Word.ws English Dictionary

paddlecock

paddlecock noun: the lumpfish.

Noun

paddlecock (plural paddlecocks)

  1. (UK, dialectal) The lumpfish.
    Synonyms:
    cockpaddle

Synonyms of paddlecock

Forms of paddlecock

pluralpaddlecocks

Questions about paddlecock

What does paddlecock mean?
Paddlecock means the lumpfish.
What part of speech is paddlecock?
Paddlecock is a noun.
What is the plural of paddlecock?
The plural of paddlecock is paddlecocks.

Words near paddlecock in the dictionary

  1. paddleboater
  2. paddleboaters
  3. paddleboats
  4. paddlebox
  5. paddleboxes
  6. paddlecock
  7. paddlecocks
  8. paddlecraft
  9. paddled
  10. paddled one's own canoe
  11. paddlefeet

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: paddlecock (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “paddlecock.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/paddlecock. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.