striddle
To straddle.
Verb
- To straddle.
- I'm going along like a lame duck striddling a gutter. - 1890, George Manville Fenn, Cormorant Crag:
Origin
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).