soodle

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsuːdəl/
• Rhymes: -uːdəl

Verb

soodle (third-person singular simple present soodles, present participle soodling, simple past and past participle soodled)

1. (rare, intransitive) To walk slowly.
   • 1821, John Clare, Holywell:

     And as I soodled on and on, / The ground was warm to look upon.

   • 1934, Life and Letters and the London Mercury, volumes 11-12, page 722:

     […] we would gladly soodle a sloomy way home with a burred moon over us and the fern-owls chittering in the pingles and the holts.

   • c. 1949, W. H. Auden, Under Sirius:

     ...haltering torrent/ Shrunk to a soodling thread;

Anagrams

• dolose, dooles, loosed, oodles, soloed, sooled