spuddlev.

Etymology: Alteration of puddle v.; in later use partly < spud n. 3.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈspuddle.

Now dialect.

1. intransitive. To puddle, in various senses; to work feebly or ineffectively.

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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > dirtiness or soiling with specific kinds of dirt > be or become dirty or soiled with specific kinds of dirt [verb (intransitive)] > be dirty by being trailed in mud > wallow or dabble in mud

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the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > uselessness, vanity, or futility > be of no avail [verb (intransitive)] > be ineffective > work ineffectively

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1630 J. Taylor Water-cormorant in Wks. iii. 1/3 Hee grubs and spuddles for his prey in muddy holes and obscure cauernes.

1704 J. Pitts True Acct. Mohammetans vii. 103 In the very place where the Child spuddled with his Feet, the Water flowed out.

1830 W. Cobbett Rural Rides in Weekly Polit. Reg. 17 Apr. 488 The labourers, who spuddle about the ground in the little dips between those sand-hills.

2. transitive. To turn over, dig up, stir or work at, lightly or superficially.

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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > breaking up land > break up land [verb (transitive)] > dig > superficially

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1805 R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. II. 600 This purpose is well accomplished..by spuddling the land with a kind of plough.

1856 J. C. Morton Cycl. Agric. (new ed.) II. (Gloss.) 726/1 Spuddling (Kent); see Broad-sharing [‘ploughing shallow and wide with a broad share, without turning it over’].

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online June 2019).

单词	spuddle
释义	spuddlev. Etymology: Alteration of puddle v.; in later use partly < spud n. 3.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈspuddle. Now dialect. 1. intransitive. To puddle, in various senses; to work feebly or ineffectively. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > dirtiness or soiling with specific kinds of dirt > be or become dirty or soiled with specific kinds of dirt [verb (intransitive)] > be dirty by being trailed in mud > wallow or dabble in mud muddlea1450 moila1566 soss1575 spuddle1630 mudlark1870 the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > uselessness, vanity, or futility > be of no avail [verb (intransitive)] > be ineffective > work ineffectively niggle1599 spuddle1630 1630 J. Taylor Water-cormorant in Wks. iii. 1/3 Hee grubs and spuddles for his prey in muddy holes and obscure cauernes. 1704 J. Pitts True Acct. Mohammetans vii. 103 In the very place where the Child spuddled with his Feet, the Water flowed out. 1830 W. Cobbett Rural Rides in Weekly Polit. Reg. 17 Apr. 488 The labourers, who spuddle about the ground in the little dips between those sand-hills. 2. transitive. To turn over, dig up, stir or work at, lightly or superficially. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > breaking up land > break up land [verb (transitive)] > dig > superficially gruba1400 spuddle1805 1805 R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. II. 600 This purpose is well accomplished..by spuddling the land with a kind of plough. 1856 J. C. Morton Cycl. Agric. (new ed.) II. (Gloss.) 726/1 Spuddling (Kent); see Broad-sharing [‘ploughing shallow and wide with a broad share, without turning it over’]. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < v.1630
随便看	to pull off to pull on to pull on a cup of wine to pull one out of the hat to pull one's card to pull one's daylights out to pull one's etc to pull one's finger out to pull one's freight to pull one's head out of one's arse to pull one's head out of one's ass to pull one's plonker to pull one's pud to pull one's pudding to pull one's punches to pull one's rank to pull one's socks up to pull one's status to pull one's stripes to pull one's top to pull one's weight to pull one's wire to pull one'the etc to pull one'the pud to pull one'the pudding