Puddled vs Cuddled - What's the difference?
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As verbs the difference between puddled and cuddled is that puddled is ( puddle) while cuddled is ( cuddle).
Other Comparisons: What's the difference?
puddled English
Verb
(head)
(puddle)
puddle English
Noun
( en noun)
A small pool of water, usually on a path or road.
* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , IV.5:
- And fast beside a little brooke did pas / Of muddie water, that like puddle stank […].
* 1624 , , Generall Historie , in Kupperman 1988, p. 90:
- searching their habitations for water, we could fill but three barricoes, and that such puddle , that never till then we ever knew the want of good water.
A homogeneous mixture of clay, water, and sometimes grit, used to line a canal or pond to make it watertight.
Verb
( puddl)
To form a puddle.
To play or splash in a puddle.
To process iron by means of puddling.
To line a canal with puddle (clay).
To collect ideas, especially abstract concepts, into rough subtopics or categories, as in study, research or conversation.
To make (clay, loam, etc.) dense or close, by working it when wet, so as to render impervious to water.
To make foul or muddy; to pollute with dirt; to mix dirt with (water).
* Shakespeare
- Some unhatched practice / Hath puddled his clear spirit.
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cuddled English
Verb
(head)
(cuddle)
cuddle English
Noun
( en noun)
A snuggle; an affectionate embrace, often given to family members and close friends.
Verb
To embrace affectionately, lie together snugly.
- The young lovers cuddled on the couch.
To cradle in one's arms so as to give comfort, warmth.
- She cuddled the infant before bedtime.
- I'm cold; can you roll over here and cuddle me, honey?
To lie close or snug; to crouch; to nestle.
* Prior
- She cuddles low beneath the brake; / Nor would she stay, nor dares she fly.
Derived terms
* cuddlable
* cuddler
* cuddlesome
* cuddle up
* cuddly
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