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noun
1.
a small pool of water, as of rainwater on the ground.
2.
a small pool of any liquid.
3.
clay or the like mixed with water and tempered, used as a waterproof lining for the walls of canals, ditches, etc.
verb (used with object)
4.
to mark or scatter with puddles.
5.
to wet with dirty water, mud, etc.
6.
to make (water) muddy or dirty.
7.
to muddle or confuse.
8.
EXPANDto make (clay or the like) into puddle.
9.
to cover with pasty clay or puddle.
10.
Metallurgy. to subject (molten iron) to the process of puddling.
11.
to destroy the granular structure of (soil) by agricultural operations on it when it is too wet.
12.
COLLAPSEHorticulture. to dip the roots of (a tree, shrub, etc.) into a thin mixture of loam and water to retard drying out during transplanting.
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verb (used without object)
13.
to wade in a puddle: The children were puddling.
14.
to be or become puddled: The backyard was puddling.
Origin:
1300–50; (noun) Middle English puddel, podel, pothel, apparently diminutive of Old English pudd ditch, furrow (akin to Low German pudel puddle); (v.) late Middle English pothelen, derivative of the noun
1300–50; (noun) Middle English puddel, podel, pothel, apparently diminutive of Old English pudd ditch, furrow (akin to Low German pudel puddle); (v.) late Middle English pothelen, derivative of the noun
Related forms
pud·dler, noun
pud·dly, adjective
un·pud·dled, adjective
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Word Origin & History
puddle
early 14c., frequentative or diminutive of O.E. pudd "ditch," related to Ger. pudeln "to splash in water" (cf. poodle). Originally used of pools and ponds as well. The verb "to dabble in water, poke in mud" (mid-15c.) led to sense in iron manufacture of "to turn and stir (molten iron) in a furnace."
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