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発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈpʌdə(ɹ)/

  韻: -ʌdə(ɹ)

名詞

pudder (複数形 pudders)

1. A confused noise; turmoil; bustle; tumult.
   • 1641 May, John Milton, Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England: And the Cavvses that hitherto have Hindred it; republished as Will Taliaferro Hale, editor, Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England (Yale Studies in English; LIV), New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1916, OCLC 260112239:

     All in a pudder.

動詞

pudder (三人称単数 現在形 pudders, 現在分詞 puddering, 過去形および過去分詞形 puddered)

1. (transitive) To perplex; to embarrass; to confuse; to bother.
   • a. 1705, John Locke, “Of the Conduct of the Understanding”, in Posthumous Works of Mr. John Locke: […], London: […] A[wnsham] and J[ohn] Churchill, […], published 1706, OCLC 6963663:

     that can be of no other use but to perplex and pudder him if he compares them

2. (intransitive) To make a tumult or bustle; to splash; to make a pother or fuss.
   • a. 1677, Isaac Barrow, Of Quietness, and doing our own Business (sermon)

     Puddering in the designs or doings of others.

   • 1601, Philemon Holland, The Historie of the World, commonly called the Naturall Historie (originally by Pliny the Elder)

     Others pudder into their food with their broad nebs.