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plum pudding, plum-pudding|ˈplʌmˈpʊdɪŋ|
A pudding containing plums. a. (= Christmas plum-pudding) spec. A boiled pudding now composed of flour, bread-crumbs, suet, raisins, currants, and other fruits, with eggs, spices, etc., sometimes flavoured with brandy or other spirit, eaten at Christmas; also, an ordinary suet pudding with raisins.
1711Vind. Sacheverell 75 This is just as proper as I had a good Plumb Pudden to day with a Mixture of Flower and Raisins. 1725De Foe Voy. round World (1840) 302, I gave the cook order to make every mess a good plum-pudding. 1772Mackenzie Man World ii. xi. (1823) 478 A plumb-pudding of a very uncommon circumference was raised conspicuous in the middle. 1797Lond. Complete Art Cookery 69 An excellent Plumb-Pudding. 1901Daily Chron. 25 Dec. 5/2 Plum-pudding gradually came into the bills of fare in the early years of the eighteenth century.
b. A pudding of fresh plums contained in a crust.
1813W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. XXXV. 233 Little Jack Horner, we fear, misapplies the word plum, when he calls a dried raisin, or currant, by that name. The bullace pudding, the prune pudding, and the damascene pudding, are better entitled to be called plum-puddings than the currant, or raisin, puddings, which have usurped that appellation. c1900Beeton's Every-day Cook. Bk., Plum Pudding. (Fresh Fruit.).. Seasonable with various kinds of plums, from the beginning of August to the beginning of October.
c. (a) attrib. and Comb. (esp. in names of things resembling a plum pudding in shape or mottled appearance), as plum-pudding head, plum pudding horse; (b) plum-pudding breed, -dog, the Dalmatian or Spotted Coach breed of dog; plum pudding mahogany, mahogany with a mottled finish; plum-pudding stone (Geol.), a term applied orig. to a conglomerate of flint pebbles embedded in a siliceo-calcareous matrix; now, loosely, to any conglomerate; plum-pudding voyage, a short voyage for which a supply of fresh provisions is carried (slang).
(a)1776Foote Capuchin i. Wks. 1799 II. 385 Wictuals! Lord help your roast beef and plum-pudding soul! 1899Westm. Gaz. 24 June 8/1 Mademoiselle has probably by this time mastered the art of plum-pudding making. 1900Ibid. 14 Feb. 8/1 ‘Mr. Goodnight’ is a plum-pudding horse with a brain as near that of a human being as it is permitted for a four-footed creature to possess. 1902Little Frolic 36 Greedy..saw two grinning little men with plum-pudding heads.
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1897Westm. Gaz. 11 Feb. 4/1 The ‘*plum-pudding’ breed, as the Dalmatian or carriage dog is commonly termed, is so well represented as to make it obvious that this breed is rapidly coming to the front again.
1881Daily News 1 Sept. 5/2 The Dalmatian pointer, commonly known as a *plum-pudding dog.
1924G. O. Wheeler Old English Furniture (ed. 3) xii. 278 The plum mottle..signifies the spotted and mottled wood known as ‘*plum-pudding’ mahogany. 1968Canad. Antiques Collector Nov. 8/2 (Advt.), Sheraton style ‘Plumb [sic] Pudding’ Mahogany cabinet..circa 1790. 1976Country Life 26 Feb. (Suppl.) 24c/1 An unusual Chippendale period supper table with two tier top. The table is of ‘Plum pudding’ mahogany, with carved detail.
1739C. Labelye Short Acc. Piers Westm. Bridge 53 Stones commonly call'd *Plumb-pudding Stones. 1813Sir H. Davy Agric. Chem. iv. (1814) 195 Plum pudding stone (a secondary rock) consisting of pebbles cemented by a ferruginous or siliceous cement.
1851H. Melville Whale xvii. 94 Some sailors who had just come from a *plum-pudding voyage as they called it.
d. (See quots.)
1851H. Melville Moby Dick III. viii. 64 Plum-pudding is the term bestowed upon certain fragmentary parts of the whale's flesh. 1904Sci. Amer. Suppl. 5 Mar. 23551/3 A muscular, fibrous substance known as ‘plum pudding’ permeates the blubber of the tongue of these two species of whales.
e. Mil. slang. A type of trench mortar shell.
1925Fraser & Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words 225 Plum pudding, the name for a type of trench mortar shell; suggested by its size and shape. 1928Blunden Undertones of War 51 Now more serious and immediate omens of ordeal appeared in the mounds of trench mortar bombs—‘plum puddings’ or ‘footballs’, steely and shining.
Hence plum-ˈpuddinger, a whaling ship employed in short voyages; cf. plum-pudding voyage; also, a member of the crew of such a ship.
1851H. Melville Moby Dick I. xvii. 137 After listening to these plum-puddingers till nearly eleven o'clock, I went up stairs to go to bed. 1874C. M. Scammon Marine Mammals ii. iv. 241 Provincetown has ever been foremost with her numerous fleet of plum-puddingers,..which are small vessels employed on short voyages in the Atlantic Ocean. 1934F. R. Dulles Lowered Boats iv. 45 Only the little ‘plum-pud'ners’ of Rhode Island remained wholly true to the Greenland whale. |