Muddled vs Puddled - What's the difference?
muddled | puddled |
Confused, disorganised, in disarray.
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(muddle)
(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 muddled and puddled
is that muddled is past tense of muddle while puddled is past tense of puddle.As an adjective muddled
is confused, disorganised, in disarray.muddled
English
Adjective
(en adjective)citation, page= , passage=The selection of James Milner ahead of Young was the product of muddled thinking and the absence of Peter Crouch - with 22 goals in 42 England appearances - from even the substitutes' bench was also a surprise.}}
Verb
(head)puddled
English
Verb
(head)puddle
English
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.