spuddle (English, verb)
expansion: spuddle (third-person singular simple present spuddles, present participle spuddling, simple past and past participle spuddled)
Senses:
glosses: To loosen and dig up stubble and weeds left after a harvest with a broadshare or similar device.
glosses: To shallowly dig or stir up in an unsystematic manner.
tags: broadly
dialectal
glosses: To make a lot of fuss about trivial things, as if they were important
tags: Southern-England
obsolete
glosses: To work ineffectively; to work hard but achieve nothing
tags: obsolete
Forms:
form: spuddles
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: spuddling
tags: participle
present
form: spuddled
tags: participle
past
form: spuddled
tags: past