Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Like the water of a puddle; muddy; foul; dirty.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Consisting of, or resembling, puddles; muddy; foul.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Consisting of, or resembling,
puddles ;muddy ;foul .
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Examples
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Best check your economic history there, puddly and see where our economy actually grew.
Think Progress » McCain refuses to condemn Palin’s ‘reload’ rhetoric. 2010
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Their little bare feet go slap slap on the puddly concrete.
Smile for the Camera Kelle James 2010
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Why there is no man when we go shopping, get groceries, tromp through puddly parks and eat brunch at our own table.
blog: November 2007 2007
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This morning's galoshes special is the type of wet and puddly cloud juice that we let our visitors, tourists and Californians think we must deal with day by day by day, if only to perpetuate rainy city myth, a sneaky move aimed at preventing more peeps from moving to our town and taking our already limited street parking spaces.
Seattle Bon Vivant: 2005
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Ridge-riding, Wayne explains, saves gas in the rain, as it gets the wheels out of the puddly grooves in the road created by more, let's say, traditional drivers.
Clever Driver And Car Shopper Roundup - The Consumerist 2007
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Why there is no man when we go shopping, get groceries, tromp through puddly parks and eat brunch at our own table.
blog: Idealism 2007
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Sydney, in fact, has puddle stomped at the very park that the Ramona statue resides in all her puddly glory.
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So they tried back slowly and sorrowfully, and found the lane, and went limping down it, plashing in the cold puddly ruts, and beginning to feel how the run had taken it out of them.
Tom Brown's Schooldays Hughes, Thomas, 1822-1896 1971
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Instead, the mists of passion steamed up out of the puddly concupiscence of the flesh, and the hot imagination of puberty, and they so obscured and overcast my heart that I was unable to distinguish pure affection from unholy desire.
Confessions and Enchiridion, newly translated and edited by Albert C. Outler 345-430 1955
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To my poor, travel-worn feet, it was luxury after the puddly, uneven road.
The Beetle Richard Marsh
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