toddler n.
1. a walker, a pedestrian.
![]() | New Dict. Cant (1795) n.p.: town todlers silly fellows, frequently taken-in by sharpers playing at different games. | |
![]() | Key to the Picture of the Fancy going to a Fight 18: The Toddlers are chevying him [i.e. a dandy on horseback] in prime twig. | |
![]() | Real Life in London I 559: I’m d—d if he was not up to slum, and he whiddied their wattles with the velvet, and floored the town toddlers easy enough. | |
![]() | Annals of Sporting 1 May 361/2: Chaff-cutting was the order of the day among the toddlers. | |
![]() | Bk of Sports 199: The arrival of [...] lots of toddlers, all out of breath to arrive in time to see the mill. | |
![]() | Era (London) 5 Dec. 11/3: Carriages, coaches, tandems, gigs, and horsemen, the ‘toddlers’ being as scarce as our present commercial demands. | |
![]() | Bell’s Life in Sydney 20 Mar. 2/6: The todlers [sic] who were rather late had some difficulty in working their way to the arena. | |
![]() | Fights for the Championship 117: The rain descended in torrents [...] soaking many of the ‘toddlers’ to the skin. | |
![]() | Ring Nov. 10: toddlers--Pedestrians. | in
2. (also toddle) a foot; often in pl.
![]() | Life in London (1869) 278: Bill, at length, released the donkey’s toddler out of trouble. | |
![]() | Exeter & Plymouth Gaz. 23 June 3/2: The man stood firm on his toddlers. | |
![]() | Modern Flash Dict. 33: Toddlers – legs. | |
![]() | Flash Dict. in Sinks of London Laid Open [as cit. 1835]. | |
![]() | New and Improved Flash Dict. n.p.: Toddles legs. |