Synonyms for toddle


Grammar : Verb
Spell : tod-l
Phonetic Transcription : ˈtɒd l


Définition of toddle

Origin :
  • "to run or walk with short, unsteady steps," c.1600, Scottish and northern British, of uncertain origin, possibly related to totter (1530s); an earlier sense of "to toy, play" is found c.1500. Related: Toddled; toddling.
  • verb walk unsteadily
Example sentences :
  • I call him Toddle because that's about all he can do in the way of a walk.
  • Extract from : « Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue in the Sunny South » by Laura Lee Hope
  • Let's toddle along and see what Fu Manchu has to say for himself.
  • Extract from : « Greener Than You Think » by Ward Moore
  • You say well, Haimet, it was before your day; you were only beginning to toddle about when he died.
  • Extract from : « One Snowy Night » by Emily Sarah Holt
  • She had from the time she could toddle around been constantly with her father.
  • Extract from : « Fighting the Traffic in Young Girls » by Various
  • He was the youngest of us, and could just toddle when Bill went away.
  • Extract from : « The Two Whalers » by W.H.G. Kingston
  • At the time, baby was quite able to walk—at least to waddle or toddle.
  • Extract from : « The Buffalo Runners » by R.M. Ballantyne
  • I felt just as, I suppose, an infant does on his first trying to toddle.
  • Extract from : « Paddy Finn » by W. H. G. Kingston
  • And how the old man did rejoice when the little thing could toddle into his pantry!
  • Extract from : « Amos Huntingdon » by T.P. Wilson
  • He has served me ever since he was able to toddle and I have yet to find the first serious fault in him.
  • Extract from : « Dorothy's House Party » by Evelyn Raymond
  • We may toddle to the altar yet, I said hysterically, when you are about eighty and I am seventy.
  • Extract from : « The Romance of His Life » by Mary Cholmondeley

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