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▪ I. pudding, n.|ˈpʊdɪŋ|
Forms: 3–4 poding, 4–6 podyng, (6 -ynge), puddyng; 5 podding, -yng, (6 -ynge); poodyng; puddingh; 5–6 puddynge; 6 pooding, pooddyng, Sc. puding; 6– pudding, (6 -inge, 6–9 dial. and vulgar pudden, -in, 8 puden).
[ME. poding, puddyng: derivation uncertain: see Note below.]
I.
1. a. The stomach or one of the entrails of a pig, sheep, or other animal, stuffed with a mixture of minced meat, suet, oatmeal, seasoning, etc., boiled and kept till needed; a kind of sausage: for different varieties, see black, hog's, white pudding. Now chiefly Sc. and dial.
c1305Land Cokayne 59 Þe pinnes beþ fat podinges Rich met to princez and kinges. 1377Langl. P. Pl. B. xiii. 62 He eet many sondry metes, mortrewes and puddynges. c1430Two Cookery-bks. 42 Puddyng of purpaysse..putte þis in þe Gutte of þe purpays. c1440Promp. Parv. 220/2 Hagas, puddynge (S. hakkys, puddyngys). 1530Palsgr. 259 Puddyng, boudayn. Ibid. 265 Sausedge a podyng. 1584Cogan Haven Health cxlix. (1636) 146 Of the inward of beasts are made Puddings, which are best of an hog. 1592Nashe Four Lett. Confut. (1593) 28 Euery thing hath an end, and a pudding hath two. 1615Markham Eng. Housew. (1660) 178 Pudding which is called the Haggas or Haggus, of whose goodnesse it is vain to boast. 1617Moryson Itin. iii. ii. iii. 81 In lower Germany they supply the meale with bacon and great dried puddings, which puddings are sauory and so pleasant. 1659Howell Proverbs, Lett. Advice, There must be Suet as well as Oatmeal to make a Pudding. 1712Addison Spect. No. 269 ⁋8 He had sent a string of Hogs-puddings..to every poor Family in the Parish. 17..‘Get up & bar the door’ vii, in Herd (1776), And first they ate the white puddings, And then they ate the black. a1801R. Gall Elegy Pudding Lizzie vii, The puddings, bairns, are just in season—They're newly made. 1819Sporting Mag. V. 32 In Suffolk, black puddings made in guts are called links.
†b. A stuffing like the above, roasted within the body of the animal. Obs.
1596Shakes. 1 Hen. IV, ii. iv. 498 That rosted Manning Tree Oxe with the Pudding in his Belly. 1771E. Long Trial of Dog ‘Porter’ in Hone's Every-day Bk. II. 203 His worship had him [a hare] roasted, with a pudding in his belly.
2. (Chiefly pl.) The bowels, entrails, guts. Now dial. and Sc. [So OF. bodeyn, bowel, 14th c. in Godef.]
1444Coventry Leet Bk. 208 Quod nullus deinceps lavet lez poodynges ad le condites sub consimili pena. 1530Lyndesay Test. Papyngo 1157 Tak thare, said he, the puddyngis, for thy parte. 1573L. Lloyd Marrow of Hist. (1653) 245 The Fox..did bite and scratch the young man so sore, that his puddings gushed out of his side. 1597Lowe Chirurg. (1634) 107 They [windy tumours] are sometimes in the..capacity betwixt the puddings and periton. 1796Pegge Anonym. (1809) 356 An antient monument in stone, of a Knight lying prostrate in armour, with what they call his puddings, or guts, twisted round his left arm, and hanging down to his belly. 1847Le Fanu T. O'Brien 255 Dar to touch me,—and I'll let the light into your puddens.
†3.
a. ? Some kind of artificial light or firework.
b. A kind of fuse for exploding a mine. (Cf. F. boudin and saucisson in Littré.) Obs.
