Noun: puddle
| Singular | puddle |
| Plural | puddles |
Sample Sentences
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Foꝛ with the only be theſe welles of lyfe, / Of frayle men ſpring but podels of myꝛe, / From whom ſourdeth errour ⁊ croked ſtrife[…] [1560, “Pſalme. xxxvi”, in Matthew Parker, The whole Pſalter tranſlated into Engliſh metre […] , Iohn Daye, page 98:]
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And fast beside a little brooke did pas / Of muddie water, that like puddle stank […]. [1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:]
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searching their habitations for water, we could fill but three barricoes, and that such puddle, that never till then we ever knew the want of good water. [1624, John Smith, Generall Historie, Kupperman, published 1988, page 90:]
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I had only to see the 'puddle' to know that your paddle made it. [1969, Charles Cuthbert Brown, Malay Sayings, page 88:]
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As the blade exits the water the puddle is very tight and dark. It is also very quiet. [2007, Rowing News, volume 14, number 5, page 36:]
Nouns inflected like puddle
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
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. See: Middle English Nouns '
podel', Old English Nouns '
pudd'.
Verbs referencing "puddle"
Swedish Nouns
padda.