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say it: PUHD-uhl
puddle is a verb and noun meaning "wade or dabble in a puddle". It carries 12 recorded senses.
work a wet mixture, such as concrete or mud
make a puddle by splashing water
eliminate urine
“Again, the cat had made on the expensive rug”
a mixture of wet clay and sand that can be used to line a pond and that is impervious to water when dry
a small body of standing water (rainwater) or other liquid
“there were puddles of muddy water in the road after the rain”
“the body lay in a pool of blood”
something resembling a pool of liquid
“he stood in a pool of light”
“his chair sat in a puddle of books and magazines”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for puddle come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.