toddle

present singular third person toddles · participle present toddling · participle past toddled · past toddled

1. To walk unsteadily, as a small child does.

   Rory would never have believed that his half-hour had been a twelvemonth, "did not the calves grown now into stots, and the new-born babes now toddling about the house, at length convince him that in his single reel he had danced for a twelvemonth and a day."

   1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 387

2. To walk or travel in a carefree manner.

   There he was, just toddling along.

   1 more example

   So off we toddled, Marjorie, Holt, and I, in a growler, — spotted the crib in less than no time, — invited ourselves in by the kitchen window — house seemed empty.

   1897, Richard Marsh, The Beetle

plural toddles

1. A carefree or aimless gait; a stroll.