Paddle vs Swagger - What's the difference?
paddle | swagger | Related terms |
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
To walk with a swaying motion; hence, to walk and act in a pompous, consequential manner.
* Beaconsfield
To boast or brag noisily; to be ostentatiously proud or vainglorious; to bluster; to bully.
* Collier
confidence, pride
* {{quote-news
, year=2012
, date=April 9
, author=Mandeep Sanghera
, title=Tottenham 1 - 2 Norwich
, work=BBC Sport
A bold, or arrogant strut.
A prideful boasting or bragging.
Paddle is a related term of swagger.
As nouns the difference between paddle and swagger
is that paddle is a two-handed, single-bladed oar used to propel a canoe or a small boat while swagger is confidence, pride.As verbs the difference between paddle and swagger
is that 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 while swagger is to walk with a swaying motion; hence, to walk and act in a pompous, consequential manner.paddle
English
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.
Etymology 2
Recorded since 1530, probably cognate with Low German paddeln "to tramp about," frequent. of padjen "to tramp, to run in short steps," from pad (also in Dutch dialects)Verb
swagger
English
Verb
(en verb)- a man who swaggers about London clubs
- To be great is not to swagger at our footmen.
- (Jonathan Swift)
Derived terms
* swaggerer * swaggeringlyNoun
(en noun)citation, page= , passage=After spending so much of the season looking upwards, the swashbuckling style and swagger of early season Spurs was replaced by uncertainty and frustration against a Norwich side who had the quality and verve to take advantage}}