Pronounced: uh-PAH-fuh-suhs, noun
Notes: I knew this thing, but not this word for it
Yesterday’s word
The word spuddle means, as a verb, “to work feebly”. As a noun, it means “a feeble action or movement”.
First usage
Our word came into English in the mid-1600s
Background / Comments
It turns out that our word IS a combination of “spud” and “puddle”, but “spud” refers to a dagger or a digging instrument, not a potato. It is not clear how these two words together came to have the meaning it does.
