a small pool of water, as of rainwater on the ground.
a small pool of any liquid.
clay or the like mixed with water and tempered, used as a waterproof lining for the walls of canals, ditches, etc.
verb (used with object),pud·dled,pud·dling.
to mark or scatter with puddles.
to wet with dirty water, mud, etc.
to make (water) muddy or dirty.
to muddle or confuse.
to make (clay or the like) into puddle.
to cover with pasty clay or puddle.
Metallurgy. to subject (molten iron) to the process of puddling.
to destroy the granular structure of (soil) by agricultural operations on it when it is too wet.
Horticulture. to dip the roots of (a tree, shrub, etc.) into a thin mixture of loam and water to retard drying out during transplanting.
verb (used without object),pud·dled,pud·dling.
to wade in a puddle: The children were puddling.
to be or become puddled: The backyard was puddling.
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
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Early on in his research for the company, Rogers—a materials scientist—wanted to understand why if you left a strawberry on the counter it would turn into a puddle, while a lemon would remain unchanged.
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When I poured out the bottles chilled in clean ice, I just got a puddle of water around my ice cube.
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If the water isn’t cold enough, though, you just get a lonely ice cube in a puddle of water.
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May they all stand in a puddle and stick their tongues in a Prius charge port.
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And when he walks in, the place is dark, but he notices a puddle on the floor.
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For some of New Yorkers, though, the dating pool can be a puddle—thanks to the “culture of honor.”