"striddle" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: striddles [present, singular, third-person], striddling [participle, present], striddled [participle, past], striddled [past]
Etymology: 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). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|striden}} Middle English striden, {{cog|en|stride}} English stride, {{inh|en|ang|strīdan}} Old English strīdan, {{inh|en|gmw-pro|*strīdan}} Proto-West Germanic *strīdan, {{inh|en|gem-pro|*strīdaną}} Proto-Germanic *strīdaną, {{suf|en|stride|le|id2=verbal frequentative|pos2=frequentative suffix}} stride + -le (frequentative suffix) Head templates: {{en-verb}} striddle (third-person singular simple present striddles, present participle striddling, simple past and past participle striddled)
  1. (dialectal, Scotland, Northern England) To straddle. Tags: Northern-England, Scotland, dialectal

Inflected forms

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