1527in Sharp Cov. Myst. (1825) 185 Payd to hym þat bayre þe podyngs for bothe nyghts..vj d. 1549Ibid., Payd to þ⊇ boye þat bere þ⊇ podyngs j d. 1691Treaty betw. Eng. & Denmark in Magens Insurances (1755) II. 634 Under Contraband Goods are understood..Cannons, Muskets,..Granadoes, Puddings, Torches, Carriages for Ordnance.
4. Naut.
a. A wreath of plaited cordage placed round the mast and yards of a ship as a support; a dolphin.
b. A pad to prevent damage to the gunwale of a boat; a fender.
c. The binding on rings, etc., to prevent the chafing of cables or hawsers. (So F. boudin.)
a1625Nomencl. Navalis (Harl. MS. 2301) lf. 59 b, Puddings, are Roapes nailde rounde to the Yarde-armes..close to the ende..to saue the Robbins from galling a sunder vpon y⊇ yards... Also the seruing of the Anchor with Roapes to saue the Clincke of the Cabill from galling against the Iron is called the Pudding of the Anchor. 1706E. Ward Wooden World Diss. (1708) 80 Shew me the Gentleman, crys he, that can knot or splice, or make a Pudding as it should be. 1886R. C. Leslie Sea-painter's Log 149 The bow of such boats is protected by a large fixed fender, or ‘pudding’ of cocoa-nut-fibre rope.
5. fig.
a. Applied to a stout thick-set person.
1789E. Butler Diary 7 Oct. in G. H. Bell Hamwood Papers (1930) 231 A great fat pudding boy brought some. 1858Hawthorne Fr. & It. Note-Bks. II. 31 What could possibly have stirred up this pudding of a woman? 1903[see non-significant a.]. 1980A. Cornelisen Flight from Torregreca xi. 267 She is a sallow pudding of a child with a broad flat face.
b. coarse slang. The penis.
1719T. D'Urfey Wit & Mirth III. 73, I made a request to prepare again, That I might continue in Love with the strain Of his Pudding. 1961,1970[see pull v. 20 i]. 1972[see pud n.3 2].
c. slang. A fœtus; in phr. a pudding in the oven (and similar phrases), a child conceived but not yet born. Cf. bun n.2 1.
1937Partridge Dict. Slang 665/1 With a bellyful of marrow-pudding,..pregnant. 1965J. Porter Dover Two vi. 75 ‘None of us ever suspected that she'd got a pudding in the oven.’ ‘She was going to have a baby?’ asked Dover. 1966‘L. Lane’ ABZ of Scouse 112 She's got a pudden in ther uvving, she is pregnant.
II.
6. A preparation of food of a soft or moderately firm consistency, in which the ingredients, animal or vegetable, are either mingled in a farinaceous basis (chiefly of flour), or are enclosed in a farinaceous ‘crust’ (cf. dumpling), and cooked by boiling or steaming. Preparations of batter, milk and eggs, rice, sago, tapioca, and other farinaceous substances, suitably seasoned, and cooked by baking, are now also called puddings.
The earliest use (connecting this with 1) apparently implied the boiling of the composition in a bag or cloth (pudding-bag or -cloth), as is still often done; but the term has been extended to similar preparations otherwise boiled or steamed, and finally to things baked, so that its meaning and application are now rather indefinite.
a. with a and pl., as an individual thing. Now usu. in British English, the sweet course following the main course of a meal, ‘afters’.
