Waddle \Wad"dle\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Waddled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Waddling}.] [Freq. of wade; cf. AS. w[ae]dlian to beg, from wadan to go. See {Wade}.] To walk with short steps, swaying the body from one side to the other, like a duck or very fat person; to move clumsily and totteringly along; to toddle; to stumble; as, a child waddles when he begins to walk; a goose waddles. --Shak.
She drawls her words, and waddles in her pace. --Young.
Waddle \Wad"dle\, v. t. To trample or tread down, as high grass, by walking through it. [R.] --Drayton.
The boys often had a tough time keeping a straight face when campus cutup John Uhler Lemmon III deftly mimicked the head's portentous waddle.
In addition to her other symbolic burdens Qiu Ju must waddle across China carrying the country's future inside her?