podler Sc. and north.
(ˈpəʊdlər)
Also poadler, poodler, puddler.
[An altered or differentiated form of next.]
A young coal-fish: see quot. 1838.
| 1835 S. Oliver Rambles Northumbld., etc. 23 By September they increase to about a foot in length, and are then called poodlers. 1838 Johnston in Proc. Berw. Nat. Club I. No. 6. 173 When young it is called with us the Podlie; when somewhat larger the Podler; and when full grown the Coal-sey, or Black-coal-sey. 1859 W. White Northumbld. & Border xix. 273 Codlings and puddlers. 1875 G. C. Davies Rambles Sch. Field-Club xxxv. 262 Occasionally we got a gurnet or a ‘poadler’. |