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Definitions for Puddle

[1] a small pool of water, as of rainwater on the ground.
[2] a small pool of any liquid.
[3] clay or the like mixed with water and tempered, used as a waterproof lining for the walls of canals, ditches, etc.
[4] to mark or scatter with puddles.
[5] to wet with dirty water, mud, etc.
[6] to make (water) muddy or dirty.
[7] to muddle or confuse.
[8] to make (clay or the like) into puddle.
[9] to cover with pasty clay or puddle.
[10] Metallurgy . to subject (molten iron) to the process of puddling.
[11] to destroy the granular structure of (soil) by agricultural operations on it when it is too wet.
[12] Horticulture . to dip the roots of (a tree, shrub, etc.) into a thin mixture of loam and water to retard drying out during transplanting.
[13] to wade in a puddle: The children were puddling.
[14] to be or become puddled: The backyard was puddling.
[15] a small pool of water, esp of rain
[16] a small pool of any liquid
[17] a worked mixture of wet clay and sand that is impervious to water and is used to line a pond or canal
[18] rowing the patch of eddying water left by the blade of an oar after completion of a stroke
[19] (tr) to make (clay, etc) into puddle
[20] (tr) to subject (iron) to puddling
[21] (intr) to dabble or wade in puddles, mud, or shallow water
[22] (intr) to mess about

Words related to Puddle

pond, quagmire, plash

Words nearby Puddle

pudding, pudding club, pudding stone, pudding-pipe tree, puddingwife, puddle, puddle-jumper, puddling, puddock, pudency, pudendal artery

Origin of Puddle

1300–50; (noun) Middle English puddel, podel, pothel, apparently diminutive of Old English pudd ditch, furrow (akin to Low German pudel puddle); (v.) late Middle English pothelen, derivative of the noun

Other words from Puddle

pud·dler , noun
pud·dly , adjective
un·pud·dled , adjective

Word origin for Puddle

C14 podel, diminutive of Old English pudd ditch, of obscure origin

Synonyms for Puddle

pond, plash, quagmire, plashet