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daddle^¹

/ˈdædəɫ/ UK

verb daddles · daddling · daddled · dadle · dauldle

archaic, dialectal, intransitive 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.
To diddle (cheat) "Thunder!" he cried. "A week! I can't do that; they'd have the black spot on me by then. The lubbers is going about to get the wind of me this blessed moment; lubbers as couldn't keep what they got, and want to nail what is another's. Is that seamanly behavior, now, I want to know? But I'm a saving

daddle^²

/ˈdædəɫ/ UK

noun daddles

obsolete, slang The hand or fist; used in the phrase "tip us your daddle" meaning "give me your hand".

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@misc{daddle_2026,
  title = {daddle},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/daddle},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}