puddingn.

Brit.

/ˈpʊdɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈpʊdɪŋ/

Forms: Middle English podding, Middle English poddyng, Middle English poodyng (in a late copy), Middle English punding (transmission error), Middle English 1600s–1700s puding, Middle English–1500s poddynge, Middle English–1500s poding, Middle English–1500s podyng, Middle English–1500s puddyng, Middle English–1500s puddynge, Middle English– pudding, 1500s podynge, 1500s pooddyng, 1500s pooding, 1500s–1600s puddinge, 1500s– pudden (now regional and nonstandard), 1500s– puddin (now regional and nonstandard), 1800s puddeen (Irish English (Wexford)), 1800s– pudd'n (regional and nonstandard); also Scottish pre-1700 powding, pre-1700 puddein, pre-1700 puddine, pre-1700 puddyng, pre-1700 pudyn, pre-1700 1700s puden, pre-1700 1700s puding, 1700s pudin. N.E.D. (1909) also records a form puddingh.

Origin: Probably a borrowing from French. Etymons: French bodeyn, bodin.

Etymology: Probably < Anglo-Norman bodeyn, bodin sausage (second half of the 13th cent. or earlier), (in plural) intestines, entrails (1396 in plural bodeyns , with reference to animal intestines; compare Old French, Middle French, French boudin sausage, blood sausage (c1270), (now regional: chiefly Normandy) intestines, entrails, (now slang) belly, stomach (of a person) (1568 or earlier); further etymology uncertain and disputed: see note), with alteration of the ending after nouns in -ing (compare -ing suffix³). Earlier currency of the English word is apparently implied by post-classical Latin pudingum (c1245 apparently in sense ‘sausage’ in a British source; probably < English).The initial p- of the English word is apparently not paralleled in French (although see below for two possible Anglo-Norman counterexamples), and would show an irregular phonological development. It has been suggested that the voiceless initial may result from the influence of other words with which the word may have been associated semantically in English (see below), although it should be noted that most of these are first attested much later and the semantic connection is not close. For a possible parallel compare later purrell n., and perhaps also earlier purse n. It is unclear whether examples such as the following are to be regarded as showing the Middle English word or (otherwise unattested) variants with initial p- of the Anglo-Norman word (or perhaps borrowings from Middle English into Anglo-Norman):c1300 Glosses to De Nominibus Utensilium of Alexander Neckam (Linc. 132) in T. Hunt Teaching & Learning Lat. in 13th-cent. Eng. (1991) II. 71 Tu(n)cetis : de puudincques.c1300 Glosses to Comm. to Garland's Dict. (Linc. 132) in T. Hunt Teaching & Learning Lat. in 13th-cent. Eng. (1991) II. 150 Truceta vel tunseta : gallice puddins. As for the ulterior etymology of the French word, Französisches etymol. Wörterbuch at *bod- suggests that French boudin is formed < a Romance base *bod- denoting bulging, swollen objects, which is of imitative origin, and cites a number of apparent (largely regional) Romance cognates in similar senses; however, this view is not generally accepted. In spite of their semantic and (at least superficial) formal similarity, it is unclear whether Italian (now archaic or regional: northern) boldone blood sausage (a1556; of uncertain origin) and classical Latin botulus sausage (see botulism n.) are etymologically related. An alternative etymology derives the word < a Germanic base (of imitative origin) taken to be shown also by Old English puduc wen, swelling (rare) + -ing suffix³. (Old English puduc would thus be formed from the same base + -ock suffix). It has frequently been suggested that the same Germanic base is also seen in pod n.¹, pud n.², podge n., pudge n.², English regional (southern) poud boil, ulcer (recorded from the 18th–early 20th cent. by Eng. Dial. Dict. at that entry), as well as in other Germanic words, e.g. Dutch regional poddik thick soft mass, kind of pudding, shortish child, short fat person, Middle Low German puddich (rare) fat, corpulent (German regional (Low German: Bremen) puddig thick, stumpy), German regional (Low German: Bremen) pudde- (in pudde-wurst large sausage, especially black pudding, also (figurative) fat person), (Westphalia) puddek dumpling, sausage, (Mecklenburg) pūden boil, ulcer, swollen body part, (Berlin, Brandenburg) puddel small person, small fat child, especially a child just beginning to walk, (Pomerania) puddik swollen gland. However, in spite of their phonological and semantic similarities, it is unclear whether any of these words are etymologically related, and, with the exception of puduc , they are all first attested much later (in a number of cases very much later). With sense 2 compare Middle French, French boudin stomach, belly (1568 or earlier, with reference to humans; now slang). With sense 8 compare French boudin fuse used to cause an explosion in a mine (1680 in this sense), saucisson kind of fuse (1623; lit. ‘sausage’). In pudding-ale n. at Compounds 2, probably so called on account of the ale being thick like pudding; compare penny ale n. at penny n. Compounds 2. The English word was borrowed into many other European languages. Compare French pudding (1688; also pouding (1754)), Spanish budín (19th cent.; also budin , pudín , pudin ), Portuguese pudim (1799), Italian pudding (1823; compare earlier puddinga puddingstone: see puddingstone n.), Dutch pudding (1661 as †podding ), German Pudding (17th cent.), Danish budding (early 18th cent.; also (rare) pudding (c1800)), Swedish budding (1682; now regional), buding (c1710; now regional), pudding (c1710), and also Irish putóg intestine, pudding, Scottish Gaelic putag pudding. The word is apparently attested earlier as a byname and surname: Agelword Pudding (c1100), Aluredus Pudding (1176), Willelmus Pudding (1202), Stephano Pudding (c1225), etc. However, it is possible that at least some of these instances show a patronymic formed from the Old English byname Puda . See further G. Tengvik Old English Bynames (1938) 145. (On surnames which have been suggested as showing very much earlier currency of puddy adj. see discussion at that entry.)

