Definitions for puddles

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puddles pud·dle

Spelling: [puhd-l]

IPA: /ˈpʌd l/

Puddles is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 133 anagrams from letters in puddles (ddelpsu).

Definitions for puddles

noun

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. a small pool of water, as of rainwater on the ground.
5. a small pool of any liquid.
6. 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)

1. to mark or scatter with puddles.
2. to wet with dirty water, mud, etc.
3. to make (water) muddy or dirty.
4. to muddle or confuse.
5. to make (clay or the like) into puddle.
6. to cover with pasty clay or puddle.
7. Metallurgy. to subject (molten iron) to the process of puddling.
8. to destroy the granular structure of (soil) by agricultural operations on it when it is too wet.
9. Horticulture. to dip the roots of (a tree, shrub, etc.) into a thin mixture of loam and water to retard drying out during transplanting.
10. to mark or scatter with puddles.
11. to wet with dirty water, mud, etc.
12. to make (water) muddy or dirty.
13. to muddle or confuse.
14. to make (clay or the like) into puddle.
15. to cover with pasty clay or puddle.
16. Metallurgy. to subject (molten iron) to the process of puddling.
17. to destroy the granular structure of (soil) by agricultural operations on it when it is too wet.
18. 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)

1. to wade in a puddle:
2. to be or become puddled:
3. to wade in a puddle:
4. to be or become puddled:

Origin of puddles

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

Examples for puddles

As for the Princess, she was as happy as a duck in a puddle.

The "pond" was a puddle, perhaps twenty feet across, left by the outgoing tide.

He had been lying in a puddle, and, like little Fay, he preferred "a dly place."

For some of New Yorkers, though, the dating pool can be a puddle—thanks to the “culture of honor.”

His grey hair was straggling into the puddle around his head.

May they all stand in a puddle and stick their tongues in a Prius charge port.

Then the lights went down on Bieber and his puddle of clothes.

And when he walks in, the place is dark, but he notices a puddle on the floor.

You're in the middle of a puddle now, but when you get over dreaming I'd like to mop it up.

Actors have won Oscars for sassily stepping over a puddle in period clothing (Judi Dench in Shakespeare in Love).

And when he walks in, the place is dark, but he notices a puddle on the floor.

He had been lying in a puddle, and, like little Fay, he preferred "a dly place."

For some of New Yorkers, though, the dating pool can be a puddle—thanks to the “culture of honor.”

The "pond" was a puddle, perhaps twenty feet across, left by the outgoing tide.

As for the Princess, she was as happy as a duck in a puddle.

Then the lights went down on Bieber and his puddle of clothes.

May they all stand in a puddle and stick their tongues in a Prius charge port.

You're in the middle of a puddle now, but when you get over dreaming I'd like to mop it up.

Actors have won Oscars for sassily stepping over a puddle in period clothing (Judi Dench in Shakespeare in Love).

His grey hair was straggling into the puddle around his head.