mispaddle
verbEtymology From mis- + paddle.
1
To paddle incorrectly.
- “Whoa!” Emory said, looking at Hamilton on the wave. “Did you see that? Laird leaned forward. He mispaddled. He almost fell!”2010, Susan Casey, The Wave: In Pursuit of the Ocean's Greatest Furies, page 237:
- 'Oh my, I'm all over the shop,' said Mhairi, as she mispaddled into a tangle of mangroves at one point, and stiff grey fingers dangling above quested for root space in her hair.2011, Lucy Irvine, Faraway:
1 more example
- Rufe mispaddled and splashed himself.2012, Brian Jacques, The Bellmaker, page 91: