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Daddle

Dad′dle

(dăd′d’l)
,
Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Daddled
,
p. pr. & vb. n.
Daddling
.]
[Prob. freq. of
dade
.]
To toddle; to walk unsteadily, like a child or an old man; hence, to do anything slowly or feebly.

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daddle

daddle

English

Verb

daddle (third-person singular simple present daddles, present participle daddling, simple past and past participle daddled)

  1. (intransitive, archaic or dialectal) To walk unsteadily; totter; dawdle
    • 1869, Thomas Collins, The life of the rev. Thos. Collins
      I had to wait an hour at the station for the coming of his train. It was passed pleasantly in reading, ' The Victory Won,' an interesting narrative of the salvation of a sceptical physician. When uncle arrived, he and I daddled along a pretty narrow lane.
  2. To diddle (cheat)
    • 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
      "Thunder!" he cried. "A week! I can't do that; they'd have the black spot on me by then. The lubbers is going about to get the wind of me this blessed moment; lubbers as couldn't keep what they got, and want to nail what is another's. Is that seamanly behavior, now, I want to know? But I'm a saving soul. I never wasted good money of mine, nor lost it neither; and I'll trick 'em again. I'm not afraid on 'em. I'll shake out another reef, matey, and daddle 'em again."

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