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Fuddle vs Puddle - What's the difference?

fuddle | puddle |

As verbs the difference between fuddle and puddle

is that fuddle is to confuse or befuddle while puddle is to form a puddle.

As nouns the difference between fuddle and puddle

is that fuddle is intoxication while puddle is a small pool of water, usually on a path or road.

fuddle

English

Verb

(fuddl)
  • To confuse or befuddle.
  • To intoxicate.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • Intoxication.
  • Muddle, confusion.
  • (rft-sense) (UK, dialect, Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Bedfordshire) A party or picnic where attendees bring food and wine; a kind of potluck.

    • 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.