bepuddle
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[edit]bepuddle (third-person singular simple present bepuddles, present participle bepuddling, simple past and past participle bepuddled)
- To cover or fill with puddles.
- 1898, Frank W. Calkins, “A Girl's Exploit”, in The Conductor and Brakeman, volume 15:
- It was Saturday afternoon and raining—raining suds. State street was bepuddled from end to end—rivulets ran among its paving stones and torrents in its gutters.
- 1971, The Yale Literary Magazine - Volumes 141-142, page 41:
- Now, black streets the rain bepuddles, and a communion of sorts can be happily re-embraced.
- 2011, Lawrence Durrell, Bitter Lemons of Cyprus:
- Several of the spigots had been left on or half on and the worm-eaten floor of the cavern was liberally bepuddled with country wine.
- (by extension) To soil or debase.
- 1861, John Bunyan, The Works of John Bunyan, page 330:
- But this Antichrist has, where she rules, put all out of order ; and no wonder, for she has bepuddled the word of God ; no wonder, then, I say, if the foundations of the world be out of course.