guddling

I only found it after guddling about on Wikipedia for some time.

—but it pours— superversive 2008

It was a glorious sunny day, we could see the swans down in the millstream guddling around and someone had brought home made cake.

Daylight...*eek*!! Spinningfishwife 2006

It was a glorious sunny day, we could see the swans down in the millstream guddling around and someone had brought home made cake.

Archive 2006-12-01 Spinningfishwife 2006

This consisted of a screen obsc~iring the surgeon and his 'guddling about', as Sarah described it, from the conscious patient's view.

Quite Ugly One Morning Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 1996

He could, of course, have done the whole thing easily, but anything so earthy as guddling round inside a ewe was anathema to him.

Every living thing Herriot, James 1992

He was a round-cheeked boy again, smothering his kitten in his pinafore, prattling of Red Riding Hood by his school-mistress's knee, and guddling in the brook for minnows.

Better Dead 1898

He would not have dared to speak to Ralph on any other occasion, but guddling, like curling, loosens the tongue.

The Lilac Sunbonnet 1887

This was indeed our chief pleasure and business; and not only to save our meal against worse times, but with a rivalry that much amused us, we spent a great part of our days at the water-side, stripped to the waist and groping about or (as they say) guddling for these fish.

Kidnapped: The Adventures of David Balfour 1886

To paraphrase Guido, Danny, don't think trench warfare, guddling about in the mud at your foe's behest.

British Blogs 2010

To paraphrase Guido, Danny, don't think trench warfare, guddling about in the mud at your foe's behest.

British Blogs 2010