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Definition: Puddle |
PuddleNoun1. A mixture of wet clay and sand that can be used to line a pond and that is impervious to water when dry. 2. A small body of standing water (rainwater) or other liquid; "there were puddles of muddy water in the road after the rain"; "the body lay in a pool of blood". 3. Something resembling a pool of liquid; "he stood in a pool of light"; "his chair sat in a puddle of books and magazines". Verb1. Wade or dabble in a puddle, as of ducks or geese. 2. Subject to puddling, as of iron; form by puddling, as of metal. 3. Dip into mud before planting, of young plants. 4. Work a wet mixture, such as concrete or mud. 5. Mess around, as in a liquid or paste; "The children are having fun puddling in paint". 6. Make into a puddle; "puddled mire". 7. Make a puddle by splashing water. 8. Mix up or confuse; "He muddled the issues". 9. Eliminate urine; "Again, the cat had made on the expensive rug". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "puddle" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Etymology: Puddle \Pud"dle\, noun. [Old English podel; compare to Low German pudel, Irish & Gaelic plod pool.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Building & Civil Engineering | To render a material compact by pressure after it has deposited or disturbed. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Earthy material as a mixture of clay, sand and gravel, placed with water to form a compact mass to reduce percolation. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Dream Interpretation | To find yourself stepping into puddles of clear water in a dream, denotes a vexation, but some redeeming good in the future. If the water be muddy, unpleasantness will go a few rounds with you. To wet your feet by stepping into puddles, foretells that your pleasure will work you harm afterwards. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Geography | An accumulation on ice of melt-water, mainly due to melting snow, but in the more advanced stages also to the melting of ice. Initial stage consists of patches of melted snow. Source: European Union. (references) |
Hydrologic | (1) The act of compacting earth, soil clay, etc., by mixing them with water and rolling or tamping the mixture. (2) A compact mass of earth, soil, clay, or a mixture of material, which has been compacted through the addition of water, rolling and tamping. This makes the material less permeable. (3) A small pool of water, usually a few inches in depth and from several inches to several feet in it greatest dimension. (references) |
Mining | A. Earthy material--such as a mixture of clay, sand, and gravel--placed with water to form a compact mass to reduce percolation b. To place such material c. To compact loose soil by soaking it and allowing it to dry d. The molten portion of a weld e. To work (metal) while molten. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: PuddleSynonyms: pool (n), addle (v), make (v), make water (v), micturate (v), muddle (v), pass water (v), pee (v), pee-pee (v), piddle (v), piss (v), relieve oneself (v), spend a penny (v), take a leak (v), urinate (v), wee (v), wee-wee (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Gulf Lake | Lake, loch, lough, mere, tarn, plash, broad, pond, pool, lin, puddle, slab, well, artesian well; standing water, dead water, sheet of water; fish pond, mill pond; ditch, dike, dyke, dam; reservoir. (store); alberca, barachois, hog wallow. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Puddle |
| English words defined with "puddle": Mill bar, mud puddle, muddle ♦ Plashet, Podge, pool, Puddled, Puddling ♦ Soss ♦ wallow. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "puddle": dry puddling ♦ Knight of the Cloak ♦ Partington, puddle roll ♦ Storm in a Teapot ♦ Turing tar-pit. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "puddle": Podge. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Puddle" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Portuguese (puddle). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | The only fluid I see here is the puddle of piss refusing to pay our wage (Firefly; writing credit: John Sullivan) Biggest puddle of'em all, angel fangs, the Atlantic Ocean (James and the Giant Peach; writing credit: Karey Kirkpatrick) We are in the middle of the, uh, big puddle. (James and the Giant Peach; writing credit: Karey Kirkpatrick) | |
