Paddle vs. Piddle — What's the Difference?

A paddle is a tool used for pushing against liquids, either as a form of propulsion of a boat (paddling) or as an implement for mixing.

To urinate.

A short pole with a broad blade at one or both ends, used without a rowlock to move a small boat or canoe through the water

Piss: urine.

A flat array of solar cells projecting from a spacecraft.

A piss: an act of urination.

A plastic-covered electrode used in cardiac stimulation.

Nonsense or a trivial matter.

An act of walking with bare feet in shallow water

(intransitive) Often followed by about or around: to act or work ineffectually and wastefully.

Move through the water in a boat using a paddle or paddles

Syn of peck: to attack or eat with a beak.

Beat (someone) with a paddle as a punishment

Syn of nibble: to pick at or toy with one's food, to eat slowly or insubstantially.

Walk with bare feet in shallow water

To urinate.

An implement with a flat blade at one or both ends, held in the hands without an oarlock and passed through the water to propel a small boat such as a canoe.

To deal in trifles; to concern one's self with trivial matters rather than with those that are important.

(Sports) A light wooden or plastic racket used in playing table tennis, platform tennis, and similar games.

To be squeamishly nice about one's food.

A flat board with a handle used to administer physical punishment.

To urinate; - child's word.

A blade or shovellike implement used for stirring or mixing.

Liquid excretory product;

(Medicine) A flat electrode that is part of a defibrillator and is put on a patient's chest to deliver an electric shock to the heart.

Waste time; spend one's time idly or inefficiently

A board on a paddle wheel.

Eliminate urine;

A flipper or flattened appendage of certain animals.

(Botany) See pad1.

The act of paddling.

To propel a watercraft with paddles or a paddle.

To row slowly and gently.

To move through water by means of repeated short strokes of the limbs.

To propel (a watercraft) with paddles or a paddle.

To convey in a watercraft propelled by paddles.

To spank or beat with a paddle, especially as a punishment.

To stir or shape (material) with a paddle.

To dabble about in shallow water; splash gently with the hands or feet.

To move with a waddling motion; toddle.

A two-handed implement consisting of a shaft with one or two blades attached to the end(s) used to propel a canoe, kayak or a small boat. A paddle is unattached to the boat and freely operated with the hands, compared with an oar which is attached to the boat at a pivot point.

A single-bladed version is typically used on canoes and some other small boats.

A double-bladed version with blades at each end of the shaft is used for kayaking.

The use of a paddle to propel a boat; a session of paddling.

A slat of a paddleboat's wheel.

A paddlewheel.

A blade of a waterwheel.

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 broad, flat spanking implement.

(ping pong) A broad, flat device used in striking the ball, analogous to a racket in tennis.

A flat board with a number of holes or indentations, used to carry small alcoholic drinks such as shots.

A flat limb of an aquatic animal, adapted for swimming.

In a sluice, a panel that controls the flow of water.

A handheld electrode used for defibrillation or cardioversion.

(slang) A person's hand.

(medicine) A flap of attached skin that has been cut away from a wound.

Alternative form of padel

(transitive) To propel something through water with a paddle, oar, hands, etc.

(intransitive) To row a boat with less than one's full capacity.

(transitive) To spank with a paddle.

To pat or stroke amorously or gently.

To tread upon; to trample.

To walk or dabble playfully in shallow water, especially at the seaside.

(intransitive) To dog paddle in water.

To toddle.

To toy or caress using hands or fingers.

To use the hands or fingers in toying; to make caressing strokes.

To dabble in water with hands or feet; to use a paddle, or something which serves as a paddle, in swimming, in paddling a boat, etc.

To pat or stroke amorously, or gently.

To propel with, or as with, a paddle or paddles.

To pad; to tread upon; to trample.

To spank with a paddle or as if with a paddle; - usually as a disciplinary punishment of children.

To mix (a viscous liquid) by stirring or beating with a paddle.

An implement with a broad blade, which is used without a fixed fulcrum in propelling and steering canoes and boats.

The broad part of a paddle, with which the stroke is made;

One of the broad boards, or floats, at the circumference of a water wheel, or paddle wheel.

A small gate in sluices or lock gates to admit or let off water; - also called clough.

A paddle-shaped foot, as of the sea turtle.

A paddle-shaped implement for stirring or mixing.

See Paddle staff (b), below.

Small wooden bat with a flat surface; used for hitting balls in various games

A blade of a paddle wheel or water wheel

An instrument of punishment consisting of a flat board

A short light oar used without an oarlock to propel a canoe or small boat

Propel with a paddle;

Play in or as if in water, as of small children

Swim like a dog in shallow water

Walk unsteadily;

Give a spanking to; subject to a spanking

Stir with a paddle