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Definition: PUDDER |
PUDDERIntransitive verb1. To make a tumult or bustle; to splash; to make a pother or fuss; to potter; to meddle. Noun1. A pother; a tumult; a confused noise; turmoil; bustle. Transitive verb1. To perplex; to embarrass; to confuse; to bother; as, to pudder a man. |
Date "PUDDER" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1605. (references) |
Note: Pudder \Pud"der\, intransitive verb [imperfect & past participle. Puddered; Puddering.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Disorder | Turmoil; ferment; (agitation); to-do, trouble, pudder, pother, row, rumble, disturbance, hubbub, convulsion, tumult, uproar, revolution, riot, rumpus, stour, scramble, brawl, fracas, rhubarb, fight, free-for-all, row, ruction, rumpus, embroilment, melee, spill and pelt, rough and tumble; whirlwind; bear garden, Babel, Saturnalia, donnybrook, Donnybrook Fair, confusion worse confounded, most admired disorder, concordia discors; Bedlam, all hell broke loose; bull in a china shop; all the fat in the fire, diable a' quatre, Devil to pay; pretty kettle of fish; pretty piece of work, pretty piece of business. |
Inactivity | Idle away time, trifle away time, fritter away time, fool away time; spend time in, take time in; peddle, piddle; potter, pudder, dabble, faddle fribble, fiddle-faddle; dally, dilly-dally. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: PUDDER |
| English words defined with "PUDDER": Puddered, Puddering. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "PUDDER" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Norwegian (cosmetic powder, powder). |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
genealogy pudder | 6 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words ending with "PUDDER": spudder. (additional references) | |
Words containing "PUDDER": spudders. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-d-e-p-r-u" | |
-1 letter: drupe, duped, duper, dured, perdu, prude, udder. | |
-2 letters: dude, dupe, dure, pure, redd, rudd, rude, rued. | |
-3 letters: dud, due, dup, ped, per, pud, pur, red, rep, rue, urd. | |
-4 letters: de, ed, er, pe, re, up. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-d-e-p-r-u" | |
+1 letter: puddler, spudder, updried. | |
+2 letters: perdured, preluded, produced, puddlers, puddlier, spudders, superadd, undraped, updarted, upgirded, upgraded. | |
+3 letters: depurated, disrupted, pedicured, persuaded, plundered, precluded, prejudged, protruded, quadruped, superadds, underpaid, upbraided, uphoarded. | |
+4 letters: coproduced, epidendrum, outdropped, prejudiced, propounded, quadrupeds, quadrupled, reproduced, repudiated, rudderpost, superadded, superceded, superseded, unproduced. | |
+5 letters: decrepitude, epidendrums, outproduced, pompadoured, quadrupedal, rudderposts, superadding, suspendered, underlapped, underpinned, underplayed, underpriced, unpersuaded. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 55 44 44 45 52 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. ..- -.. -.. . .-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01010101 01000100 01000100 01000101 01010010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P U D D E R |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0055 0044 0044 0045 0052 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)505538383952 |
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