I. A stuffed entrail or sausage, and related senses.

a. The stomach or one of the entrails (in early use sometimes the neck) of a pig, sheep, or other animal, stuffed with a mixture of minced meat, suet, oatmeal, seasoning, etc., and boiled; a kind of sausage. Also as a mass noun: a quantity of this. Now Scottish, English regional, and Irish English (northern).For specific varieties of pudding, as black pudding, blood pudding, hog's pudding, white pudding, etc., see the first element.In quot. c1500 with implication of extended use at 9a.

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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > sausage > [noun]

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1287 in W. Hudson Leet Jurisdict. Norwich (1892) 8 (MED) Omnes illi de Sproxton vendunt hillas et pudinges, emunt scienter porcos superseminatos et vendunt in foro Norwyci predictas hillas et pundinges non necessarias corporibus hominum.

?c1335 (a1300) Land of Cokaygne 59 in W. Heuser Kildare-Gedichte (1904) 146 Þe pinnes beþ fat podinges, Rich met to princez and kinges.

c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. xiii. 63 (MED) He eet many sondry metes, mortrewes and puddynges.

c1450 in T. Austin Two 15th-cent. Cookery-bks. (1888) 42 Puddyng of purpaysse..putte þis in þe Gutte of þe purpays.

a1475 Liber Cocorum (Sloane) (1862) 48 (MED) Take þo neck, avoyde þe bone, And make a puddyng þer of..þen Sew fast þo bylle grete ende.

a1500 in R. L. Greene Early Eng. Carols (1935) 286 (MED) Bryng vs in no podynges, for therin is al Godes good.

c1500 in R. H. Robbins Secular Lyrics 14th & 15th Cent. (1952) 194–5 (MED) Podynges at nyght and podynges at none; Were nat for podynges the world were clene done..I will haue a podyng that will stand by hymself..I will haue a podyng that grows out of a man.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 265 Sausedge a podyng.

1584 T. Cogan Hauen of Health cxlix. 128 Of the inwarde of beastes are made Puddinges, which are best of an hogge.

1615 G. Markham Eng. House-wife (1660) 178 Pudding which is called the Haggas or Haggus, of whose goodnesse it is vain to boast.

1617 F. Moryson Itinerary iii. ii. iii. 81 In lower Germany they supply the meale with bacon and great dried puddings, which puddings are sauory and so pleasant.

1659 J. Howell Let. Advice towards Mariage in Proverbs sig. ¶2^v, in Lex. Tetraglotton (1660) There must be Suet as well as Oatmeal to make a Pudding.

1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 269. ¶8 He had sent a string of Hogs-puddings..to every poor Family in the Parish.

1776 D. Herd Anc. & Mod. Sc. Songs (ed. 2) II. 160 Our goodwife got puddings to make, And she's boiled them in the pan.

a1801 R. Gall Poems & Songs (1819) 66 The puddings, bairns, are just in season—They're newly made.

1819 Sporting Mag. 5 32 In Suffolk, black puddings made in guts are called links.

1869 Overland Monthly Aug. 129/2 In most of the Atlantic Southern States there is a dish to be found about hog-slaughtering time, named ‘puddings’. It consists of swine's flesh, bread, sage, and other matters of nourishment and seasoning, chopped fine, and then squirted out into links from the end of a sausage-gun.

1899 R. M. Gilchrist Nicholas 196 Th' puddin's weere talked o' i' Milton for months.

1953 M. Traynor Eng. Dial. Donegal p. 221/1 Puddings,..the stuffed entrails of a pig.

2006 Daily Mail (Nexis) 25 Jan. 31 An average haggis includes about 19g of carbohydrates and around 10g of protein per 100g of pudding.

b. A stuffing made of a mixture of minced meat, suet, oatmeal, seasoning, etc., and roasted within the body of the animal. Also figurative. Now historical.

