Guddled vs Puddled - What's the difference?
guddled | puddled |
(guddle)
To catch fish with the hands, especially by groping under stones or at the banks of a stream.
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(puddle)
A small pool of water, usually on a path or road.
* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , IV.5:
* 1624 , , Generall Historie , in Kupperman 1988, p. 90:
A homogeneous mixture of clay, water, and sometimes grit, used to line a canal or pond to make it watertight.
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
As verbs the difference between guddled and puddled
is that guddled is (guddle) while puddled is (puddle).guddled
English
Verb
(head)guddle
English
Verb
(en-verb)puddled
English
Verb
(head)puddle
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Noun
(en noun)- And fast beside a little brooke did pas / Of muddie water, that like puddle stank […].
- 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.
Verb
(puddl)- Some unhatched practice / Hath puddled his clear spirit.
