dackle

English

Etymology

Compare dacker (“walk slowly”), and perhaps compare German dackeln (“to walk slowly”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈdækəl/, /ˈdeɪkəl/

Verb

dackle (third-person singular simple present dackles, present participle dackling, simple past and past participle dackled)

  1. (chiefly Scotland) To slacken pace; to hesitate.
    • 1869, William Knight, Auld yule, and other poems (ed. by W. Lindsay), page 225:
      Sometimes we ran, sometimes we gaed; Whiles dackled on the way.
    • 1988, British Homing World, page 53:
      The two kits said 'hi' in the passing and never dackled, just kept going their own way.
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