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waddler|ˈwɒdlə(r)|
[f. waddle v. + -er1.]
A person or animal that waddles.
1828Lights & Shades II. 121 A basket containing half a dozen defunct waddlers [ducks]. 1830J. Wilson in Blackw. Mag. XXVIII. 849 A flock of those noisy waddlers [geese]. 1859Sporting Mag. July 3 Many thought Musjid [a race⁓horse] a ‘waddler’ with his hind legs. 1893Earl Dunmore Pamirs I. 143 These waddlers had waddled sufficiently.
†b. A defaulter (see waddle v. 2 d). Obs.
1831Westm. Rev. XV. 208 Were he of the Stock Exchange he would rail against waddlers and men of straw. |