1544T. Phaer Regim. Lyfe (1545) 80 b, Take oyle of roses, crumes of bread, yolkes of egges, & cowes mylke, wyth a litle saffron, seeth them togyther a lytle as ye wolde make a pudding. 1589Rider Bibl. Schol. 1162 A pudding made of milke, cheese, and herbs, moretum, herbosum moretum. 1692Tryon Good House-w. ix. 75 In Puddens it is usual to mix Flower, Eggs, Milk, Raisins or Currants, and sometimes both Spice, Suet, the Fat or Marrow of Flesh, and several other things. 1732Pope Ep. Bathurst 346 One solid dish his week-day meal affords, An added pudding solemniz'd the Lord's. 1736–7Ld. Castledurrow Let. to Swift 17 Jan., Your puddings..are the best sweet thing I ever eat. 1747H. Glasse Cookery vii. 70 In boiled Puddings, take great Care the Bag or Cloth be very clean... If you boil them in Wooden-bowls, or China-dishes, butter the Inside before you put in your Batter: And all baked Puddings, butter the Pan or Dish, before the Pudding is put in. 1755Johnson, Pudding, a kind of food very variously compounded, but generally made of meal, milk, and eggs. 1851Rep. Juries Gt. Exhibition (1852) 55 United States.—Maize-flour, commonly called..‘corn-flour’ in the U.S...is extensively used for puddings and other purposes in that country. 1909, etc. [see afters n. pl.]. 1940S. Spender Backward Son 12 At lunch there was fruit salad, his favourite pudding. 1954Good Housek. Cookery Bk. (rev. ed.) ii. 284 In this section will be found the recipes for suet and sponge puddings, and for some miscellaneous baked puddings. 1968New Society 22 Aug. 266/2 Another course of a meal is called ‘sweet’ by the non-U... The U word for the course is pudding. 1974E. Ayrton Cookery of England x. 430 Our grandfathers, even our fathers, expected a ‘pudding’ at least once a day, sometimes twice.
b. Without a or pl., as name of the substance.
1670Eachard Cont. Clergy 87 Mr. Clerk's Lives of famous men,..such as Mr. Carter of Norwich, that used to eat such abundance of pudden. 1685S. Wesley Maggots, Tobacco Pipe, For that can best as you may quickly prove Settle the wit, as Pudding settles Love. 1716Pope Let. to Earl Burlington, If you can dine upon a piece of beef, together with a slice of pudding. a1721Prior Merry Andrew 33 Mind neither good nor bad, nor right nor wrong, But eat your pudding, slave, and hold your tongue. 1876G. Meredith Beauch. Career xviii, Our English pudding, a fortuitous concourse of all the sweets in the grocer's shop. Mod. Pudding is usually eaten after meat.
c. With defining word, expressing the essential ingredient, as apple-pudding, bread-pudding, fish-pudding, lemon-pudding, marrow-pudding, meat-pudding, milk-pudding, pease-pudding, plum-pudding, potato-pudding, rice-pudding, sago-pudding, steak-pudding, suet-pudding, etc. Also Christmas pudding (Christmas 4), Sussex pudding, Yorkshire pudding. (See also these words.)
1616[see marrow n.1 5]. 1711[see plum pudding]. 1726Arbuthnot Diss. Dumpling 6 The many sorts of Pudding he made, such as Plain Pudding, Plumb Pudding, Marrow Pudding, Oatmeal Pudding, Carrot Pudding, Saucesage Pudding, Bread Pudding, Flower Pudding, Suet Pudding. 1747H. Glasse Cookery vii. 68 Calf's-Foot Pudding. Ibid. 697 Stake-Pudding... Let your Stakes be..Beef or Mutton. 1769Mrs. Raffald Eng. Housekpr. (1778) 181 To make a Yorkshire Pudding to bake under Meat. 1825–9Mrs. Sherwood Lady of Manor IV. xxiv. 142 Their having a tansy pudding at Easter. 1862Mrs. H. Wood Mrs. Hallib. ii. iii, A delicious lemon pudding. 1883Harper's Mag. Apr. 654/1 A Sussex pudding, or great boiled dumpling filled with meat instead of fruit.
d. Proverb. (See also proof n. 4.)
1682N. O. Boileau's Lutrin iii. Argt. 23 The proof of th' Pudding's seen i' th' eating. 1790Windham Speeches Parl. 4 Mar. (1812) I. 189 Let us..apply to the British Constitution a homely adage,..—that ‘the proof of the pudding is in the eating’. 1900Athenæum 21 July 97/3 After all, the proof of a pudding is in the eating.
7. fig.
a. Material reward or advantage: esp. in allit. antithesis to praise. (Without a or pl.)
