Lexicographical Neighbors of Puddering
Literary usage of Puddering
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"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 o'er our head," ..."
2. An essay concerning human understanding by John Locke (1838)
"... have avoided thereby a great part of that perplexing, puddering, and confusion,
which have so much hindered men's progress in other parts of knowledge. ..."
3. An essay concerning human understanding by John Locke (1823)
"... have avoided thereby a great part of that perplexity, puddering, and confusion,
which has so much hindred men's progress in other parts of knowledge. ..."
4. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke (1894)
"As Bacon nevertheless encouraged s See Bk. III. chh. ix, x. men to do, when he
invited them to *' puddering'— ..."
5. The Works of John Locke by John Locke (1823)
"... have avoided thereby a great part of that perplexity, puddering, and confusion,
which has so much hindered men's progress in other parts of knowledge. ..."
6. The Overland Monthly by Bret Harte (1872)
"At the stern they burn and polish out a neat little bracket, which serves as a
seat for the boatman. They spend an infinity of puddering on ..."
7. The Works of Charles Lamb by Charles Lamb (1852)
"One feels the ashes of Wickliffe gliding away out of the reach of the Sumners,
Commissaries, Officials, Proctors, Doctors, and all the puddering rout of ..."
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