Paddle vs. Spanking — 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.

Spanking is a common form of corporal punishment involving the act of striking, with either the palm of the hand or an implement, the buttocks of a person to cause them physical pain. Although the term spanking broadly encompasses the use of either the hand or implement, the use of implements can also refer to the administration of more specific types of corporal punishment such as caning, paddling and slippering.

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

(Informal) Exceptional of its kind; remarkable.

A flat array of solar cells projecting from a spacecraft.

Swift and vigorous

A plastic-covered electrode used in cardiac stimulation.

Brisk and fresh

An act of walking with bare feet in shallow water

Used as an intensive

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

A number of slaps on the buttocks delivered in rapid succession, as for punishment.

Beat (someone) with a paddle as a punishment

Present participle of spank

Walk with bare feet in shallow water

Fast and energetic.

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.

Brisk and fresh.

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

An intensifier.

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

A form of physical punishment in which a beating is applied to the buttocks.

A blade or shovellike implement used for stirring or mixing.

An incident of such punishment, or such physical act in a non-punitive context, such as a birthday spanking.

(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.

Moving with a quick, lively pace, or capable of so doing; dashing.

A board on a paddle wheel.

Large; considerable.

A flipper or flattened appendage of certain animals.

Very; extremely; - used especially in the phrase spanking new or brand spanking new, meaning completely new and unused.

(Botany) See pad1.

The act of slapping on the buttocks;

The act of paddling.

Quick and energetic;

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