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Puddle   /pˈədəl/   Listen
Puddle

noun
1.
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.  Synonym: pool.  "The body lay in a pool of blood"
3.
Something resembling a pool of liquid.  Synonym: pool.  "His chair sat in a puddle of books and magazines"
verb
(past & past part. puddled; pres. part. puddling)
1.
Wade or dabble in a puddle.
2.
Subject to puddling or form by puddling.
3.
Dip into mud before planting.
4.
Work a wet mixture, such as concrete or mud.
5.
Mess around, as in a liquid or paste.
6.
Make into a puddle.  Synonym: muddle.
7.
Make a puddle by splashing water.
8.
Mix up or confuse.  Synonyms: addle, muddle.
9.
Eliminate urine.  Synonyms: make, make water, micturate, pass water, pee, pee-pee, piddle, piss, relieve oneself, spend a penny, take a leak, urinate, wee, wee-wee.



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"Puddle" Quotes from Famous Books



... What a heavenly drive! Although I think with more fondness of scaling the heights of Capri in a trembling little Italian cab, not because both views were not divinely beautiful, but because when in Capri my clothes were not damply sticking to me, and I had no puddle of water in each shoe. As I look back I believe I could write specific directions from personal experience on "How to be Happy when Miserable." Jimmie always bewails the fact that the American girl lives on her nerves. "Goes on her uppers" is his choice phrase. ...
— As Seen By Me • Lilian Bell
... spider. From its thickness, it took some minutes for it to become heated through; but, in the course of a quarter of an hour, Kit pronounced it ready. Weymouth cut out a chunk of walrus-blubber, with which he basted it, the melted fat collecting in a little puddle at the bottom. ...
— Left on Labrador - or, The cruise of the Schooner-yacht 'Curlew.' as Recorded by 'Wash.' • Charles Asbury Stephens
... called nasty by lubbers on a gingerbread yacht, but I have sailed the seas in my day and season, and I don't run for an inshore puddle every time the wind whickers a little." He was fumbling with a button under his crisp roll of chin beard and gave the other man a stare ...
— Blow The Man Down - A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 • Holman Day
... could have done it if they had just let him alone! But they wouldn't. Within thirty days after the first shovelful of earth was turned there was a strong organization perfected to defeat him. Why? In the first place there is a certain bloated toad in our local puddle named Oliver Swinnerton who has his hatchet out on general principles for the Old Man. In the town of Bolton he's the mayor and the chief of police and the board of city fathers and the municipal janitor all rolled into one pompous, pot-bellied little body. He's got ...
— Under Handicap - A Novel • Jackson Gregory
... unexpectedly. Okiok bade him silent welcome, with a broad grin of satisfaction. Nunaga did the same, with a pleased smile and a decided blush. The other inmates of the hut showed similar friendship, and Tumbler, trying to look up, fell over into an oil-puddle, with a loud crow of joy. They all then gazed suddenly and simultaneously, with mysterious meaning, at Red Rooney, who lay coiled up, and apparently sound ...
— Red Rooney - The Last of the Crew • R.M. Ballantyne


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