pudder
English
Etymology
Compare pother.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ʌdə(ɹ)
Noun
pudder (plural pudders)
Verb
pudder (third-person singular simple present pudders, present participle puddering, simple past and past participle puddered)
- (transitive) To perplex; to embarrass; to confuse; to bother.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of John Locke to this entry?)
- (intransitive) To make a tumult or bustle; to splash; to make a pother or fuss.
- Barrow
- Puddering in the designs or doings of others.
- Holland
- Others pudder into their food with their broad nebs.
- Barrow
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “pudder”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Anagrams
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From French poudre, from Latin pulvis
Noun
pudder n (definite singular pudderet, indefinite plural pudder or puddere, definite plural puddera or pudderne)
- powder (often cosmetic)
Synonyms
Derived terms
References
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From French poudre, from Latin pulvis
Noun
pudder n (definite singular pudderet, indefinite plural pudder, definite plural puddera)
- powder (often cosmetic)
Synonyms
Derived terms
References
- “pudder” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
- Rhymes:English/ʌdə(ɹ)
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- nb:Cosmetics
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms derived from French
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- Norwegian Nynorsk neuter nouns
- nn:Cosmetics