daddle

daddle
a) To walk unsteadily; totter; dawdle

I had to wait an hour at the station for the coming of his train. It was passed pleasantly in reading, The Victory Won, an interesting narrative of the salvation of a sceptical physician. When uncle arrived, he and I daddled along a pretty narrow lane.

b) To diddle (cheat)

"Thunder!" he cried. "A week! I cant do that; theyd have the black spot on me by then. The lubbers is going about to get the wind of me this blessed moment; lubbers as couldnt keep what they got, and want to nail what is anothers. Is that seamanly behavior, now, I want to know? But Im a saving soul. I never wasted good money of mine, nor lost it neither; and Ill trick em again. Im not afraid on em. Ill shake out another reef, matey, and daddle em again."


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  • Daddling — Daddle Dad dle (d[a^]d d l), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Daddled}, p. pr. & vb. n. {Daddling}.] [Prob. freq. of dade.] To toddle; to walk unsteadily, like a child or an old man; hence, to do anything slowly or feebly. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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