Meanings
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of paddle
- not comparablespanked with a paddle, e.g. in corporal punishment.
Paddled students tend to say that it hurts like crazy at the time, but that the pain often does not last very long. There may be yelps and tears and red faces, as attested by numerous anecdotal eyewitness and first-person accounts.
2016, Colin Farrell, Corporal punishment in US schools, World Corporal Punishment Research
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