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mispaddling

mispaddling is the present participle and gerund of mispaddle.

Meaning of mispaddle

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

Questions about mispaddling

What is mispaddling the present participle and gerund of?
Mispaddling is the present participle and gerund of mispaddle.

Words near mispaddling in the dictionary

  1. mispacking
  2. mispacks
  3. mispaddle
  4. mispaddled
  5. mispaddles
  6. mispaddling
  7. mispage
  8. mispaged
  9. mispages
  10. mispaginated
  11. mispagination

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mispaddling (page history and authors); mispaddle (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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