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▪ I. pudge1 dial. and colloq.|pʌdʒ|
Also Sc. poodge |pødʒ, pʏdʒ|.
[Origin obscure; app. to a certain extent identical with podge. Not known before 19th c. Connexion with Sc. pud belly, and with pud- in pudding has been conjectured; but the phonetic change would need explanation.]
A short thick-set or fat person or animal; anything short and thick.
1808Jamieson, Pudge, any very small house, a hut, Perths. 1880Ibid., Pudge [ed. 1825 Pudget], (1) a term applied to a short, thick set animal or person; also, to a person who feeds well; (2) anything short and stout, or small and confined, as a house, a hut. 1892E. L. Wakeman in Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch 28 July, The old town has always seemed to wish the glamor of immortality on its own account; for its wigged pudges of rulers, its wicked old slave traders. 1905Daily Chron. 8 May 8/5 The tight shoe ages the face appallingly, the tight glove makes a shapeless ‘pudge’ of the hand.
▪ II. pudge2 dial.|pʌdʒ|
[? Connected with OE. pudd furrow, ? ditch (see puddle n.). Cf. Sw. puss puddle, plash.]
A puddle.
1820Clare Rural Life (ed. 3) 31 While countless swarms of dancing gnats Each water pudge surround. 1821― Vill. Minstr. II. 32 He whisk'd o'er the water-pudge flirting and airy. 1847–78Halliwell, Pudge, a ditch or grip.
▪ III. pudge
var. padge, podge v. |