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scurry
English
Etymology
Perhaps from hurry-skurry, a reduplication of hurry.
Pronunciation
- enPR: sk??r(?)
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?sk??i/
- (General American) IPA(key): (with the "Hurry-furry" merger) /?sk??i/
- Rhymes: -?ri
- Hyphenation: scur?ry
Verb
scurry (third-person singular simple present scurries, present participle scurrying, simple past and past participle scurried)
- To run with quick light steps, to scamper.
- 1964, William Golding, Lord of the Flies
- Then the piglet tore loose from the creepers and scurried into the undergrowth.
- 1964, William Golding, Lord of the Flies
Synonyms
- (run with quick light steps): scamper
- (do things quickly): hurry, zoom; see also Thesaurus:rush
Derived terms
- ascurry
- scurry away
- scurry off
Translations
Noun
scurry (plural scurries)
- A dash.
- 1845, Sporting Magazine (volume 5, page 25)
- Found a fox in Deerstone, and after a great deal of music, and a scurry or two round the wood, went away over Whigford Down, but he was too far before them to make any more quick music […]
- 1845, Sporting Magazine (volume 5, page 25)
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paddle
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?pædl?/, /?pæ.d?l/
- (US) IPA(key): [?p?æ.???]
- Rhymes: -æd?l
Etymology 1
Partly from the verb paddle ("to splash, dabble"; see below) and partly from Middle English padell (“small spade”).Middle English padell is from Medieval Latin padela, itself of uncertain origin: perhaps an alteration of Middle English *spaddle (see also spaddle), a diminutive of spade; or from Latin patella (“pan, plate”), the diminutive of patina, or a merger of the two. Compare Ancient Greek ???????? (p?dálion, “rudder, steering oar”), derived from ????? (p?dós, “the blade of an oar; an oar”).
Alternative forms
- paidle (obsolete)
Noun
paddle (plural paddles)
- A two-handed, single-bladed oar used to propel a canoe or a small boat.
- A double-bladed oar used for kayaking.
- Time spent on paddling.
- A slat of a paddleboat's wheel.
- A paddlewheel.
- A blade of a waterwheel.
- (video games, dated) A game controller with a round wheel used to control player movement along one axis of the video screen.
- (Britain) A meandering walk or dabble through shallow water, especially at the seaside.
- A kitchen utensil shaped like a paddle and used for mixing, beating etc.
- A bat-shaped spanking implement.
- A ping pong bat.
- Synonym: racket
- A flat limb of an aquatic animal, adapted for swimming.
- In a sluice, a panel that controls the flow of water.
- A group of inerts.
- A handheld defibrillation/cardioversion electrode.
- (slang) hand
- (sports) Alternative form of padel
Derived terms
Descendants
- ? Danish: paddel, padle
Translations
See also
- oar
Verb
paddle (third-person singular simple present paddles, present participle paddling, simple past and past participle paddled)
- (transitive) To propel something through water with a paddle, oar, hands, etc.
- while paddling ducks the standing lake desire
- 1884: Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapter IX
- Daytimes we paddled all over the island in the canoe […]
- (intransitive) To row a boat with less than one's full capacity.
- (transitive) To spank with a paddle.
- To pat or stroke amorously or gently.
- To tread upon; to trample.
Translations
Etymology 2
Recorded since 1530, probably cognate with Low German paddeln (“to tramp about”), frequentative form of padjen (“to tramp, run in short steps”), from pad (also in Dutch dialects). Compare also Saterland Frisian paddelje (“to paddle”).
Verb
paddle (third-person singular simple present paddles, present participle paddling, simple past and past participle paddled)
- (intransitive, Britain) To walk or dabble playfully in shallow water, especially at the seaside.
- To toddle.
- (archaic, intransitive) To toy or caress using hands or fingers.
Translations
Further reading
- paddle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
German
Verb
paddle
- inflection of paddeln:
- first-person singular present
- first/third-person singular subjunctive I
- singular imperative
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