📜 This word in 1898 dialectexpand
' ; shoud Abd. ; and in form showdie Abd. [Jaud.] 1. y. To swing ; to move to and fro with a swaying motion ; to waddle in walking.
Joseph Wright, English Dialect Dictionary (1898–1905)
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