Showing posts with label wattle. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wattle. Show all posts

Friday, February 13, 2015

waddle, wattle

Waddle or waddle means to walk with short steps, swaying or rocking from side to side--
He walks with a bit of a waddle since his last operation.
The baby is starting to walk, or rather to waddle.

Wattle or wattle means a fleshy appendage hanging from the chin of a bird, such as a turkey--
See the turkey's red wattle!
Save a scrap of red to make a wattle for the stuffed rooster.

Wattle also means the poles or sticks woven together to make a fence, or as a support for a thatched roof--
They built a cabin, and made a roof of wattle and daub.

Now that you know that, you can say--
"Wait for the turkey to waddle across the yard, and you will see his wattle swing back and forth."

Note--"what'll" is a contraction ( short, informal form ) of "what will", meaning which option or course of action--
What'll we do now?
What'll you have?