spuddle
名词 n.
动词 v.
英文释义
名词 n.
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A mess or confusion.
— There you go again, making spuddle of whatever I say.
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A patch of wet mud or similar substance, more viscous than a puddle.
— 'Twuz tit fer tat sure, in a spuddle uv mud , And everything plastered all over with blood.
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An argument or dispute.
— They had a right spuddle together — poor maid was crying, like, and then ' e made off.
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A process combining spraying and puddling.
— A steady stream rather than a mist may be projected onto the wafer, or dispense may occur without rotation to form a “puddle." There is also a combination puddle and spray technique called “spuddle” developing.
动词 v.
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To loosen and dig up stubble and weeds left after a harvest with a broadshare or similar device.
— Do you shim those stubbles before ploughing? Answer. No; but I spuddle them, to make the ground as clean as possible. Spuddling is performed with the plough, and is of the nature of shiming.
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To shallowly dig or stir up in an unsystematic manner.
— Instead of an "occasional gardener" to trim up the walks, and to hoe, your wife will be as happy as a queen, and your daughters as princesses, to spuddle about now and then, and have little flower gardens, and herb beds.
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To make a lot of fuss about trivial things, as if they were important
— During all the years that I spuddled around in a porcelain bath tub in a city I was given to regarding the farmer somewhat as the caricaturist, who wears his spring overcoat all winter and sells jokes for 10 cents each to the newspapers, painted him.
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To work ineffectively; to work hard but achieve nothing
— In what glooın are you all left to spuddle out your way through the road of life?
词源
词源 1
Possibly from the Middle English term for a short knife, by extension, leading to the shallow plow, and from there to other more metaphoric meanings. Related to spud.
词源 2
Related to puddle
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