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▪ I. pudder, v. Obs. or dial.|ˈpʌdə(r)|
[Of unknown origin: the quot. from Ancren Riwle a 1225 appears to contain the word, which otherwise is not known till near 1600. App. distinct from pudder, collateral form of pother n. and v.]
1. intr. To poke or stir about with the hand or a stick; (of an animal) to poke or rout, with bill or snout; to dabble in water, mud, or dust.
[a1225Ancr. R. 214 [He] lið euer iðen asken, & fareð abuten asken & bisiliche stureð him..& bloweð þerinne, & ablent him sulf; padereð [MS. T. puðeres] & makeð þerinne figures of augrim. ]1591Sylvester Du Bartas i. v. 175 Fishes..Some almost alwaies pudder in the mud Of sleepy Pools. 1601Holland Pliny x. lxxi. I. 306 Some peck and pluck it with their hookt bils, others pudder into their food with their broad nebs. 1611Cotgr., Bourbetter,..to paddle, or pudder, in the myre. 1639T. de la Grey Compl. Horsem. 153 He will not drinke much, but pudder long with his nose in the water. 1647Ward Simp. Cobler (1843) 2 To pudder in the rubbish, and to raise dust in the eyes of more steady Repayrers.
2. intr. To go ‘poking’ about; to potter; to meddle and muddle, to dabble (in).
1624Bacon Let. to Sir H. May, You may perhaps think me partial to Potycaries, that have been ever puddering in physic all my life. 1643T. Goodwin Trial Christian's Growth ii. ii. (1650) 69 Many..who have gone puddring on (as I may so speak) in the use of other meanes. a1677Barrow Serm. xxii. Wks. 1687 I. 307 We shall obtain vast benefit, much greater than we can hope to get by puddering in the designs or doings of others. 1863Cowden Clarke Shaks. Char. xvii. 443 Listen to the natural talk of those carriers, puddering about with their lanterns.
Hence ˈpuddering vbl. n. and ppl. a., poking, pottering, muddling, meddling; † puddering-pole, a pole to poke with.
1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. 139 In other mens letters they keepe a puddering, they open and reade them. 1674N. Fairfax Bulk & Selv. To Rdr., Leave to lay his eggs in his own nest, which is built beyond the reach of every mans puddering pole. 1811Lamb Notes Specimens fr. Fuller Wks. (1895) 270 One feels the ashes of Wicliffe gliding away out of the reach of the Sumners, Commissaries, Officials, Proctors, Doctors and all the puddering rout of executioners of the impotent rage of the baffled Council.
▪ II. pudder, n. rare—1.
Archaic or erroneous variant of puddle n.
1889Stevenson Master of B. iii, We found the body of a Christian..lying in a pudder of his blood.
▪ III. pudder
obs. or dial. var. of pother n. and v. |