spuddle verb 4noun 4forms 3 verb4 •To loosen and dig up stubble and weeds left after a harvest with a broadshare or similar device.Do you shim those stubbles before ploughing? Answer. No; but I spuddle them, to make the ground as clean as possible. Spuddling is performed with the plough, and is of the nature of shiming. — 1785 •(dialect) To shallowly dig or stir up in an unsystematic manner.Hee grubs and spuddles for his prey in muddy holes and obscure cauernes, my Mufe ferrits base debaushed wretches in their swinish dens. — 1869 •(no longer used) To work ineffectively; to work hard but achieve nothingIn what glooın are you all left to spuddle out your way through the road of life? — 1780 •(no longer used) To make a lot of fuss about trivial things, as if they were important noun4 •A patch of wet mud or similar substance, more viscous than a puddle.'Twuz tit fer tat sure, in a spuddle uv mud , And everything plastered all over with blood. — 1920 •A mess or confusion.There you go again, making spuddle of whatever I say. — 1987 •An argument or dispute.They had a right spuddle together — poor maid was crying, like, and then ' e made off. — 1996 •A process combining spraying and puddling. formsspuddled · spuddling · spuddles
