Timeline for Noun for a large puddle
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| May 4, 2019 at 23:20 | vote | accept | Raystafarian | ||
| Jan 3, 2017 at 3:43 | comment | added | 1006a | Dr Foster stepped in a puddle up to his middle, so evidently puddles can get pretty deep/big (at least in Gloucester). | |
| Jan 3, 2017 at 2:42 | history | bumped | CommunityBot | This question has answers that may be good or bad; the system has marked it active so that they can be reviewed. | |
| Dec 4, 2016 at 1:58 | answer | added | Richard Kayser | timeline score: 1 | |
| Nov 28, 2016 at 1:32 | comment | added | Hot Licks | And of course one must repeat the old joke: Frank: "It's raining cats and dogs out there." Joe: "I know. I just stepped in a poodle." | |
| Nov 28, 2016 at 1:31 | comment | added | Hot Licks | I've certainly heard (in the US) a puddle described as a "pool", but it's only so-so common. And the term does not really suggest something larger than a medium-to-large puddle. I would agree with Jim that if "huge puddle" doesn't hack it then "lake" would often be used, or "river", if the water is flowing. There is no real pecking order of terms. | |
| Nov 27, 2016 at 18:04 | answer | added | alwayslearning | timeline score: 0 | |
| Oct 8, 2016 at 4:41 | history | edited | NVZ♦ |
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| Sep 23, 2016 at 18:22 | comment | added | Barmar | @Raystafarian I haven't heard that use much, either. I like Jim's suggestion to call it a lake, I've done that myself. | |
| Sep 23, 2016 at 17:47 | comment | added | Raystafarian | @Barmar fair enough. I've just never heard anyone describe a large puddle as a pool - not that it's not correct. Maybe (USA) we don't have a different word for it. | |
| Sep 23, 2016 at 15:39 | comment | added | Barmar | I think the expected size of a "pool" depends on context. "The sink overflowed and now there's a pool of water on the floor" suggests a small amount of water, much tinier than a puddle. | |
| Sep 22, 2016 at 3:25 | comment | added | Richard Kayser | Pool captures what you're looking for perfectly. | |
| Sep 22, 2016 at 1:55 | comment | added | Drew | A large puddle is a large puddle. A pool of water of any size is a pool of water. In particular, a pool of water is likely to be considered, without further context, to be a large puddle or something larger. | |
| Sep 22, 2016 at 1:30 | comment | added | DyingIsFun | A small pond is called a pondlet. I like your idea of pool. It suggests something bigger than a puddle. | |
| Sep 22, 2016 at 1:27 | comment | added | DyingIsFun | Pond can be used as a verb to mean "(especially of water) to collect into a pond or large puddle" (www.dictionary.com/browse/pond). Notice that this definition explicitly mentions large puddles. This suggests that some people might use "pond" to mean larger puddle. | |
| Sep 22, 2016 at 1:24 | comment | added | Jim | Otherwise you just say, “The road is flooded.”. You might also say that there is standing water on the road. | |
| Sep 22, 2016 at 1:23 | comment | added | Jim | We usually go with hyperbole and say, “There’s now a lake on the corner so you’ll have to take the long way around.” | |
| Sep 22, 2016 at 1:18 | history | asked | Raystafarian | CC BY-SA 3.0 |