Clever | If you step in a puddle, don't blame the puddle. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Mister Magoo's Puddle Jumper (1956) Puddle Pranks (1930) | |
Song Titles | Blurry (performing artist: Puddle Of Mudd) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Rogue River - Great Blue Heron standing in a puddle. Credit: Unknown. |  | Backyard privy, Washington, D.C., near Government Printing Office. Puddle of water in front of privy. Pump on right supplies water for house in back of privy. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Puddle diving" by Max Gaugush Commentary: "A kid lands a perfect dive with a half twist into a puddle." | "Puddle Reflection" by Marcus Buckner Commentary: "Reflection of a tree in water." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | The dog wandered, sniffing, past the truck, trotted to the puddle under the hose again and lapped at the muddy water |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Puddle" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 83.97% of the time. "Puddle" is used about 156 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 83.97% | 131 | 27,855 |
| Noun (proper) | 14.74% | 23 | 72,767 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 1.28% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 156 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "puddle": mud puddle ♦ puddle about ♦ puddle in paint ♦ puddle poet. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "puddle": Puddle-ball, Puddle-bar, Puddle-duck, puddle-wharf. | |
Ending with "puddle": water-puddle. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "puddle"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | pellg (cesspool, dam, lake, mere, mill-dam, pond, pool, sump), llogaçe (water-puddle). (various references) | |
Arabic | ملاط أصم, تعثر في الوحل, تخبط في الماء, عجن (impaste, knead, masticate, mastication), أنقوعة, بريكة بركة صغيرة. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | разкалвам (muddle), размътвам (addle, mud, muddle, muddy, obfuscate, stir), разбърквам (addle, agitate, clutter, derange, disarrange, disorder, jumble, litter, mess up, mix, mix up, muddle, rumple, scramble, tousle, trouble, tumble, unbalance, unfix, unsettle), работя несръчно, цапотя (daub), цапам (daub, grime, mess, muck, paddle, soil, stain, sully), газя (flounder, jaw, paddle, tick off, trample, wade), локва (hag, plash, pool, slop), пудлинговам. (various references) | |
Chinese | 水坑. (various references) | |
Czech | pudlovat, patlat se, vymazat (blot out, clear, delete, erase, obliterate, rub off, rub out, scrub, wipe out), válet se (roll, wallow, welter), louže (eschar, plash, pool, splash), kaluž (pool, splash), chlívek (Cote, shed). (various references) | |
Danish | stampet lermasse, smeltevandspyt. (various references) | |
Dutch | plas (lake, loch), leemachtig materiaal, brij-ijs (slush). (various references) | |
Farsi | مخلوطکردن (Commix, Hash, Interlard, Meddle, Melt, Ming, Mingle, Mix, Roil, Temper), چاله فاضل اب , گل گرفتن , گل الودکردن (Lair, Mud), گودال (Cavern, Cavity, Grave, Hole, Pit, Sinus, Swag, Trench, Vesicle), دست انداز (Ramp). (various references) | |
Finnish | vettä läpäisemätön savi-hiekkarappaus, vesilätäkkö, sulamisvesilammikko, savisullos, savi-iskos, mellottaa (refine), lätäkkö (pool), allikko (pool). (various references) | |
French | pilonner (to pun), patauger, tasser, mare, malaxer, malaxe, flaque, damer (to pun), corroi (puddled clay). (various references) | |
German | Pfütze (pool, slop). (various references) | |
