Hotfoot vs Paddle - What's the difference?
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(US) The prank of secretly inserting a match between the sole and upper of a victim's shoe and then lighting it.
(British) hastily; without delay.
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.
(British) 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.
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
To propel something through water with a paddle, oar, hands, etc.
* L'Estrange
* (John Gay)
* 1884 : (Mark Twain), (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn), Chapter IX
To row a boat with less than one's full capacity.
To spank with a paddle.
To pat or stroke amorously or gently.
* Shakespeare
To tread upon; to trample.
(British) To walk or dabble playfully in shallow water, especially at the seaside.
To toddle
(archaic) To toy or caress using hands or fingers
Hotfoot is a related term of paddle.
In british|lang=en terms the difference between hotfoot and paddle
is that hotfoot is (british) hastily; without delay while paddle is (british) to walk or dabble playfully in shallow water, especially at the seaside.As nouns the difference between hotfoot and paddle
is that hotfoot is (us) the prank of secretly inserting a match between the sole and upper of a victim's shoe and then lighting it while paddle is a two-handed, single-bladed oar used to propel a canoe or a small boat.As an adverb hotfoot
is (british) hastily; without delay.As a verb paddle is
to propel something through water with a paddle, oar, hands, etc or paddle can be (british) to walk or dabble playfully in shallow water, especially at the seaside.hotfoot
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(en noun)Adverb
(head)Derived terms
* hotfoot itAnagrams
*paddle
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) padell (1407, "small spade"), from Medieval Latin padela, perhaps from (etyl) patella "pan, plate", the diminutive of patinaNoun
(en noun)- We had a nice paddle this morning.
- ''The paddle practically ousted the British cane as the spanker's attribute in the independent US
- ''A sea turtle's paddles make it swim almost as fast as land tortoises are slow
Derived terms
* paddler * paddleboat * paddle board * paddlewheel * paddle steamer * paddling * dog paddle * traffic paddleSee also
* oarVerb
- as the men were paddling for their lives
- while paddling ducks the standing lake desire
- Daytimes we paddled all over the island in the canoe
- to be paddling palms and pinching fingers.