1728Pope Dunc. i. 54 Where, in nice balance, truth with gold she weighs, And solid pudding against empty praise. 1821Byron Juan iii. lxxix, He turn'd, preferring pudding to no praise. 1843Carlyle Past & Pr. i. iv, Your own degree of worth or talent, is it..measurable by the conquest of praise or pudding it has brought you to?
b. U.S. slang. Something easy to accomplish.
1887G. W. Walling Recoll. N.Y. Chief of Police xix. 262 It was an ‘inside’ job from the start... In thieves' slang it was a ‘pudding’;..the vault, although apparently impregnable, was easy to enter, [etc.]. 1942Berrey & Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §255/1 Something easy,..pudding. 1974Guidelines to Volunteer Services (N.Y. State Dept. Correctional Services) 42 Puddin, light action, easy.
8. transf.
a. Anything of the consistency or appearance of a pudding (in sense 6).
1731P. Shaw Three Ess. Artif. Philos. 61 Without the..danger of making what, in the Language of Distillers, is termed a Pudding. 1757A. Cooper Distiller i. i. (1760) 5 Danger of coagulating the Malt, or what Distillers call, making a Pudding. 1902Cornish Naturalist Thames 92 The soaking rains have made a pudding, even of the pasture.
b. spec. (In recovering oil from waste suds.)
1884W. S. B. McLaren Spinning (ed. 2) 51 Tanks are prepared to receive the suds... The thicker portion at the bottom is..run into a filter-bed of sand and gravel, through which the..water gradually filters, leaving the solid and greasy matter behind. This is laid in cloths and called ‘puddings’, which are pressed in hydraulic or steam presses till all the oil is squeezed out.
c. slang. A pudding-shaped bomb.
1919Athenæum 25 July 664/1 Pudding, i.e. our 60 lb. bomb.
9. slang. Poisoned or drugged liver, etc. used by burglars, dog-stealers, etc. to destroy dogs or render them insensible. (Cf. pudding v.1, quot. 1858.)
1887Horsley Jottings fr. Jail i. 17 There was a great tyke lying in front of the door, so I pulled out a piece of pudding..and threw it to him. 1891Daily News 29 Jan. 7/1 He was found in possession of a dog collar and lead, a muzzle, and a quantity of prepared liver known as ‘pudding’.
†10. = jack-pudding. Obs.
c1675Villiers (Dk. Buckhm.) Sat. Follies Age Wks. (1752) 111 And play the pudding in a May-day farce. a1680Butler Rem. (1759) I. 163 No Pudding shall be suffer'd to be witty, Unless it be in order to raise Pity.
III. 11. attrib. and Comb. a. Of a pudding or puddings, as pudding course, pudding-eater, pudding-eating, pudding-maker, pudding-manufactory, pudding-race (race n.2 9); also pudding-like, pudding-shaped adjs.b. Used in the making or consumption of pudding, as pudding-book, pudding-bowl, pudding-cloth, pudding-crock, pudding-dish, pudding fork, pudding-mould, pudding-pan, pudding-plate, pudding rice, pudding-spoon, pudding-stick.
1865(title) Massey and Son's Comprehensive *Pudding Book, containing above one thousand Recipes.
a1584Tom Thumbe 89 in Hazl. E.P.P. II. 181 He sate vpon the *Pudding-Boule, the candle for to hold. 1895Kipling 2nd Jungle Bk. (ed. Tauchn.) 177 Bylot's Island stands above the ice like a pudding-bowl wrong side up.
1845E. Acton Mod. Cookery xii. 255 The bird..wrapped in a thin *pudding-cloth, closely tied at both ends. 1868M. Jewry Warne's Model Cookery 482 A pudding⁓cloth must be kept very clean. 1971Country Life 17 June 1537/2 He tried to do it with oddments of coloured knitting wools on a pudding cloth.
1948‘J. Tey’ Franchise Affair iv. 40 The gentle monologue went on, all through the *pudding course.
