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bepuddle en · VERB

Etymology

From be- + puddle.

Meanings

1. To cover or fill with puddles.
   • It was Saturday afternoon and raining—raining suds. State street was bepuddled from end to end—rivulets ran among its paving stones and torrents in its gutters. 1898, Frank W. Calkins, “A Girl's Exploit”, in The Conductor and Brakeman, volume 15:
   • Now, black streets the rain bepuddles, and a communion of sorts can be happily re-embraced. 1971, The Yale Literary Magazine - Volumes 141-142, page 41:
   • Several of the spigots had been left on or half on and the worm-eaten floor of the cavern was liberally bepuddled with country wine. 2011, Lawrence Durrell, Bitter Lemons of Cyprus:
2. (broadly) To soil or debase.
   • But this Antichrist has, where she rules, put all out of order ; and no wonder, for she has bepuddled the word of God ; no wonder, then, I say, if the foundations of the world be out of course. 1861, John Bunyan, The Works of John Bunyan, page 330:

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