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puddle
English
Etymology
From Middle English podel, diminutive of Old English pudd (“ditch”), from Proto-Germanic *puddaz (compare Low German Pudel (“puddle”), Middle High German podel (“quagmire, mudhole”), Hunsrik Puttel, dialectal German Pfudel (“puddle”), German pudeln (“to splash about”)), ultimately imitative.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?p?d?l/
- Rhymes: -?d?l
Noun
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.]
- (rowing) The ripple left by the withdrawal of an oar from the water.
- 1969, Charles Cuthbert Brown, Malay Sayings (page 88)
- I had only to see the 'puddle' to know that your paddle made it.
- 2007, Rowing News (volume 14, number 5, page 36)
- As the blade exits the water the puddle is very tight and dark. It is also very quiet.
- 1969, Charles Cuthbert Brown, Malay Sayings (page 88)
Translations
Verb
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.
- (entomology) Of butterflies, to congregate on a puddle or moist substance to pick up nutrients.
- To process iron, gold, etc., 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.
- To make (clay, loam, etc.) dense or close, by working it when wet, so as to render impervious to water.
- To make foul or muddy; to pollute with dirt; to mix dirt with (water).
Translations
German
Verb
puddle
- inflection of puddeln:
- first-person singular present
- first/third-person singular subjunctive I
- singular imperative
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puddled
English
Verb
puddled
- simple past tense and past participle of puddle
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