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skedaddle
English
Etymology
19th century US - dramatically appearing and gaining prominence in Civil War military contexts around 1861, and rapidly passing into more general use. Possibly an alteration of British dialect scaddle (“to run off in a fright”), from the adjective scaddle (“wild, timid, skittish”), from Middle English scathel, skadylle (“harmful, fierce, wild”), perhaps of North Germanic/Scandinavian origin, from Old Norse *sköþull; or from Old English *scaþol, *sceaþol (see scathel); akin to Old Norse skaði (“harm”).
Possibly related to the Ancient Greek ???????? (skédasis, “scattering”), ????????? (skedasmós, “dispersion”). Possibly related to scud or scat.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA(key): /sk??dæd?l/
- Rhymes: -æd?l
Verb
skedaddle (third-person singular simple present skedaddles, present participle skedaddling, simple past and past participle skedaddled)
- (informal, intransitive, US) To move or run away quickly.
- 1975, Saul Bellow, Humboldt's Gift [Avon ed., 1976, pl. 122]:
- Then filled with inspiration he drove in his Buick, the busted muffler blasting in the country lanes and the great long car skedaddling dangerously on the curves. Lucky for the woodchucks they were already hibernating.
- 1975, Saul Bellow, Humboldt's Gift [Avon ed., 1976, pl. 122]:
- (transitive, regional) To spill; to scatter.
Synonyms
- (move or run away quickly): flee, vamoose, scat, take off, make tracks, get lost, kick rocks, hightail; see also Thesaurus:move quickly, Thesaurus:rush or Thesaurus:flee
Translations
Noun
skedaddle (plural skedaddles)
- (informal) The act of running away; a scurrying off.
Translations
See also
- Appendix:Fanciful 19th century American coinages
References
- 1897, Hunter, Robert, and Charles Morris, editors, Universal Dictionary of the English Language, v4, p4291: "Etym. doubtful; perhaps allied to scud. To betake one's self hurriedly to flight; to run away as in a panic; to fly in terror. (A word of American origin.)"
- Michael Quinion (7 February 2004) , “Skedaddle”, in World Wide Words
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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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