poddle

I 've a back room looks out on the Poddle, for two shillings a week, furnished.

It lies in the Liberty, and opens upon that classic precinct called 'The Poddle.'

What she wrote was: He stepped in a poddle up to his noddle.

The door opened, and I heard Mrs. Poddle say, 'This way, gentlemen!

It is altogether likely that the word which we pronounce puddle was familiar to Mater Anser's dialect as poddle.