1495Will of Geffereys (Somerset Ho.), *Podding crokke.
1829Longfellow in Life (1891) I. 163 The Devil, dressed like a collier, with smutty face and *pudding-dish hat.
1726Arbuthnot Diss. Dumpling 23 Let not Englishmen therefore be asham'd of the Name of *Pudding-Eaters.
Ibid. 6 In the Esteem of this *Pudding-eating Monarch.
1896Woman's Life 15 Aug. 368/1 If the *pudding-spoon and fork are grasped from beneath instead of from above, the awkward uplifting of the elbows will be avoided. 1914Joyce Dubliners 255 Freddy Malins beat time with his pudding-fork.
1540Palsgr. Acolastus L iij, The pulters, cokes, *puddyng makers. 1726Arbuthnot Diss. Dumpling 5 This John Brand, or Jack Pudding,..his Fame had reached France, whose King would have given the World to have had our Jack for his Pudding-Maker.
1874L. Carr Jud. Gwynne I. iv. 116 If not in the way of your *pudding manufactory.
1904Daily Chron. 19 July 8/5 Lining a *pudding-mould with thin slices of bread and butter.
1662R. Mathew Unl. Alch. §116. 190 In an old *pudding pan, or a frying-pan, keep them always stirring.
1844Dickens Mart. Chuz. ix, The *pudding-plates had been washed in a little tub.
1787Burns To a Haggis 2 Fair fa' your honest sonsie face, Great chieftain o' the *puddin-race!
1974Times 10 Jan. 10/1 Long grain and short or round grain, often called ‘*pudding’ rice.
1895W. Robinson Eng. Flower Garden (ed. 4) v. 75 A great many delightful plants..in many cases are jammed into *pudding-shaped masses void of form or grace. 1976S. Wales Echo 23 Nov., A pudding-shaped mound in Energlyn near Caerphilly.
1896Pudding-spoon [see pudding fork above]. 1944A. Thirkell Headmistress iv. 73 Giving a final polish to the pudding spoons with a piece of washleather. 1973J. Wainwright Touch of Malice 93 Harris..handled the gear-lever like a pudding⁓spoon.
17..E. Smith Compl. Housew. (1750) 183 Mix it with a broad *puddingstick; not with your hands. 1852Mrs. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin I. xviii. 298 Interrupting her meditations to give..a rap on the head to some of the young operators with the pudding-stick that lay by her side. 1878B. F. Taylor Between Gates 109 You can get an idea of it by fancying a paddle or a pudding⁓stick turning into a fiddle.
c. Special Combs.: † pudding-ale, cheap ale, probably ‘from its being thick like pudding’ (Skeat); pudding-ball Austral. [ad. Aboriginal word], an edible marine fish resembling a mullet, perhaps the sea mullet, Mugil cephalus; pudding basin, a basin in which puddings are made; transf., applied to a round hat, helmet, or hair-style; also attrib.; pudding bree, broo, Sc., the water in which puddings (sense 1) have been boiled; pudding-cake: see quot.; † pudding-cart, an offal or refuse cart (cf. sense 2); pudding chain Naut. (see quot.); pudding class = next; pudding club: see club n. 14 c; pudding-face, a large fat face; hence pudding-faced a.; pudding fender = sense 4 b; † pudding-filler (from sense 2), one who lives to eat, a glutton; pudding-fish, = pudding-wife 2 (Hamilton Dict. Terms 1825); † pudding-gut, the entrail or skin used in making puddings (sense 1); pudding-head, a stupid person; hence pudding-headed a.; pudding-heart, soft-heart, coward; † pudding-house, (a) the stomach or belly (vulgar); (b) an offal house; pudding-meat, the meat stuffing for a pudding (sense 1); † pudding-pack, = pudding-tobacco below; pudding-pipe, the pod of an Indian tree, Cassia fistula, hence called pudding-pipe tree; † pudding-pit, ? a pit into which offal is thrown; pudding-poke, the long-tailed tit, Aegithalos caudatus; pudding-sleeve, a large bulging sleeve drawn in at the wrist or above; also attrib.; hence pudding-sleeved a.; † pudding-tobacco, compressed tobacco, made in rolls resembling a pudding or sausage [cf. F. boudin de tabac]; pudding-turnip, a variety of turnip; pudding way = pudding club above; † pudding-wright, one who makes puddings. Also pudding-bag, -grass, -pie, etc.
