puddle: [14] Old English pudd, a word of unknown origin but related to German dialect pfudel ‘puddle’, denoted ‘ditch, furrow’, and puddle was a diminutive formed from it. In Middle English, it was often used for quite large bodies of water, what we would now call a pond or pool, but by the 17th century it had largely narrowed down to its present-day meaning. => poodle
puddle (n.)
early 14c., "small pool of dirty water," frequentative or diminutive of Old English pudd "ditch," related to German pudeln "to splash in water" (compare poodle). Originally used of pools and ponds as well.
puddle (v.)
"to dabble in water, poke in mud," mid-15c., from puddle (n.); extended sense in iron manufacture is "turn and stir (molten iron) in a furnace." Related: Puddled; puddling.
雙語例句
1. The dog licked up water in a puddle.
狗舔水坑中的水喝.
來自《現代漢英綜合大詞典》
2. She used to make all these chocolate puddle puddings, you know, with the sauce underneath and all this sort of thing.
她過去喜歡做巧克力夾心布丁，你知道吧，就是裏麵有巧克力醬之類的東西的。
來自柯林斯例句
3. I was wet and I must somewhere have stepped in a puddle.
我身上濕了,一定是在什麽地方踩進過水坑.
來自辭典例句
4. The boy hopped the mud puddle and ran down the walk.