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Word Of The Week (WOW #25)

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Hi guys!

Word Of the Week (WOW) is a weekly meme created by Heena Rathore P. (me.) It’s a fun way to improve one’s vocabulary by learning new words every week. If you want to participate then simply do a post with your WORD and leave the link to your post as a comment on one of my WOW post.

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Here’s the WOW for this week :

WOW-6

Word:

Waddle

Part Of Speech:

Verb 

Derivatives:

Waddler: noun

Pronunciation:

|ˈwɒd(ə)l| ; wad·dle

Meaning:

Walk with short steps and a clumsy swaying motion.

To walk with short steps swinging the forepart of the body from side to side

To move clumsily in a manner suggesting a waddle

Synonyms:

Toddle, totter, shamble, dodder, wobble.

Antonyms:

None.

Word Origin:

Late 16th century: perhaps a frequentative of wade.

Use In Sentence:

  • Three geese waddled across the road.duck-waddle
  • I walk with a waddle.pregnancy+waddle
  • Penguins are waddling.giphy-2

I hope you guys like this word and hope it’s useful to you in some or the other way! If you want to check out more words like this, then visit my page:

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51 responses to “Word Of The Week (WOW #25)”

  1. Rajagopal Avatar
    Rajagopal

    Just visualized you with the penguins in the pic, daintily waddling…best wishes, heena….

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    1. Heena Rathore P. Avatar
      Heena Rathore P.

      Haha! You always have something funny to say!

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  2. Erika Kind Avatar
    Erika Kind

    I love that sweet word.

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    1. Heena Rathore P. Avatar
      Heena Rathore P.

      Me too… Hehe!

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      1. Erika Kind Avatar
        Erika Kind

        😊

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  3. Heena Rathore P. Avatar
    Heena Rathore P.

    Thanks 🙂

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  4. The V-Pub Avatar
    The V-Pub

    I’ve been known to waddle after one beer too much. 😀

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    1. Heena Rathore P. Avatar
      Heena Rathore P.

      Hahah! Me too 😉

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  5. stacilys Avatar
    stacilys

    Oh yes. Waddle is a great word. Pregnant women often waddle too. 🙂
    Have a great weekend Heena.
    🙂

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    1. Heena Rathore P. Avatar
      Heena Rathore P.

      Thanks a lot Staci 🙂 Yea, they do that a lot, hehe!
      You too have a gloriously positive weekend ❤

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      1. stacilys Avatar
        stacilys

        🙂

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  6. e Avatar
    e

    This made me smile! I meant to you I periodically started tweeting favorite words with a hashtag I made up and finagled!! #SapioLexophile

    ☺️☺️☺️☺️

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    1. Heena Rathore P. Avatar
      Heena Rathore P.

      Thanks e!
      And that’s a great idea 🙂

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      1. e Avatar
        e

        Yay! Thx!

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  7. milliethom Avatar
    milliethom

    I love your illustrations for this word, Heena. It’s a great word, too. 🙂

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    1. Heena Rathore P. Avatar
      Heena Rathore P.

      Thanks a lot Millie 🙂

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      1. milliethom Avatar
        milliethom

        I’m just doing my WOW at the moment, so will be posting it later on. 🙂

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        1. Heena Rathore P. Avatar
          Heena Rathore P.

          Sweet! I’ll check out your last 2-3 WOW together only then… Time management… hehe!

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  9. milliethom Avatar
    milliethom

    Hello again, Heena. Just to let you know that I’ve now posted my WOW for this week. Here is the link:
    https://milliethom.wordpress.com/2015/07/11/word-of-the-week-wow-whirligig/

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    1. Heena Rathore P. Avatar
      Heena Rathore P.

      Thanks Millie! ☺

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  11. afairymind Avatar
    afairymind

    I love the waddling penguins! Great word, Heena. Here’s my WOW – I’m afraid I’ve fallen a week behind. I’m only at V. 🙂 https://thestorytellersabode.wordpress.com/2015/07/11/wow-variegated/

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    1. Heena Rathore P. Avatar
      Heena Rathore P.

      Thanks dear!
      No worries, I missed last week’s as well!

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  12. priyalovingly Avatar
    priyalovingly

    https://crazykidjournal.wordpress.com/2015/07/12/word-of-the-week-wow-12th-july2015/
    my wow for the week

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  14. milliethom Avatar
    milliethom

    Hello again Heena. I’ve now done my WOW for last week (word beginning with X) and here’s the link:
    https://milliethom.wordpress.com/2015/07/20/word-of-the-week-wow-xenolith/

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    1. Heena Rathore P. Avatar
      Heena Rathore P.

      Thanks for the link Millie, I missed last weeks’s WOW. I was not well 😦
      But I’ll be doing this week’s sometime today 🙂
      have a great day!

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      1. milliethom Avatar
        milliethom

        Sorry to hear you were ill, Heena. That’s all you need on top of all the work you’ve got to do. Hope you’re feeling much better now. 🙂

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        1. Heena Rathore P. Avatar
          Heena Rathore P.

