puddle
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Etymology[edit]
Middle English podel, diminutive of Old English pudd 'ditch', from Proto-Germanic *puddo (compare Low German Pudel 'puddle').
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
puddle (plural puddles)
- A small pool of water, usually on a path or road. [from 14th c.]
- (now dialectal) Stagnant or polluted water. [from 16th c.]
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.5:
- And fast beside a little brooke did pas / Of muddie water, that like puddle stank […].
- 1624, John Smith, Generall Historie, in Kupperman 1988, p. 90:
- searching their habitations for water, we could fill but three barricoes, and that such puddle, that never till then we ever knew the want of good water.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.5:
- A homogeneous mixture of clay, water, and sometimes grit, used to line a canal or pond to make it watertight. [from 18th c.]
Translations[edit]
a small pool of water
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a homogeneous mixture of clay, water, and sometimes grit
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Verb[edit]
puddle (third-person singular simple present puddles, present participle puddling, simple past and past participle puddled)
- To form a puddle.
- To play or splash in a puddle.
- To process iron by means of puddling.
- To line a canal with puddle (clay).
- To collect ideas, especially abstract concepts, into rough subtopics or categories, as in study, research or conversation.
Translations[edit]
to line a canal with puddle
collection of ideas
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