toddling
present participle oftoddle
toddle
verb[I]
uk/ˈtɒd.əl/us/ˈtɑː.dəl/(especiallyof ayoungchild) towalkwithshortsteps,tryingtokeepthebodybalanced:
Iwatchedmy two-year-oldnephewtoddling around after hispuppy.
UKinformal
towalksomewhere:
I'm just toddlingoff/roundto theshops.
Moving unsteadily or with difficulty
- blunder
- bumble
- dodder
- dodderer
- doddery
- have two left feetidiom
- hobble
- limp
- lollop
- lumber
- lurch
- reel
- shuffle
- squeeze
- stumble
- toddle
- toil
- totter
- tottering
- trip(someone)up
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In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
There are remote seaside resorts and country villages with childrentoddlingabout with gas masks from schoolroom to playground and back.
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I wenttoddlingaway with pride to the school 1¼ miles away to start a great scholastic career.
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Our steps aretoddling, and we have a long way to go and a lot to learn.
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Then, when he reaches thetoddlingstage, he has the nursery school.
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Global warming is too important an issue to be dealt with at such atoddlingpace.
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I imagine that she would have received general instructions from the qualified pharmacist not to serve any young children who cometoddlinginto the shop.
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He is still in the crawling or perhapstoddlingstage.
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Gone are the days of thetoddlingtot, the days of milk-teeth and tonsils.
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