Synonyms for toddle

Grammar : Verb

Spell : tod-l

Phonetic Transcription : ˈtɒd l

Définition of toddle

Origin : "to run or walk with short, unsteady steps," c.1600, Scottish and northern British, of uncertain origin, possibly related to totter (1530s); an earlier sense of "to toy, play" is found c.1500. Related: Toddled; toddling.

verb walk unsteadily

Example sentences :

I call him Toddle because that's about all he can do in the way of a walk.
Extract from : « Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue in the Sunny South » by Laura Lee Hope

Let's toddle along and see what Fu Manchu has to say for himself.
Extract from : « Greener Than You Think » by Ward Moore

You say well, Haimet, it was before your day; you were only beginning to toddle about when he died.
Extract from : « One Snowy Night » by Emily Sarah Holt

She had from the time she could toddle around been constantly with her father.
Extract from : « Fighting the Traffic in Young Girls » by Various

He was the youngest of us, and could just toddle when Bill went away.
Extract from : « The Two Whalers » by W.H.G. Kingston

At the time, baby was quite able to walk—at least to waddle or toddle.
Extract from : « The Buffalo Runners » by R.M. Ballantyne

I felt just as, I suppose, an infant does on his first trying to toddle.
Extract from : « Paddy Finn » by W. H. G. Kingston

And how the old man did rejoice when the little thing could toddle into his pantry!
Extract from : « Amos Huntingdon » by T.P. Wilson

He has served me ever since he was able to toddle and I have yet to find the first serious fault in him.
Extract from : « Dorothy's House Party » by Evelyn Raymond

We may toddle to the altar yet, I said hysterically, when you are about eighty and I am seventy.
Extract from : « The Romance of His Life » by Mary Cholmondeley

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