Toddle
verb
To walk unsteadily, like a young child.
The baby has just learnt to toddle, so she is a bit unstable.
Often appears as...
- toddle around
- toddle off
verb
To move slowly, casually or leisurely.
On Sunday mornings, I like to get up and toddle down to the local cafe for breakfast.
Often appears as...
- toddle off
- toddle away
verb
To walk unsteadily, like a young child.
The baby has just learnt to toddle, so she is a bit unstable.
Often appears as...
- toddle around
- toddle off
verb
To move slowly, casually or leisurely.
On Sunday mornings, I like to get up and toddle down to the local cafe for breakfast.
Often appears as...
- toddle off
- toddle away
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Pro Tip 1/3Childlike Walking
Used when describing how small children walk when they're first learning.
Look at him toddle across the living room.
Pro Tip 2/3Unsteady Movement
Conveys a sense of instability, often with a charming or cute connotation.
She toddled toward us, clutching her teddy bear.
Pro Tip 3/3Figurative Use
Sometimes used figuratively to describe adults doing something with childlike enthusiasm or clumsiness.
He'll toddle off to the garage, happy as a kid.
Pro Tip 1/3Childlike Walking
Used when describing how small children walk when they're first learning.
Look at him toddle across the living room.
Pro Tip 2/3Unsteady Movement
Conveys a sense of instability, often with a charming or cute connotation.
She toddled toward us, clutching her teddy bear.
Pro Tip 3/3Figurative Use
Sometimes used figuratively to describe adults doing something with childlike enthusiasm or clumsiness.
He'll toddle off to the garage, happy as a kid.
Pro Tip 1/3Childlike Walking
Used when describing how small children walk when they're first learning.
Look at him toddle across the living room.
Pro Tip 2/3Unsteady Movement
Conveys a sense of instability, often with a charming or cute connotation.
She toddled toward us, clutching her teddy bear.
Pro Tip 3/3Figurative Use
Sometimes used figuratively to describe adults doing something with childlike enthusiasm or clumsiness.
He'll toddle off to the garage, happy as a kid.
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Introducing a New Baby...
down the road you know there's a little a little toddle down the road in the car however that will can take you that portion can take you four hours five hours due to the nature of the roads the roads down to the Mara leave quite a lot to be desired especially after its
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"Good" and "bad" are...
but then I saw her reaching for something that her eye had been on all a black electric cord. She was a year old. Other babies her age were for sure pulling up to stand and toddling around, some of them.
Video examples
Introducing a New Baby...
down the road you know there's a little a little toddle down the road in the car however that will can take you that portion can take you four hours five hours due to the nature of the roads the roads down to the Mara leave quite a lot to be desired especially after its
Video examples
"Good" and "bad" are...
but then I saw her reaching for something that her eye had been on all a black electric cord. She was a year old. Other babies her age were for sure pulling up to stand and toddling around, some of them.
Example 1 of 2
Quote examples
Clare Rewcastle Brown
British Journalist
In the end I got a major newspaper in South East Asia to buy a whistleblower's account for a ludicrous bunch of money. Off I toddled, published the story, which the newspaper didn't dare do in the end and then of course I was unleashed into a rollercoaster of denial and backlash.
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Seth Shostak
American Scientist
Some pundits have proposed that the aliens have come here to breed with us. Apparently, too much bike riding or something similar has rendered them incapable of reproducing within their own species. But do extraterrestrial infants toddle through your neighborhood?
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Kenneth Branagh
Irish Actor
I saw Derek Jacobi play Hamlet when I was 17, and he directed me as Hamlet when I was 27, and I directed him as Claudius in 'Hamlet' when I was 35, and I'm hoping we meet again in some other production of Hamlet before we both toddle off.
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Cherie Lunghi
English Actress
I ski every three years or so. I don't have the ingrained confidence that others do, but I'll happily toddle about a green or blue run.
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Billy Strayhorn
American Composer
My grandmother played the piano, and I used to toddle over there and pick out little things that sounded good to me.
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George Eliot
British Author
A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.
Quote examples
Clare Rewcastle Brown
British Journalist
In the end I got a major newspaper in South East Asia to buy a whistleblower's account for a ludicrous bunch of money. Off I toddled, published the story, which the newspaper didn't dare do in the end and then of course I was unleashed into a rollercoaster of denial and backlash.
Quote examples
Seth Shostak
American Scientist
Some pundits have proposed that the aliens have come here to breed with us. Apparently, too much bike riding or something similar has rendered them incapable of reproducing within their own species. But do extraterrestrial infants toddle through your neighborhood?
Quote examples
Kenneth Branagh
Irish Actor
I saw Derek Jacobi play Hamlet when I was 17, and he directed me as Hamlet when I was 27, and I directed him as Claudius in 'Hamlet' when I was 35, and I'm hoping we meet again in some other production of Hamlet before we both toddle off.
Quote examples
Cherie Lunghi
English Actress
I ski every three years or so. I don't have the ingrained confidence that others do, but I'll happily toddle about a green or blue run.
Quote examples
Billy Strayhorn
American Composer
My grandmother played the piano, and I used to toddle over there and pick out little things that sounded good to me.
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George Eliot
British Author
A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.
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