1377Langl. P. Pl. B. v. 220 Peny ale and *podyng ale she poured togideres For laboreres and for low folke.
1847J. D. Lang Cooksland iv. 96 The species of fish that are commonest in the Bay [sc. Moreton Bay] are mullet, bream, puddinba (a native word corrupted by the colonists into *pudding-ball)... The puddinba is like a mullet in shape, but larger, and very fat; it is esteemed a great delicacy. 1896Australasian 28 Aug. 407/4 ‘Pudding-ball’ is the name for a fish. 1945Baker Austral. Lang. xii. 214 Popular fish-names peculiar to the Australian include..puddingball, corrupted by the law of Hobson-Jobson from the aboriginal puddinba.
1861Mrs. Beeton Bk. Househ. Managem. xxvi. 611 (caption) *Pudding-basin. 1909Westm. Gaz. 3 June 8/3 A grey straw hat of the inverted pudding-basin type. 1925Fraser & Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words 231 Pudding basin, the British steel shrapnel helmet. (From its shape.) 1951A. Baron Rosie Hogarth i. ii. 19 Each boy's hair close-cropped with a pudding-basin fringe. 1974Country Life 28 Feb. 456/3 A male customer is looking for..shooting and fishing hats, saucy tweed pudding basins and tweed caps. 1977B. Pym Quartet in Autumn i. 1 Now he..had adopted a medieval or pudding-basin style, rather like the American crew-cut of the forties and fifties.
17..‘Get up & bar the Door’ ix. in Herd (1776) II. 160 What ails ye at the *pudding-broo, That boils into the pan? Ibid. x, Will ye kiss my wife before my een, And scald me wi' pudding bree?
1875Sussex Gloss., *Pudding-cake, a composition of flour and water boiled; differing from a hard dick in shape only, being flat instead of round.
1562in Strype Stow's Surv. (1754) II. v. xxi. 411/1 The *Pudding-Cart of the Shambles shall not go afore the Hour of Nine in the Night, or after the Hour of Five in the Morning.
1948R. de Kerchove Internat. Maritime Dict. 561/2 *Pudding chain, short link chain occasionally used for running rigging. It runs well over sheaves and is easy to belay. It is used for jib halyards and sheets in small trading vessels, but has lately been generally replaced by flexible wire.
1969E. Gébler Shall I eat you Now? 88 Girl soon comes..to announce she has a bun in the oven. I'm in the *pudding class.
1890Barrère & Leland Dict. Slang II. 155/1 *Pudding club (popular), a woman in the family way is said to be in the pudding club. 1978L. Davidson Chelsea Murders v. 28 ‘Was she in the pudding club?’..‘Probably. They aren't saying.’
1748Richardson Clarissa (1811) IV. xlv. 297 Let me see what a mixture of grief and surprize may be beat up together in thy *puden-face. 1784J. Barry in Lect. Paint ii. (1848) 94 The hatchet or the pudding face. 1916‘Taffrail’ Pincher Martin vii. 116 Orl right, old puddin'-face. Keep yer 'air on! 1950G. Brenan Face of Spain iv. 84 The Englishman, fresh from the dull hurry of London streets and from their sea of pudding faces.
1847L. Hunt Men, Women, & B. I. ii. 23 Four boys going to school, very *pudding-faced.
1883Man. Seamanship for Boys' Training Ships R. Navy (Admiralty) (1886) 186 *Pudding fenders are used in the Navy for large boats..and sometimes on lower yards, to take the chafe on the inside part of the quarter yard. 1961F. H. Burgess Dict. Sailing 164 Pudding fender, a fat enclosed bundle of old strands, etc., for use over the side of boats and yachts.
