What does "padoru padoru" mean? In the short Nero in a Santa outfit sings a "Jingle Bells" with some rather casual lyrics.


  Hashire sori yo, kaze no you ni, tsukimihara wo, padoru padoru


The lyric is a song of this clip (for the full clip, click here). The song sounds like a "Jingle Bells", but the subs don't seem to match up with the spoken dialogue ("Laughing all the way" as a translation for "padoru padoru").

I have searched on Know Your Meme, but I couldn't get the meaning of "padoru" from the lyrics. I have also tried google translate, and this is what I got:


  Peeling as Tsukurei Sled Like a cold


What is the meaning of "padoru" in the context the short or song?
I've actually questioned this myself in the past, here's what I've basically found so far

After digging for a while on Japanese Q&amp;A sites and forums, most people seemed to have concluded that it's referring to a "Paddle", as in an implement to whip the reindeer with.

However like the Western community, they have about as much of an idea as we do on what it's actually supposed to mean as I don't think there's even been an official comment on its meaning, there's even a difference between how people think it's supposed to be written, as パドル or パドる, the difference being the later is a verb and the former being just a noun.

Either way, this song is completely made up, it's just for TYPE-MOON ACE, so it could just as easily be utter nonsense gibberish to fill in the tune.



To add more context, here's a thread about this: http://フェイト-fate-grandorder攻略速報.com/lite/archives/50387834/comments/5642764/

The OP opens up asking what the Padoru (パドル) part means and some correct him that it's normally パドる, some say otherwise, however as far as I can see, パドる is more a widely accepted way of writing it, with pixiv dic and many YouTube videos seeming to have this spelling.

Post #5 on the thread sums it up kinda well: 


  「パドル」ではなくて「パドる」であって、パドる＝パドリング するってことなんだろうと解釈してた
  
  It's not the noun "Paddle", it's the verb "Paddle", as in the act of Paddling, or at least that's how I interpreted it.