puddleful

Noun

puddleful (plural puddlefuls)

1. As much as a puddle can contain.
   • The responsible “we” testifies to having seen a puddleful of hair, like snakes, produced from the decomposition therein of a cow’s tail, and, with great naiveté, wonders whether the development of organic life in hairs placed in water with their roots is a fact known to science.1875 August 22, The Observer, number 4,396, London, page 5
   • “[…]By the way, I wonder where we can find any tadpoles?” “I know,” exclaimed Reed, rising quickly from the grass, on which he had again flung himself. “There’s a great puddleful of ’em up the road a piece; come along and I’ll show you.”1879, Emily Hartley, “Stocking an Aquarium”, in Odd Moments of the Willoughby Boys, Philadelphia, Pa.: American Sunday-School Union, […], page 131