mispaddle
English
Etymology
mis- + paddle
Verb
mispaddle (third-person singular simple present mispaddles, present participle mispaddling, simple past and past participle mispaddled)
- To paddle incorrectly.
- 2010, Susan Casey, The Wave: In Pursuit of the Ocean's Greatest Furies, page 237:
- “Whoa!” Emory said, looking at Hamilton on the wave. “Did you see that? Laird leaned forward. He mispaddled. He almost fell!”
- 2011, Lucy Irvine, Faraway:
- '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.
- 2012, Brian Jacques, The Bellmaker, page 91:
- Rufe mispaddled and splashed himself.