striddle
English edit
Etymology edit
Frequentative of Middle English striden (whence modern English stride), from Old English strīdan, from Proto-West Germanic *strīdan, from Proto-Germanic *strīdaną. Equivalent to stride + -le (frequentative suffix).
Verb edit
striddle (third-person singular simple present striddles, present participle striddling, simple past and past participle striddled)
- (dialectal, Scotland, Northern England) To straddle. [from mid-15th c.]
- 1890, George Manville Fenn, Cormorant Crag:
- I'm going along like a lame duck striddling a gutter.