striddle
English
Etymology
Frequentative of Middle English striden (whence stride), from Old English strīdan, from Proto-Germanic *strīdaną. Equivalent to stride + -le.
Verb
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- (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.
- 1890, George Manville Fenn, Cormorant Crag:
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