puddle

Meaning

Noun

1. A small, often temporary, pool of water, usually on a path or road.
2. 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

lake

mud

mud puddle

muddle

slosh

mire

pit

slime

muss

sludge

make

pass water

roil

spend a penny

pool of water

small pool

pee

piddle

piss

plash

make water

relieve oneself

take a leak

addle

confuse

pee-pee

bog

urinate

bemire

micturate

wee

wee-wee

silt

muddy

embroil

entangle

flounder

ford

fossa

fosse

gargle

hollow

intermix

involve

jam

jumble

knead

lagoon

litter

loam

mash

masticate

mat

mess

mess up

mingle

miry

mix

mix up

mollify

mortar

muck up

mucky

ooze

pack

quicksand

riffle

rinse

rinse out

rumple

rut

seal

🦭

shake up

shuffle

slab

slop

soften

sop

souse

splosh

splotch

sum

summarise

summarize

sump

sum up

swamp

tangle

tank

telescope

🔭

touch

tousle

wade

water hole

weatherstrip

well

alligate

batten down

body of water

clutter up

dinge

louse up

opacify

depression

shallow lake

ice puddle

any reservoir of water

capsulise

molten pool

puddled clay

fused bath

sprue base

disturbed water

molten bath

melting bath

weld puddle

abstract

weld crater

admix

agitate

alluvium

anneal

baptise

baptize

basin

batten

bedevil

blear

capsule

capsulize

cesspool

christen

clay

cloud

☁️

commingle

compact

concentrate

condense

confound

congestion

dabble

deep

dim

dip

dirt

dishevel

disorganise

disrupt

douse

draggle

duck

🦆

dugout

dunk

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.