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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



... that puddle on the floor beneath you? Don't move! Stay where you are." She sprang to my side ...
— Explorers of the Dawn • Mazo de la Roche
... is it?" he asked, with a jerk of his thumb toward a cloud of blue-and-yellow butterflies drifting over a shining puddle—"five miles as the crow flies, ...
— The Deliverance; A Romance of the Virginia Tobacco Fields • Ellen Glasgow
... thing Tom knew, he was sailing through the air, high above Swift Enterprises. Lake Carlopa was a tiny blue puddle below, and the town of Shopton a mere cluster of ...
— Tom Swift and the Electronic Hydrolung • Victor Appleton
... two days ago. I wet my feet in a puddle in the street," she answered. "But Anne did say that they would soon get dry, if I held them to the fire, because my other boots was not clean. Oh, my head does ...
— Beatrice • H. Rider Haggard
... around gradually over his face, like when you heave a brickbat in a mud-puddle, and ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain


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