mud puddle
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- noun
- /mʌd ˈpʌdəl/
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- After the rain, the children splashed happily in the mud puddle in the park.
- step through a mud puddle
- foot-deep mud puddle
Examples
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Little Dickie Smith, my friend, he and I sat in a mud puddle under this tree.
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Guess how many mud puddles there are between your driveway and your porch.
Fiction book (2002) -
Looks like you ran through every mud puddle in town.
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I had to make a forced landing in a mud puddle.
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The ground was still damp, but the sun had dried most of the mud puddles.
Fiction book (1994) -
Billy looks down at the mud puddle he's standing in.
Fiction book (1995) -
Looks like you've been jumping through mud puddles.
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She crawled under the fence to her mud puddle.
Fiction book (1997) -
A board spanned the mud puddle beneath, supporting a bucket to catch drips.
Fiction book (1997) -
My mother dug a hole, or my dad did, that we could sit in in the hot weather, and they'd fill it with, you know, water from the hose, and we'd sit in this mud puddle.
Synonyms
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A small area where liquid, light, or things collect on a surface
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A small pool of water on the ground
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A hole in the ground filled with mud
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a small pool of muddy water' is directly derivable from combining 'mud' (sticky wet earth) with 'puddle' (shallow pool of water); the compound simply specifies the type of puddle. This is a transparent, compositional noun compound following common English and cross-linguistic patterns, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Mud puddle is a simple picture: mud (soft wet earth) and puddle (a small pool). People put the two words together to name the wet spot that forms after rain, so it means 'a small pool of muddy water'.