Meanings
noundogpaddle (plural dogpaddles)
plural dogpaddles
- alternativeAlternative form of dog paddle.
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
verbdogpaddle (third-person singular simple present dogpaddles, present participle dogpaddling, simple past and past participle dogpaddled)
present singular third person dogpaddles · participle present dogpaddling · participle past dogpaddled · past dogpaddled
- alternativeAlternative form of dog paddle.
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APA
dogpaddle. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dogpaddle
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“dogpaddle.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dogpaddle. Accessed November 4, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “dogpaddle,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dogpaddle.
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