puddly, a.
(ˈpʌdlɪ)
Also 6–7 pudly, -lie, 7 pudley.
[f. puddle n. + -y.]
1. Having the quality of a puddle, or of ‘puddle’ (n. 3); muddy, turbid, as water or other liquid; more generally, Foul, dirty. Now rare or dial.
| 1559 Morwyng Evonym. 75 They will driue down the pudly matter to the bottom. 1600 Surflet Countrie Farme iv. xvi. 650 In a pudlie and troubled water. 1734 Swift Let. to Faulkener Wks. 1841 II. 725/2 It is not sufficient to see a luminary like this now shining in a meridian lustre, but anon set for ever in a puddly cloud? 1861 Clayton Frank O'Donnell 69 O to see him tossing in the mud and his fine coat and cap all puddly. |
2. Full of or abounding in puddles.
| 1857 Hughes Tom Brown i. vii, Plashing in the cold puddly ruts. 1889 J. K. Jerome Three Men ii, You find a place..not quite so puddly as other places. |