1500–20Dunbar Poems xiv. 69 Sic *pudding-fillaris, discending down frome millaris, Within this land was nevir hard nor sene.
1598Florio, Scrizzótto.., a reede that cookes vse to blow the *pudding guts before they fill them.
1851H. Melville Moby Dick III. xxii. 152 *Pudding-heads should never grant premises. 1893‘Mark Twain’ in Century Mag. Dec. 235/2 Perfect jackass—yes, and it ain't going too far to say he's a pudd'nhead. 1952S. Kauffmann Tightrope xiv. 243 Why, you're not doing this at all badly, pudding head. 1978P. G. Winslow Coppergold 153, I didn't tell Joss, no matter what that Yorkshire puddenhead thinks.
1726Arbuthnot Diss. Dumpling 17 O wou'd..this little Attempt of Mine may stir up some *Pudding-headed Antiquary to dig his Way through all the mouldy Records of Antiquity. 1867in Dickens Lett., to Miss Hogarth 16 Dec. (1893) 649 Surely it is time that the pudding-headed Dolby retired into the native gloom from which he has emerged.
1834Sir H. Taylor 2nd Pt. Artevelde iii. i. 70 Go, *pudding-heart! Take thy huge offal and white liver hence.
1596Nashe Saffron Walden P iv b, What a commotion there was in his entrayles or *pudding-house for want of food. 1609Rowlands Knaue of Clubbes 24 His pudding-house at length began to swell. 1620Westward for Smelts (Percy Soc.) 5 The pudding-house at Brooke's wharfe.
1777Brand Pop. Antiq. App. 355 A Kind of *Pudding-Meat, consisting of Blood, Suet, Groats, etc.
a1618Sylvester Tobacco Battered 781 Impose so deep a Taxe On all these Ball, Leafe, Cane, and *Pudding-packs.
1597Gerarde Herbal iii. lxxvii. 1242 Cassia fistula. *Pudding Pipe tree... Cassia fistula..may also be Englished Pudding Pipe, because the cod or pipe is like a pudding. 1760J. Lee Introd. Bot. App. 324 Pudding Pipe-tree, Cassia. 1866Treas. Bot. 233.
1593G. Harvey Pierce's Super. 47 The person, that vnder his hand-writing hath stiled him..the bag-pudding of fooles, & the very *pudding-pittes of the wise, or honest.
a1825Forby Voc. E. Anglia 239 It [wren's-nest] is otherwise, and more descriptively at least, called a *pudding-poke's nest. 1848Zoologist VI. 2186 The P[arus] caudatus is the ‘pudding-poke’.
1708Swift Baucis & Philemon 120 He sees..About each arm a *pudding-sleeve. 1720Hearne Collect. (O.H.S.) VII. 97 The Whiggs and the Enemies of the Universities, who all go in Pudding-sleeve Gowns. 1910‘Member of Aristocracy’ Manners & Rules of Good Society xi. 85 Archbishops, bishops, and clergy should appear in full canonicals, that is black silk full- or *pudding-sleeve gowns, cassock and sash bands. 1939M. B. Picken Lang. Fashion 136/3 Pudding sleeve,..full sleeve held in at wrist, or above. 1960C. W. Cunnington et al. Dict. Eng. Costume 172/1 Pudding sleeve,..a large loose sleeve, especially of a clergy⁓man's gown.
1599B. Jonson Cynthia's Rev. ii. i, He..never..prayes but for a pipe of *pudding tabacco.
1963‘J. Prescot’ Case for Hearing vi. 94 Getting a girl in the *pudding way isn't a crime.
1598R. Bernard tr. Terence's Eunuch ii. ii, Cookes, *pudding-wrights.
Hence (nonce-wds.) ˈpuddingish a., of the nature of a pudding; ˈpuddingize v. trans., to make a pudding of; ˈpuddingless a., without pudding.
