| 单词 | a pudding of a |
| 释义 | > as lemmasa pudding of a (man, woman, etc.) b. colloquial. A stout, thickset, stupid, or inanimate person. Chiefly in phrase a pudding of a (man, woman, etc.).Earliest in attributive use, as pudding boy at Compounds 1a. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > bodily shape or physique > broad shape or physique > [noun] > person having pudding1858 1789 E. Butler Diary 7 Oct. in E. M. Bell Hamwood Papers (1930) ix. 231 A great fat pudding boy brought some. 1858 N. Hawthorne Jrnl. 15 June in French & Ital. Notebks. (1980) v. 318 What could possibly have stirred up this pudding of a woman..to do such a deed! 1903 C. G. D. Roberts Barbara Ladd 219 His wife was a non-significant, abundant, gently acquiescent pudding of a woman. 1980 A. Cornelisen Flight from Torregreca xi. 267 She is a sallow pudding of a child with a broad flat face. 1989 Correspondent Mag. 29 Oct. 53/2 There was no money to save face by hiding with the puddings in an independent girl's [sic] school. 2005 Edmonton (Alberta) Jrnl. (Nexis) 11 Feb. e2 Matthieu is a mild-mannered pudding of a man, a cheerful, pudgy, balding guy with a sweet smile. < as lemmas |
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