soodle

present singular third person soodles · participle present soodling · participle past soodled · past soodled

1. intransitiverareTo walk slowly.

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

   1821, John Clare, Holywell

   2 more examples

   […] 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.

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

   Yes, these are the dog days, Fortunatus: / The heather lies limp and dead / On the mountain, the baltering torrent / Shrunk to a soodling thread; […]

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