Pudder
(Pud"der) v. i. [imp. & p. p. Puddered ; p. pr. & vb. n. Puddering.] [Cf. Pother.] To make
a tumult or bustle; to splash; to make a pother or fuss; to potter; to meddle.
Puddering in the designs or doings of others.
Barrow.
Others pudder into their food with their broad nebs.
Holland. Pudder
(Pud"der), v. t. To perplex; to embarrass; to confuse; to bother; as, to pudder a man. Locke.
Pudder
(Pud"der), n. A pother; a tumult; a confused noise; turmoil; bustle. "All in a pudder." Milton.
Pudding
(Pud"ding) n. [Cf. F. boudin black pudding, sausage, L. botulus, botellus, a sausage, G. &
Sw. pudding pudding, Dan. podding, pudding, LG. puddig thick, stumpy, W. poten, potten, also E.
pod, pout, v.]
1. A species of food of a soft or moderately hard consistence, variously made, but often a compound of
flour or meal, with milk and eggs, etc.
And solid pudding against empty praise.
Pope. 2. Anything resembling, or of the softness and consistency of, pudding.
3. An intestine; especially, an intestine stuffed with meat, etc.; a sausage. Shak.
4. Any food or victuals.
Eat your pudding, slave, and hold your tongue.
Prior. 5. (Naut.) Same as Puddening.
Pudding grass (Bot.), the true pennyroyal formerly used to flavor stuffing for roast meat. Dr. Prior.
— Pudding pie, a pudding with meat baked in it. Taylor — Pudding pipe (Bot.), the long, cylindrical
pod of the leguminous tree Cassia Fistula. The seeds are separately imbedded in a sweetish pulp. See
Cassia. — Pudding sleeve, a full sleeve like that of the English clerical gown. Swift. — Pudding
stone. (Min.) See Conglomerate, n., 2. — Pudding time. (a) The time of dinner, pudding being
formerly the dish first eaten. [Obs.] Johnson. (b) The nick of time; critical time. [Obs.]
Mars, that still protects the stout,
In pudding time came to his aid.
Hudibras. Pudding-headed
(Pud"ding-head`ed) a. Stupid. [Colloq.]
Puddle
(Pud"dle) n. [OE. podel; cf. LG. pudel, Ir. & Gael. plod pool.]
1. A small quantity of dirty standing water; a muddy plash; a small pool. Spenser.
2. Clay, or a mixture of clay and sand, kneaded or worked, when wet, to render it impervious to water.
Puddle poet, a low or worthless poet. [R.] Fuller.
Puddle
(Pud"dle), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Puddled ; p. pr. & vb. n. Puddling ]
1. To make foul or muddy; to pollute with dirt; to mix dirt with
Some unhatched practice . . .
Hath puddled his clear spirit.
Shak. 2. (a) To make dense or close, as clay or loam, by working when wet, so as to render impervious to
water. (b) To make impervious to liquids by means of puddle; to apply puddle to.
