Definition of Pudder

1. v. i. To make a tumult or bustle; to splash; to make a pother or fuss; to potter; to meddle.

2. v. t. To perplex; to embarrass; to confuse; to bother; as, to pudder a man.

3. n. A pother; a tumult; a confused noise; turmoil; bustle.

Definition of Pudder

1. Noun. A confused noise; turmoil; bustle; tumult. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Pudder

1. to fluster [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: fluster

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pudder

puckish
puckishly
puckishness
puckishnesses
puckle
puckles
puckout
pucks
puckster
pucksters
pudden
pudden-head
puddening
puddens
pudder (current term)
puddered
puddering
pudders
puddies
puddin'
pudding
pudding-basin
pudding-face
pudding-headed
pudding-wife
pudding basin
pudding basin haircut
pudding basins
pudding berry

Literary usage of Pudder

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary, Historical and by John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley (1902)
"Some almost always pudder in the mud Of sleepy pools. 1609. ... Able enough to lay the dust and pudder in antiquity, which he and bis, out of stratagem, ..."

2. A Dictionary of English Etymology by Hensleigh Wedgwood, John Christopher Atkinson (1872)
"The resemblance to powder is merely accidental, and pudder is probably a ... Da. dial, pulse, to stir up water ; puls, pudder or thickness of the air or ..."

3. A Dictionary of English Etymology by Hensleigh Wedgwood, John Christopher Atkinson (1872)
"The resemblance to powder is merely accidental, and pudder is probably a ... Da. dial, pulse, to stir up water ; puls, pudder or thickness of the air or ..."

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