daddling

Verb

daddle (third-person singular simple present daddles, present participle daddling, simple past and past participle daddled)

1. (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.1869, Thomas Collins, The life of the rev. Thos. Collins
2. 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...1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC

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