Word Meanings - WADDLINGLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
In a waddling manner.
Related words: (words related to WADDLINGLY)
- MANNERIST
One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism. - MANNERISM
Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art. Mannerism is pardonable,and is sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural - WADDLE
To walk with short steps, swaying the body from one side to the other, like a duck or very fat person; to move clumsily and totteringly along; to toddle; to stumble; as, a child waddles when he begins to walk; a goose waddles. Shak. She drawls her - WADDLINGLY
In a waddling manner. - MANNERLINESS
The quality or state of being mannerly; civility; complaisance. Sir M. Hale. - MANNERED
1. Having a certain way, esp a. polite way, of carrying and conducting one's self. Give her princely training, that she may be Mannered as she is born. Shak. 2. Affected with mannerism; marked by excess of some characteristic peculiarity. His style - MANNER
manual, skillful, handy, fr. LL. manarius, for L. manuarius 1. Mode of action; way of performing or effecting anything; method; style; form; fashion. The nations which thou hast removed, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not the manner - MANNERCHOR
A German men's chorus or singing club. - MANNERLY
Showing good manners; civil; respectful; complaisant. What thou thinkest meet, and is most mannerly. Shak. - WADDLER
One who, or that which, waddles. - SWADDLE
Anything used to swaddle with, as a cloth or band; a swaddling band. They put me in bed in all my swaddles. Addison. - UNMANNERLY
Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv. - SWADDLER
A term of contempt for an Irish Methodist. Shipley. - OVERMANNER
In an excessive manner; excessively. Wiclif. - SWADDLEBILL
The shoveler. - TWADDLE
To talk a weak and silly manner, like one whose faculties are decayed; to prate; to prattle. Stanyhurst. - ILL-MANNERED
Impolite; rude. - UNSWADDLE
To take a swaddle from; to unswathe. - WELL-MANNERED
Polite; well-bred; complaisant; courteous. Dryden. - TWADDLING
a. & n. from Twaddle, v. - SWADDLING
from Swaddle, v. Swaddling band, Swaddling cloth, or Swaddling clout, a band or cloth wrapped round an infant, especially round a newborn infant. Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger. Luke ii. 12. - TWADDLER
One who prates in a weak and silly manner, like one whose faculties are decayed.