Greek | συμπεπηγμένη μάζα (puddled clay), βούρκοσ (mud, quicksand, sludge), βορβορώδησ (miry, mucky), νερολακκούβα, μαλάσσω (knead, mollify, soften), λιμνούλα (pond, pool), λάκκοσ (cesspool, dugout, fossa, pit, sump), λάσπη (alluvium, cement, clay, mire, mortar, mud, ooze, silt, slab, slime, slosh, sludge), λακκούβα με νερό, λασπώνω (bemire, draggle, mire, muddy, silt), λούτσα, ανακατώνω (admix, alligate, commingle, confound, intermix, jumble, mash, mingle, mix, muss, riffle, rumple, shuffle, tousle). (various references) | |
Hebrew | שלולית (pond, pool), רקק (bog, mire, morass, swamp). (various references) | |
Hungarian | tócsa (plash, pool, Pule, slop, sump), pocsolya (dub, mere, mire, pond, pool, slop, slough, stank, sump, wallow). (various references) | |
Indonesian | kubangan, genangan, balong (fishpond, pond). (various references) | |
Italian | pozzanghera, pozza (pool), miscela di argilla sabbia e ghiaia. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 水溜まり (pool), 水溜り (pool of water). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | みずたまり (a pool, a puddle, pool, pool of water). (various references) | |
Korean | 물웅덩이. (various references) | |
Manx | dubbey (dub, pond, pool). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | uddlepay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | puddle, poça de água (dash, plash), turvar (blear, cloud, dim, muddy, obscure, roil, thicken), trapalhada (foul-up, hodge-podge, hotchpotch, huddle, imbroglio, jumble, medley, mess, mingle-mangle, mishmash, mix, moil, muddle, mull, muss), lamaçal (bog, mire, quagmire, slough), embrulhada (embroilment, gallimaufry, imbroglio, intricacy, involution, moil, muddle, mull), confusão (baffle, bedlam, bother, bungle, clutter, daze, disarray, discomfiture, discomposure, disturbance, donnybrook, embroilment, entanglement, fog, foul-up, fuddle, intricacy, involution, involvement, jumble, kettle of fish, labyrinth, macaroni, maze, medley, mess, mind-breaker, mingle-mangle, mishmash, misrule, mix, mix-up, moil, muddle, mull, muss, olio, pandemonium, pell-mell, perplexity, perturbation, pother, puzzle, ravel, rough-and-tumble, rout, shuffle, skein, to-do, tumble, turbidity, turmoil), charco (bog, catchment basin, dash, dub, fen, marsh, mire, moor, morass, plash, pond, pool, quag, quagmire, sink, slough, swamp, wash), atoleiro (bog, hag, mire, morass, quag, quagmire, slough, swamp), argila (argil, bind, bole, earthenware, gumbo, loam, pug). (various references) | |
Romanian | pudla, tulbura (agitate, bewilder, cloud, confuse, disconcert, distract, disturb, flurry, flutter, fret, incommode, indispose, interrupt, intrude upon, Mar, muddle, muddy, perturb, ripple, stir, trouble, upset, vex, worry), murdãrie (contamination, corruption, defilement, dinginess, dirt, dirtiness, dishonesty, dung, filth, filthiness, foulness, greasiness, grime, litter, maculation, mess, muck, nastiness, naughty words, offscourings, ordure, refuse, rust, smudge, smut, smutch, soil, squalidity), murdãri (bedraggle, begrime, besmear, besmirch, blot, contaminate, defile, foul, litter, mess, muck, muddy, pollute, slop, smear, smirch, smudge, smut, smutch, soil, splash, splatter, spot, stain, sully, tarnish), mlaştinã (bog, Fen, Marsh, mere, mire, moor, morass, quagmire, slop, Slough, swamp), lipi cu lut, frãmânta (agitate, beat, brake, bustle, churn, debate, fret, fuss, knead, pug, ride, stamp, stir, temper, torment, torture, worry), baltã (bog, Fen, lake, mere, moor, morass, plash, pool, slop, Slough, swamp), bãtãtori (batter, beat, pound, tread), bãltoacã (pan, pool, Slough), argilã plasticã, amestecãturã (congeries, hotchpotch, mash, medley, motley, patchwork, pell mell, pie, potpourri, promiscuity). (various references) | |
Russian | лужа (plash, waterhole). (various references) | |
Scottish | poll (a pool, mire, mud, pool), lub (dub, pool), làthach (clay, mire), eabar (mud). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | mešati (alloy, blend, jumble, mingle, mix, rabble, shuffle, stir), lokva (plash, pool), brljati, barica, bara (plash, pool, swamp). (various references) | |
