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mispaddle

mispaddle verb: to paddle incorrectly.

Verb

mispaddle (third-person singular simple present mispaddles, present participle mispaddling, simple past and past participle mispaddled)

  1. To paddle incorrectly.
    • “Whoa!” Emory said, looking at Hamilton on the wave. “Did you see that? Laird leaned forward. He mispaddled. He almost fell!”2010, Susan Casey, The Wave: In Pursuit of the Ocean's Greatest Furies, page 237
    • 'Oh my, I'm all over the shop,' said Mhairi, as she mispaddled into a tangle of mangroves at one point, and stiff grey fingers dangling above quested for root space in her hair.2011, Lucy Irvine, Faraway

Forms of mispaddle

third-person singular presentmispaddles
present participlemispaddling
past participlemispaddled
pastmispaddled

Origin of mispaddle

From mis- + paddle.

Questions about mispaddle

What does mispaddle mean?
Mispaddle means to paddle incorrectly.
What part of speech is mispaddle?
Mispaddle is a verb.
What is the past tense of mispaddle?
The past tense of mispaddle is mispaddled.

Words near mispaddle in the dictionary

  1. mispackages
  2. mispackaging
  3. mispacked
  4. mispacking
  5. mispacks
  6. mispaddle
  7. mispaddled
  8. mispaddles
  9. mispaddling
  10. mispage
  11. mispaged

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