dogpaddle

See also: dog-paddle, and dog paddle

English

Noun

dogpaddle (plural dogpaddles)

1. Alternative form of dog paddle
   • 2013, Erskine Clarke, By the Rivers of Water: A Nineteenth-Century Atlantic Odyssey‎^[1]:

     But Leighton, like most Westerners, knew little about swimming, except for perhaps a dogpaddle, and Jane was most certainly not a swimmer.

Verb

dogpaddle (third-person singular simple present dogpaddles, present participle dogpaddling, simple past and past participle dogpaddled)

1. Alternative form of dog paddle