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a sky fragment that landed on the sidewalk and refuses to apologize for it.
means A small, shallow pool of liquid—usually rainwater—collected in a dip or hollow on the ground.
from A diminutive of Old English 'pudd,' meaning a ditch or furrow—essentially a 'little pudd.' That same root likely feeds into the dialect word 'plash' and possibly the German 'Pudel,' the dog (the Poodle) literally named for its love of splashing in water.
- depth illusion
- Drivers misjudge them constantly, which is why you're soaked.
- tiny ecosystem
- Mosquitoes breed in days inside a single one.
- sky mirror
- Reflects clouds perfectly until a shoe destroys everything.
- word origin
- From Old English 'pudd,' meaning ditch or furrow.
- frog magnet
- Temporary pools let amphibians breed without fish predators.
for instance
puddles on titan — liquid methane-ethane bodies discovered by cassini spacecraft on saturn's moon, first confirmed extraterrestrial surface liquids in 2007
death valley badwater basin — temporary salt water puddles that form at 282 feet below sea level, lowest point in north america