soodle

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsuːdəl/
  • Rhymes: -uːdəl

Verb

soodle (third-person singular simple present soodles, present participle soodling, simple past and past participle soodled)

  1. (rare, intransitive) To walk slowly.
    • 1821, John Clare, Holywell:
      And as I soodled on and on, / The ground was warm to look upon.
    • 1934, Life and Letters and the London Mercury, volumes 11-12, page 722:
      […] 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.
    • c. 1949, W. H. Auden, Under Sirius:
      Yes, these are the dog days, Fortunatus: / The heather lies limp and dead / On the mountain, the baltering torrent / Shrunk to a soodling thread; […]

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