1866R. Buchanan in Academy 15 June (1901) 506/1 Right stately sat Arnold..With *puddingish England serenely disgusted.
1726Arbuthnot Diss. Dumpling 20 Physick is only a *Puddingizing or Cookery of Drugs.
1855Househ. Words XII. 168 We went *puddingless that Christmas-day. [Note. ME. poding, mod. pudding, and F. † bodin, boudin, have so many points in common that, but for the difficulties of form, they would at once be identified as the same word. They both appear first in the 13th century, had at first exactly the same sense (still retained in Sc.), and agree to a great extent in their transferred uses. Even the difference of form is not insuperable; p for Fr. or L. b occurs also in purse, L. bursa, F. bourse, and the existence of Eng. words in pud- (see below) might by a species of folk-etymology facilitate the substitution here; final -in might be identified with Eng. -ing; the interchange of -ing and -in is actually seen in the later puddin, pudden. The identity of the words, though highly probable, cannot however be held to be proved, and the matter is rendered more uncertain by the absence of any certain derivation of the Fr. Word. In the same sense, It. has or had boldone (Florio), and L. botulus; the former appears to be closely akin to F. boudin; with the latter connexion is more difficult, though to its stem bot- some would refer boudin and bouder to pout the lips. Leaving the Fr. aside, the origin of the Eng. word has been sought in a stem *pud- to swell, bulge, inferred from rare OE. puduc, ‘struma’, wen, Westphal. dial. puddek lump, pudding, LG. pudde-wurst black-pudding, puddig thick, stumpy (Brem. Wbch.); cf. also Eng. dial. pod, Sc. pud belly, poud boil, ulcer, and podge, pudge; but it is not at all certain that the notion of swelling enters into the original sense. Mod.F. pouding (1754) and poudingue, mod.Du. podding, mod.LG. pudding, pudden, buddin, Ger. pudding, Da. budding, Sw. pudding, are all from the Eng. word in its current sense; the Irish putog and Gael. putag (in this sense) are also from Eng.] ▪ II. pudding, v.|ˈpʊdɪŋ|
Also (dial. and vulgar) pudden.
[f. prec. n.]
1. trans. To supply or treat with pudding or a pudding-like substance.
a1600I. T. Grim, Collier Croydon ii. i, Now I talk of a Pudding,..I am old dog at it. Come Ione, let's away, I'le pudding you. 1858Lewis in Youatt Dog (N.Y.) v. 175 Thieves..are said to have a method of quieting the fiercest watch-dogs by throwing them a narcotic ball, which they call ‘puddening the animal’. [See pudding n. 9.] 1882Freeman in Stephens Life & Lett. (1895) II. 264 So Mrs. Macmillan and her doctor..bathed me and dosed me and puddinged [i.e. poulticed] me behind and before.
2. Naut. To wrap with tow as a protection against chafing. See pudding n. 4.
1711W. Sutherland Shipbuild. Assist. 162 To Pudden the Yards, to nail Pieces of old Rope round them, to preserve them from galling. 1833Marryat P. Simple xiv, He was afraid to pudding an anchor on the fore-castle. 1886R. C. Leslie Sea Painter's Log 142 ‘Puddening the anchors’,..or ‘clapping a service on the cable’.
Hence puddening |ˈpʊd(ə)nɪŋ| vbl. n., Naut. etc.: see quots. and cf. pudding n. 4.
1769Falconer Dict. Marine (1776) s.v. Anchor, The ring is..covered with a number of pieces of short rope,..called the puddening, and used to preserve the cable from being..chafed by the iron. Ibid., Puddening,..a thick wreath, or circle of cordage, tapering from the middle towards the ends, and fastened about the main-mast and fore-mast of a ship, to prevent their yards from falling down, when the ropes by which they are usually suspended are shot away in battle. 1866W. Henderson Folk Lore N. Counties 12 Much importance attaches to the baby's first visit to another house, on which occasion it is expected that he should receive three things—an egg, salt and white bread or cake. Near Leeds this ceremony is called Puddening. |