puddle

Significat (Anglès)

Noun

1. A small, often temporary, pool of water, usually on a path or road.
2. (dialectal) Stagnant or polluted water.
3. A homogeneous mixture of clay, water, and sometimes grit, used to line a canal or pond to make it watertight.
4. The ripple left by the withdrawal of an oar from the water.

Verb

1. To form a puddle.
2. To play or splash in a puddle.
3. Of butterflies, to congregate on a puddle or moist substance to pick up nutrients.
4. To process iron, gold, etc., by means of puddling.
5. To line a canal with puddle (clay).
6. To collect ideas, especially abstract concepts, into rough subtopics or categories, as in study, research or conversation.
7. To make (clay, loam, etc.) dense or close, by working it when wet, so as to render impervious to water.
8. To make foul or muddy; to pollute with dirt; to mix dirt with (water).

Conceptes

toll

bassal

bassiol

embolicar

enredar

embrollar

tolla

confondre

embassada

amarador

patollar

xipollar

xipollejar

entollar

bassiot

Sinònims

pool

pond

mud puddle

lake

mud

muddle

slosh

mire

pit

piddle

confuse

bemire

silt

roil

take a leak

pee

pass water

slime

relieve oneself

pee-pee

urinate

wee

small pool

pool of water

piss

wee-wee

bog

sludge

muddy

muss

micturate

make water

addle

make

plash

spend a penny

dip

dim

capsule

deep

dabble

baptise

congestion

blear

confound

intermix

hollow

condense

involve

anneal

Traduccions

flaque

charco

pozzanghera

Pfütze

poça

pozza

Lache

plas

gölet

charco

pozo

flaque d’eau

Pfuhl

pozzo

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/ˈpʌdəl/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Heretat de anglès mitjà: podel

Heretat de anglès antic: pudd

Cognat amb baix alemany: Pudel

Cognat amb alt alemany mitjà: podel

Cognat amb Hunsrik: Puttel

Cognat amb alemany: Pfudel

Cognat amb alemany: pudeln

In summary

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.