puddle

Meaning

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).

Synonyms

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

Translations

flaque

charco

pozzanghera

Pfütze

poça

pozza

Lache

toll

plas

charco

gölet

flaque d’eau

bassal

Pfuhl

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈpʌdəl/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: podel

Inherited from Old English: pudd

Cognate with Low German: Pudel

Cognate with Middle High German: podel

Cognate with Hunsrik: Puttel

Cognate with German: Pfudel

Cognate with German: 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.