bepuddle

present singular third person bepuddles · participle present bepuddling · participle past bepuddled · past bepuddled

1. To cover or fill with puddles.

   Now, black streets the rain bepuddles, and a communion of sorts can be happily re-embraced.

   1971, The Yale Literary Magazine - Volumes 141-142, page 41

   2 more examples

   It was Saturday afternoon and raining—raining suds. State street was bepuddled from end to end—rivulets ran among its paving stones and torrents in its gutters.

   1898, Frank W. Calkins, “A Girl's Exploit”, in The Conductor and Brakeman, volume 15

   Several of the spigots had been left on or half on and the worm-eaten floor of the cavern was liberally bepuddled with country wine.

   2011, Lawrence Durrell, Bitter Lemons of Cyprus

2. broadlyTo soil or debase.

   But this Antichrist has, where she rules, put all out of order ; and no wonder, for she has bepuddled the word of God ; no wonder, then, I say, if the foundations of the world be out of course.

   1861, John Bunyan, The Works of John Bunyan, page 330