WADDLING

Definition: WADDLING

WADDLING

Personal pronoun & verb & noun

1. Of Waddle

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "WADDLING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Synonym: WADDLING

Synonym by domain: waddling gait (medicine).

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Crosswords: WADDLING

English words defined with "WADDLING": Duck-legged ♦ waddle, waddler, Waddlingly. (references)

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Photo Album: WADDLING

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Laysan ducks waddling through their dinner of Laysan flies.Credit: NOAA's Ark (Animals).
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: WADDLING

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Symptoms, which vary in type and severity, may include a drooping of one or both eyelids (ptosis), blurred or double vision (diplopia) due to weakness of the muscles that control eye movements, unstable or waddling gait, weakness in arms, hands, fingers, legs, and neck, a change in facial expression, difficulty in swallowing and shortness of breath, and impaired speech (dysarthria). (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: WADDLING

"WADDLING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 80.95% of the time. "WADDLING" is used about 21 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (-ing form)	80.95%	17	85,106
Adjective (general or positive)	9.52%	2	245,945
Noun (proper)	4.76%	1	339,140
Noun (singular)	4.76%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	21	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: WADDLING

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
dog waddling	3
quality inn waddling dog	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: WADDLING

Language		Translations for "WADDLING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		vraltende gang (waddling gait). (various references)

French		claudication ansérine (waddling gait). (various references)

German		watschelnd (shambling). (various references)

Hebrew		ברווז. (various references)

Italian		andatura anserina (waddling gait). (various references)

Manx		sprangagh (asymmetric, disproportionate, irregular, knock-kneed, leggy, non-uniform, shuffling, waddle), leaystagh (hesitant, nodding, oscillatory, reeling, rocking, swinging, vibrant, wavering). (various references)

Pig Latin		addlingway

Vietnamese		núng nính, đi lạch bạch. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: WADDLING

Derivations
	Words ending with "WADDLING": swaddling, twaddling. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"WADDLING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: widdling. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: WADDLING

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: dawdling.
	Words within the letters "a-d-d-g-i-l-n-w"
	-1 letter: addling, wadding.
	-2 letters: adding, dawing, lading, lawing, ligand, wading, waling.
	-3 letters: algid, algin, align, awing, diwan, gaddi, gadid, gland, liang, ligan, linga, nidal, wigan.
	-4 letters: agin, anil, dang, dawn, dial, ding, gadi, gain, gild, glad, glia, gnaw, laid, lain, land, lang, lawn, ling, nail, wadi, wail, wain, wand, wild, wind, wing.
	-5 letters: add, aid, ail.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-d-g-i-l-n-w"
	+1 letter: swaddling, twaddling.
	+3 letters: downloading.
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