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Definition of Daddle
1. v. i. To toddle; to walk unsteadily, like a child or an old man; hence, to do anything slowly or feebly.
Definition of Daddle
1. Verb. (intransitive archaic or dialectal) To walk unsteadily; totter; dawdle ¹
2. Verb. To diddle (cheat) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Daddle
1. to diddle [v -DLED, -DLING, -DLES] - See also: diddle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Daddle
Literary usage of Daddle
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Teaching and Teachers: Or, The Sunday-school Teacher's Teaching Work and the by Henry Clay Trumbull (1884)
"daddle, daddle." A good start. ought to be so. ... Charley," she began," say '
daddle, daddle.' " Charley at once responded with " daddle, daddle. ..."
2. The Reliquary and Illustrated Archaeologist,: A Quarterly Journal and Review edited by Llewellyn Frederick William Jewitt, John Charles Cox, John Romilly Allen (1868)
"daddle-i-day, &c. It dragged upon the ground, It was sold in Darby town, Sir,
... daddle-i-day, &c. Were like a regiment of men ; And the tongue that hung ..."
3. Woods and Dales of Derbyshire by James Samuel Stone (1893)
"daddle-i-day, etc. The wool upon his back, sir, Reached up into the sky ...
daddle-i-day, etc. The space between his horns, sir, Was as far as a man could ..."
4. A Dictionary of English Etymology by Hensleigh Wedgwood (1872)
"To daddle and drink, to be continually tippling, as to paddle in Devon to ...
Then, perhaps from the wavering of an agitated liquid, to daddle is to walk ..."
5. The Ballads & Songs of Derbyshire: With Illustrative Notes, and Examples of by Llewellyn Frederick William Jewitt (1867)
"daddle-i-day, &c. The Wool upon his belly, Sir, It dragged upon the ground ...
daddle-i-day, &c. The space between his horns, Sir, Was as far as a man could ..."
6. The Ballads & Songs of Derbyshire: With Illustrative Notes, and Examples of by Llewellyn Frederick William Jewitt (1867)
"daddle-i-day, &c. The Wool upon his belly, Sir, It dragged upon the ground ...
daddle-i-day, &c. The space between his horns, Sir, Was as far as a man could ..."
7. The Journal of American Folk-lore by American Folklore Society (1917)
"Raddle daddle, etc. 4. "Will you forsake your house and lands? Will you forsake
your baby? ... Raddle daddle, etc. 5. " I care not for my house and lands? ..."
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