striddle

== English == === 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). === Verb === striddle (third-person singular simple present striddles, present participle striddling, simple past and past participle striddled) (dialectal, Scotland, Northern England) To straddle. [from mid-15th c.] === Anagrams === tiddlers