"puddleful" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From puddle + -ful.",
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          "ref": "1875 August 22, The Observer, number 4,396, London, page 5",
          "text": "The responsible “we” testifies to having seen a puddleful of hair, like snakes, produced from the decomposition therein of a cow’s tail, and, with great naiveté, wonders whether the development of organic life in hairs placed in water with their roots is a fact known to science.",
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          "ref": "1879, Emily Hartley, “Stocking an Aquarium”, in Odd Moments of the Willoughby Boys, Philadelphia, Pa.: American Sunday-School Union, […], page 131",
          "text": "“[…]By the way, I wonder where we can find any tadpoles?” “I know,” exclaimed Reed, rising quickly from the grass, on which he had again flung himself. “There’s a great puddleful of ’em up the road a piece; come along and I’ll show you.”",
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          "ref": "1881 December 15, The Rescue, volume XIX, number 7, San Francisco, Calif., page 98",
          "text": "If we were to carry a jug of some unclean liquid, half as filthy as tobacco spittle, and from its spout pour the contents, here a little and there a good deal, after the manner in which the slaves of the weed eject from their mouths puddlefuls of the unsightly expectoration, we would be denounced as unclean.",
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        {
          "ref": "2002 August 6, “Stung by the PR bug?”, in The Sault Star, volume 90, number 120, Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., page A4",
          "text": "A tuna can full of water can produce mosquitoes; a puddleful can produce more mosquitoes; a swamp can produce lots more mosquitoes; Northern Ontario, which boasts an abundance of water, produces enough mosquitoes to annoy everybody.",
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        "As much as a puddle can contain."
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  "etymology_text": "From puddle + -ful.",
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          "ref": "1875 August 22, The Observer, number 4,396, London, page 5",
          "text": "The responsible “we” testifies to having seen a puddleful of hair, like snakes, produced from the decomposition therein of a cow’s tail, and, with great naiveté, wonders whether the development of organic life in hairs placed in water with their roots is a fact known to science.",
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          "text": "“[…]By the way, I wonder where we can find any tadpoles?” “I know,” exclaimed Reed, rising quickly from the grass, on which he had again flung himself. “There’s a great puddleful of ’em up the road a piece; come along and I’ll show you.”",
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