toddle

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_ Ever since I could toddle, my conduct's been model,

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  1. intransitive verb To walk with short, unsteady steps.
  2. intransitive verb To walk leisurely; stroll.
  3. noun An unsteady gait.

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  • She hints at handing over the reins of Home from the Sea to us as soon as her grandson can toddle, and of taking a back seat, presumably the electric one. —  Asimov's Science Fiction, March 2002
  • It was unreasonable; Bass had heard stories of saintly children who walked the road of righteousness before they could toddle, and communed with their angels only to receive praise, but he had never met one—they must be extremely rare. —  Thrilling Wonder Stories April, 1953
  • Wisconsin Supreme Court race pits the chief vs. a conservative Gretchen and I were watching our granddaughter, Ella, who just turned 1, toddle around her home in Colorado as we sat in our living room here.
  • I remember chasing you up and down the aisle at the grocery store when you were two, how the hair in your pigtails would flop up and down to the rhythm of your unstable toddle. —  dooce® main feed
  • Since I don't have any children of my own, I tend to not understand the importance of toddle-gear. —  Gizmodiva.com
 

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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Origin unknown.

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  1. A variant of tottle, perhaps influenced by some association with waddle: see tottle.
  2. from toddle, v.
 

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