2. Verb. To stand, lie, or move, with legs spread. ¹
3. Verb. To spread someone or something's legs. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Spraddle
1. to straddle [v -DLED, -DLING, -DLES] - See also: straddle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spraddle
Literary usage of Spraddle
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dialect Notes by American Dialect Society (1896)
"spraddle out : sprawl. To a baby : " Crawl along and spraddle out. " squander (v.
intrans.). "They jes squandered and lit out." (Cf. Introduction, Hob Roy, ..."
2. The Real Dope by Ring Lardner (1919)
"to 1 of them cripples that use to spraddle all over the walk along 85 st.
after the ball game and stick my heel in their eye and romp off with their days ..."
3. The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine (1911)
"... the proud child on his way home to spraddle Creek, and brought him back with
difficulty. His silence in this instance was characteristic : he never ..."
4. Arthur Hugh Clough by James Insley Osborne (1920)
"Many a man found it desirable to spraddle, and stretched himself out with one
foot, say, on Late Byzantium and the other on Early Judaea, his left hand on ..."
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