Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. One who toddles, especially a young child learning to walk.
- n. A size of clothing for children between the ages of about one and three years.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who toddles; especially, an infant or young child.
Wiktionary
- n. A quite young human being, typically two to three years old, but can refer to any child that has started walking, up to about four years old, or at the time they have mastered walking.
- n. A traffic cone.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who toddles; especially, a young child.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a young child
Etymologies
- toddle (“walk unsteadily”) + -er (“(agent)”) – literally “one who walks unsteadily”, hence a young child (not yet able to walk steadily). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“I am so tired of people acting as if my toddler is an imposition.”
Last Time I Checked, Babies Were People Too - Her Bad Mother
“I think being home and catering to a toddler is a little harder then being at work though.”
“Shopping with a toddler is a chore, no two ways about it.”
“She preferred to stand, but hey it got her to eat which for a toddler is a good thing.”
“The mother who spends all day arranging playdates for her toddler is the mother who has no time for her own dates.”
“(I think that's what he calls his toddler as a term of affection, henceforth he lubs me too).”
“Though my original project of a toddler skirt: wasn't as successful (the toddler is wearing it in the boat picture in the post below: click on the photo to see it up close), the toddler dress was a dream!”
“And the mom of sick toddler is either new in town or has forgotten the new years eve a few years back when people were disappointed that a fireworks show that was never planned (imagine the reasoning power of someone who expected a big fireworks display in Pioneer Square).”
Dave Chappelle at Pioneer Courthouse Square at midnight? (Jack Bog's Blog)
“Is there a better way to design shopping carts so that when a toddler is riding in the kids 'seat, his swinging feet are NOT in the perfect position to kick a 5'9 guy in the junk?”
“All it takes to shut down the children's play area near the food court of the Dakota Square Mall is for a certain toddler to barf on the carpet.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘toddler’.
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eggplantia5's Words
scintillate, marvel, cranberry, oscillate, triumph, bamboozle, grimace, magical, book, hexagon, cipher, compendium and 2727 more...
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cindywrites's Words
chiaroscuro, mollycoddle, feckless, evocative, provocative, invocation, beckon, allay, becalm, console, lull, soothe and 479 more...
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to acquire
moustache, thoughtcrime, lift, overall, razor, strength, oily, gin, oily gin, brotherhood, dull, toward and 108 more...
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Are we there yet?
These have some growing up to do.
colt, foal, kitten, cub, pup, heifer, larva, imago, veliger, trochophore, grub, maggot and 178 more...
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vivek's list
flibbertigibbet, droll, reticence, prelude, erinaceous, brinkmanship, depone, inaniloquent, limerance, pronk, onomatopoeia, oxymoron and 385 more...
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A Scanner Darkly (2006)
Words from a 2006 'A Scanner Darkly' film.
aphid, scramble, purport, toll, lurch, cold turkey, pharmacopoeia, vasoconstriction, inordinate, front money, meth, providence and 67 more...
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Cringe List
No. Just no.
"Slang, though humanly irreverent, tends to be inhumanly loveless. It lacks tenderness and compassion; its poetry has the effulgence of a soldier's brass buttons."
...woot, w00t, anyways, whatever, totes, booyah, sick, ill, nom, anyhoo, frickin', jeebus and 81 more...
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hazel
dimbox, flatwheeler, egg harbor, clothesline, whiskbroom, let's blouse, crabhanger, shifter, snugglepup, petting party, finale hopper, hiphound and 61 more...
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Words I hate
hibiscus, meniscus, supper, pickle, cherub, puppy, tummy, hubris, curd, plump, wheezing, bumpkin and 12 more...
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stages of life
newborn, bundle of joy, neonate, babe, nursling - A newborn infant, especially one less than four weeks old
cherub, baby, little one, infant, tot, yearling, babe in arms, papoose - a very you...newborn, bundle of joy, neonate, babe, nursling, cherub, baby, little one, infant, toddler, tween, adolescent and 21 more...
Tweets
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