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puddly, a.|ˈpʌdlɪ|
Also 6–7 pudly, -lie, 7 pudley.
[f. puddle n. + -y.]
1. Having the quality of a puddle, or of ‘puddle’ (n. 3); muddy, turbid, as water or other liquid; more generally, Foul, dirty. Now rare or dial.
1559Morwyng Evonym. 75 They will driue down the pudly matter to the bottom. 1600Surflet Countrie Farme iv. xvi. 650 In a pudlie and troubled water. 1734Swift Let. to Faulkener Wks. 1841 II. 725/2 It is not sufficient to see a luminary like this now shining in a meridian lustre, but anon set for ever in a puddly cloud? 1861Clayton Frank O'Donnell 69 O to see him tossing in the mud and his fine coat and cap all puddly.
2. Full of or abounding in puddles.
1857Hughes Tom Brown i. vii, Plashing in the cold puddly ruts. 1889J. K. Jerome Three Men ii, You find a place..not quite so puddly as other places. |