Meaning of puddleful | Babel Free

Definitions

As much as a puddle can contain.

Examples

“The responsible “we” testifies to having seen a puddleful of hair, like snakes, produced from the decomposition therein of a cow’s tail, and, with great naiveté, wonders whether the development of organic life in hairs placed in water with their roots is a fact known to science.”

““[…]By the way, I wonder where we can find any tadpoles?” “I know,” exclaimed Reed, rising quickly from the grass, on which he had again flung himself. “There’s a great puddleful of ’em up the road a piece; come along and I’ll show you.””

“If we were to carry a jug of some unclean liquid, half as filthy as tobacco spittle, and from its spout pour the contents, here a little and there a good deal, after the manner in which the slaves of the weed eject from their mouths puddlefuls of the unsightly expectoration, we would be denounced as unclean.”

“A tuna can full of water can produce mosquitoes; a puddleful can produce more mosquitoes; a swamp can produce lots more mosquitoes; Northern Ontario, which boasts an abundance of water, produces enough mosquitoes to annoy everybody.”

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