Poodle vs Puddle - What's the difference?
poodle | puddle |
Any of various breeds of dog originating in Europe as hunting dogs, and having heavy, curly fur in a solid color; their shoulder height indicates their classification as standard, miniature, or toy.
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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 nouns the difference between poodle and puddle
is that poodle is any of various breeds of dog originating in Europe as hunting dogs, and having heavy, curly fur in a solid color; their shoulder height indicates their classification as standard, miniature, or toy while puddle is a small pool of water, usually on a path or road.As a verb puddle is
to form a puddle.poodle
English
(wikipedia poodle)Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (breed of dog) canis aviarius aquaticusDerived terms
(poodle crossbreeds) * cockapoo * goldendoodle * labradoodle * schnoodle * Shih-poo / Pooshih * whoodle * yorkipoo / yorkapoo, yoodle * miniature poodle * standard poodle * toy poodleAnagrams
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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.