          I’m feeling a lot better now, thanks 🙂
          I’m horribly behind my planned schedule and I guess tis weekend I’ll have to get everything straight.
          Writing a book requires so much discipline! I guess I’ll be needing 2 more weeks to get the rough editing down for my second draft.
          If you have some words of wisdom and advice for what should I do after the second corrected draft then please share! I’m really on the edge of completing my book and I’m starting to get panicked now (it’s a huge task to find a decent editor in India 😦 )
          If you know any editor who can help me edit my book (for a reasonable price) then please let me know 🙂
          Have a great day!

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          1. milliethom Avatar
            milliethom

            I know how stressful the whole process is! As for editing your own drafts, there’s so much advice out there, much of it conflicting. Some people suggest self-editing multiple drafts before sending off to an editor. I’m not sure how many times I went though my Book 1 because I spent ages at first changing it from a fantasy to a straight historical fiction. Have you used beta readers? (I didn’t and won’t for my third book – but that’s just my way. I prefer to send it straight to my editor.)
            The editor I use is cheaper than many, but I’m not sure what you’d consider a reasonable price. He charges £295 for up to 80,000 words and £375 for up to a 100,000. Both of my books were a little over 100,000. He’s very thorough with both line editing and overall critique. His website really needs updating, so may not be appealing to you, but he’s lovely to work with. He’s my age, with a lot of experience behind him. I think he’ll do most genres, but not poetry. If you want to contact him, I can give you his email address. Take care, Heena. It sounds as though you need a good break. Millie 🙂

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            1. Heena Rathore P. Avatar
              Heena Rathore P.

              Haha! Yea, I can definitely do with a long, long break! But I want to revise my second draft before the break… Thanks a lot for sharing about your way of going about the whole process.
              Yes, I’m going to have my book read by beta readers – 2 of them, one of them is a really good friend and the other one is a beta reader . I want to be sure before approaching the publishers as this is actually the first time I’ve written more than a couple hundred words (lol!)
              And sure, please send me the email address of your editor. I’m going to send the sample chapters to the agents here first, if I’ll get accepted by an agent and then a publisher then I won’t be getting the book edited on my own, but if I’ll have to consider self-publishing, I’ll contact him then. Thanks you so much 🙂
              I’m almost there and I can already feel how tiring all this really is, I’ll be starting on my second book in NaNoWriMo November… hehe! I’m enjoying writing stories so much that I already have another 2 forming in my mind! lol!
              I’m feeling so much better after talking to you Millie, I was feeling so overwhelmed that was almost on the point of loosing the hope just two days ago, but now I feel so much better ❤
              Thanks again Millie, you are the best 😀

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              1. milliethom Avatar
                milliethom

                Well, if my words can help you to feel better, I’m really pleased. Writing can be stressful, and self-doubt plays a big part in it. I admire the fact that you’re sticking out for the traditional publishing route, too. If you can break into that, you’ll certainly have help with editing! As you say, writing can also be great fun. I put a quote about writing on my ‘3 Quote Challenge’ a while ago that covers it so well:
                ‘When it’s goung badly it’s like giving birth to a baby elephant. When it’s going well, it’s like reaching up to the stars.’ (by David Eddings, American fantasy writer, who died in 2009). I always think of that quote when I’m having my ups and downs. All writers have them.
                I’ll send my editor’s email address, but I hope you don’t need it! Happy writing… ❤

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                1. Heena Rathore P. Avatar
                  Heena Rathore P.

                  Such a beautiful quote! It says it all 🙂
                  Thanks a lot! You can mail me his email address on my personal mail address: rathoreheena@gmail.com
                  Talking to you really helped me get back on the track… so thanks for that as well! I’m so glad to have met you (virtually) through our blogs 🙂
                  Have a glorious day!!! 🙂

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                  1. milliethom Avatar
                    milliethom

                    I’m very glad to have ‘met’ you, too, Heena. Once I get back home, I’ll email you. (I’m away for the week up at Hadrian’s Wall in Northumberland – taking lots of photos for a post. 🙂

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                    1. Heena Rathore P. Avatar
                      Heena Rathore P.

                      No problem Millie. Please take your time.
                      And, wow! I’looking forward to seeing all those photos.
                      Have a great time! 🙂

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                    2. milliethom Avatar
                      milliethom

                      Thank you! )D

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  16. milliethom Avatar
    milliethom

    Hi Heena. Here’s the link for my latest WOW post:
    https://milliethom.wordpress.com/2015/07/27/word-of-week-wow-yammer/
    Hope all is well with you. 🙂

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    1. Heena Rathore P. Avatar
      Heena Rathore P.

      Thanks a lot Millie!
      Yea, things are getting back on track slowly…
      I hope everything’s fine at your end as well 😀

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  18. afairymind Avatar
    afairymind

    Here’s the link to my new WOW post: https://thestorytellersabode.wordpress.com/2015/07/27/wow-widdershins/

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    1. Heena Rathore P. Avatar
      Heena Rathore P.

      Thanks a lot Louise! 🙂

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