Spanish | charco (patch, pool). (various references) | |
Swedish | pöl (bolster, pool, slop). (various references) | |
Turkish | tavlamak (anneal, attemper, roast), su birikintisi (Slough, water), sıvamak (daub, draw up, parget, plaster, roll up, tuck up, turn up), sıvacı çamuru, sıva haline getirmek, kumlu harç, külçe fırınında tasfiye etmek, işemek (do number one, make water, micturate, pass water, pee, piddle, piss, spend a penny, spring a leak, stale, urinate, wee-wee), gölet (pond, pool, Slough), gölcük (lagoon, Linn, pond, pool, small lake), çiş yapmak (do number one, have a tinkle, make water, pass water, pee, piddle, piss, spend a penny, urinate, wee, wee-wee), çamurlu suya girmek (puddle about), çamurlu su (slosh), çamurlamak (bedrabble, bedraggle, bemire, bespatter, mire, muddy, puddle about, slime, soil with mud). (various references) | |
Turkmen | зalpaw (pool). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | трамбувати землю, калюжа (dub, plash, pool, slop, wallow, wash), каламутити воду, грязюка, глиняня обмазка, напудити, місити глину (blunge), забруднювати (belute, besmirch, contaminate, defile, filth, gum up, make dirty, moil, pollute, stain), бентежити (abash, affront, bewilder, confound, confuse, damp, dank, daunt, disarray, discomfit, disconcert, discourage, dismay, disorder, embarrass, embrangle, flummox, muddle, overset, perplex, perturb, puzzle, upturn), безладдя (bewilderment, chaos, clutter, confusion, derangement, disarrangement, disorder, hoity toity, huddle, hugger mugger, mess, misrule, mix, moil, pell mell, pellmell, racket, shambles, sozzle, topsy turvy, upset, welter), плутанина (boggle, confusion, derangement, embroilment, hubbub, hurly burly, intricacy, involute, jumble, maze, mingle-mangle, mishmash, mix up, muddle, muss, patchwork, pell mell, pellmell, skein, snarl, snarl up, tangle, wooliness, woolliness). (various references) | |
Welsh | corbwll (whirlpool). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Low German | 800-1100 | Pudel. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "puddle": puddled, puddler, puddlers, puddles. (additional references) | |
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"Puddle" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Duddle, guddle, piddley, piddly, poddle, poddled, podel, podle, podule, pudd, puddler, pude, Pudley, pudse. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "puddle" (pronounced pu"dul) |
| 4 | -u" d u l | befuddle, cuddle, huddle, muddle, Ruddle. |
| 3 | -d u l | addle, alkaloidal, antipodal, astraddle, backpedal, beadle, Bedell, bindle, Boodle, bridal, bridle, Brindle, bundle, caboodle, candle, caudal, caudle, Coddle, colloidal, cradle, dawdle, Doodle, dwindle, feudal, fiddle, fondle, genocidal, girdle, handle, homicidal, hurdle, idle, idol, idyll, spindle, straddle, suicidal, supermodel, swindle, intermodal, intertidal, kindle, ladle, manhandle, medal, meddle, middle, minoxidil, mishandle, modal, model, mollycoddle, needle, noodle, paddle, panhandle, pedal, peddle, Piddle, poodle, pyramidal, rekindle, remodel, rhizoidal, riddle, Rundle, saddle, sandal, scandal, Seidel, sidle, tidal, toddle, trundle, twaddle, Tweedle, twiddle, unbundle, vandal, Waddle, Wedel, widdle, Windle, yodel. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-d-e-l-p-u" | |
-1 letter: duped, duple, puled. | |
-2 letters: dude, duel, dupe, leud, lude, pled, pule. | |
-3 letters: del, dud, due, dup, eld, led, leu, ped, pud, pul. | |
-4 letters: de, ed, el, pe, up. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-d-e-l-p-u" | |
+1 letter: puddled, puddler, puddles. | |
+2 letters: decupled, deplumed, duplexed, preluded, puddlers, puddlier, pudendal, upfolded, uploaded. | |
+3 letters: applauded, decoupled, displumed, peduncled, plundered, precluded, puddliest. | |
+4 letters: duplicated, outplodded, quadrupled, unexploded. | |
+5 letters: depopulated, diadelphous, pseudopodal, quadrupedal, underlapped, underplayed, undeveloped. | |
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