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dogpaddle
dogpaddle
See also: dog-paddle and dog paddle
English
Noun
dogpaddle (uncountable)
- Alternative form of dog paddle
- 2013, Erskine Clarke, By the Rivers of Water: A Nineteenth-Century Atlantic Odyssey
- But Leighton, like most Westerners, knew little about swimming, except for perhaps a dogpaddle, and Jane was most certainly not a swimmer.
- 2013, Erskine Clarke, By the Rivers of Water: A Nineteenth-Century Atlantic Odyssey
Verb
dogpaddle (third-person singular simple present dogpaddles, present participle dogpaddling, simple past and past participle dogpaddled)
- Alternative form of dog paddle