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To go poking about, meddling and making, in a listless, purposeless manner. Pudder, podder, pother, bother, and puddle are varieties of the same word. To pudder is to stir with a puddering pole; hence, to confuse. Lear says of the tempest—“May the great gods that keep this dreadful pudder oʹer our head,” meaning confusion. To puddle iron is to stir it about with a puddering-pole.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Potage (Jean)
Potato-bogle
Potato-bury (A)
Potato-talk. (German, Kartoffel gesprach.)
Poteen (pron. pu-teen)
Pother
Pothooks
Potiphar’s Wife
Pots
Potter
Potwallopers
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Pound
Pound of Flesh
Poundtext (Peter)
Pourceaugnac (Monsieur de) (pron. Poor-sone-yak)
Poussin
Pouting Place of Princes (The)
Poverty … Love
Powder