单词 | quaddle |
释义 | quaddlev. rare. Now English regional (south-western). intransitive. To waddle. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Anseriformes (geese, etc.) > subfamily Merginae (duck) > [verb (intransitive)] > waddle waddle1611 quaddle1662 1662 E. Stillingfleet Origines Sacræ iii. i. §16 You will presently see..the Duck quoddling into a pool. 1882 in Devonshire Verbal Provincialisms (1909) 134 Thick yeffer's a zold; he ought to a went avore; he so fat as ever her can quaddle. 1927 H. Williamson Tarka the Otter ix. 110 He quaddled down the hard mud to where Tarka was sliding into the water. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1662 |
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