bepuddling

Verb

bepuddle (third-person singular simple present bepuddles, present participle bepuddling, simple past and past participle bepuddled)

1. To cover or fill with puddles.
   • It was Saturday afternoon and raining—raining suds. State street was bepuddled from end to end—rivulets ran among its paving stones and torrents in its gutters.1898, Frank W. Calkins, “A Girl's Exploit”, in The Conductor and Brakeman, volume 15
2. (broadly) To soil or debase.
   • But this Antichrist has, where she rules, put all out of order ; and no wonder, for she has bepuddled the word of God ; no wonder, then, I say, if the foundations of the world be out of course.1861, John Bunyan, The Works of John Bunyan, page 330