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puddles

puddles is the plural of puddle.

puddles is the third-person singular simple present indicative of puddle.

Meaning of puddle

Noun

puddle (plural puddles)

  1. A small, often temporary, pool of water, usually on a path or road.
    • Foꝛ with the only be theſe welles of lyfe, / Of frayle men ſpring but podels of myꝛe, / From whom ſourdeth errour ⁊ croked ſtrife[…]1560, “Pſalme. xxxvi”, in Matthew Parker, The whole Pſalter tranſlated into Engliſh metre […] , Iohn Daye, page 98
  2. (dialectal) Stagnant or polluted water.
    • And fast beside a little brooke did pas / Of muddie water, that like puddle stank […].1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
  3. A homogeneous mixture of clay, water, and sometimes grit, used to line a canal or pond to make it watertight.
  4. The ripple left by the withdrawal of an oar from the water.
    • I had only to see the 'puddle' to know that your paddle made it.1969, Charles Cuthbert Brown, Malay Sayings, page 88

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Phrases with puddles

Questions about puddles

What is puddles the plural of?
Puddles is the plural of puddle.

Words near puddles in the dictionary

  1. puddleful
  2. puddlefuls
  3. puddlelike
  4. puddler
  5. puddlers
  6. puddles
  7. puddles up
  8. puddlesome
  9. Puddletown
  10. puddley
  11. puddlier

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