英语词汇“spuddle”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

单词

spuddle

释义

ˈspuddle, v. Now dial.
[Alteration of puddle v.; in later use partly f. spud n. 3.]
1. intr. To puddle, in various senses; to work feebly or ineffectively.
1630J. Taylor (Water P.) Water Cormorant Wks. iii. 1/3 Hee grubs and spuddles for his prey in muddy holes and obscure cauernes.1704J. Pitts Acc. Moham. vii. 103 In the very place where the Child spuddled with his Feet, the Water flowed out.1830Cobbett Rur. Rides (1885) II. 314 The labourers who spuddle about the ground in the little dips between those sand-hills.1883–in dialect glossaries (Hants., Wilts., Som., Dev.).
2. trans. To turn over, dig up, stir or work at, lightly or superficially.
1805R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. II. 600 This purpose is well accomplished..by spuddling the land with a kind of plough.1856Morton Cycl. Agric. II. 726 Spuddling (Kent); see Broad-sharing [‘ploughing shallow and wide with a broad share, without turning it over’].1875–in dialect glossaries (Warw., Suss., Som., Dev.).

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