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the world > food and drink > food > additive > stuffing > [noun] > other stuffings

pudding1598

salpicon1723

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rice dressing1886

1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 ii. v. 458 That rosted Manningtre Oxe with the pudding in his belly.

a1637 B. Jonson Masque of Gypsies 85 in tr. Horace Art of Poetry (1640) The very next dish was a Major of a Towne, With a pudding of maintenance thrust in his belly.

1771 E. Long Trial of Carter's Dog in W. Hone Every-day Bk. (1827) II. 203 His worship had him [sc. a hare] roasted, with a pudding in his belly.

1820 W. Irving Sketch Bk. vi. 71 He pictured to himself every roasting pig running about with a pudding in its belly, and an apple in its mouth.

1973 C. A. Wilson Food & Drink in Brit. iii. 110 A roasted hare was given a pudding in his belly, a forcemeat of grated bread, suet, and herbs or spices.

2. In plural. The bowels, entrails, or guts of a person or animal. archaic or regional in later use.

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the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > digestive organs > intestines > [noun]

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a1525 (?1444) Coventry Leet Bk. (1907) I. 208 Quod nullus deinceps lavet lez poodynges ad le condites sub consimili pena.

1559 D. Lindsay Test. Papyngo 1157 in Wks. (1931) I. 90 Tak thare, said he, the puddyngis, for thy parte.

?1573 L. Lloyd Pilgrimage of Princes f. 160 The Foxe..did bite and scratche the yongman so sore, that his puddynges gusshed out of his side.

1612 P. Lowe Art Chyrurg. (ed. 2) iv. xii. 107 They [sc. woundy tumours] are sometimes in the..capacity betwixt the puddings, and periton.

1681 S. Colvil Mock Poem i. 4 When Rhime bursts out from breast inrag'd, Like turds from puddings overcharg'd.

1796 S. Pegge Anonymiana (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.

1824 J. Mactaggart Sc. Gallovidian Encycl. 400 His glory was to rive and kill; Pu' puddings out, and warm blude spill.

1847 J. S. Le Fanu T. O'Brien 255 Dar to touch me,—and I'll let the light into your puddens.

1866 J. E. Brogden Provinc. Words Lincs. (at cited word) He slit open the poor fellow's belly and let out the puddings.

1915 in A. W. Johnston & A. Johnston Old-lore Misc. VIII. i. 44 Sheu gaed an' coopid da puddens i da waal an' gaed dem a blot.

1955 Recorded Interview (Brit. Libr. Sound Archive) (Survey Eng. Dial.: C908) (MS transcript) Track 54 [Notts.] Recordist. What about those things you make the sausage skins out of? Speaker. Puddings.

1977 ‘E. Crispin’ Glimpses of Moon xii. 244 ‘Haw-haw,’ chortled the Rector..clutching with both hands at his stomach as if it contained a great rent from which, if unstemmed, his puddings would come bursting out.

1991 E. Yorks. Village Bk. 204 In 1664 Thomas Burton was fined the sum of one shilling for letting his wife wash puddings in the town beck.

†3. In extended use: some kind of artificial light or firework. (See also senses at branch III.) Obsolete.

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the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > [noun] > types of

pudding1527

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ambient lighting1947

1527 in T. Sharp Diss. Pageants Coventry (1825) 185 Payd to hym þat bayre þe podyngs for bothe nyghts..vj d.

1529 in R. W. Ingram Rec. Early Eng. Drama: Coventry (1982) 129 Item paid for beryng the Cressettes and the podyng vj d.

1549 in T. Sharp Diss. Pageants Coventry (1825) 185 Payd to þ^e boye þat bere þ^e podyngs j d.

II. A sweet or savoury dish made with flour, milk, etc.

a. A boiled, steamed, or baked dish made with various sweet or (sometimes) savoury ingredients, added to a mixture typically including milk, eggs, and flour (or other fatty or starchy ingredients such as suet, rice, semolina, etc.), or enclosed within a crust made from such a mixture.The earliest use (connecting this sense with sense 1) apparently implied the boiling of the mixture in a bag or cloth (a pudding-bag or pudding-cloth), as is still sometimes 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 much more varied. In modern use pudding refers almost exclusively to sweet dishes, with the exception of certain named savoury dishes such as those at sense 4b.

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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > puddings > [noun] > a pudding

pudding?1543

duff1828

?1543 T. Phaer tr. J. Goeurot Regiment of Lyfe xii. f. xlvii Take oyle of roses, cromes of breade, yolkes of egges, and cowes mylke, with a lytle saffron, seeth them togyther a lytle as ye woulde make a puddynge [Fr. les dictes choses cuytes ensemble comme bouillie].

1589 J. Rider Bibliotheca Scholastica 1162 A pudding made of milke, cheese, and herbs, moretum, herbosum moretum.

1654 E. Johnson Hist. New-Eng. 109 [The Indians] strive for variety after the English manner, boyling Puddings made of beaten corne [etc.].

1692 T. Tryon Good House-wife (ed. 2) 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.

1733 A. Pope Of Use of Riches 17 One solid dish his week-day meal affords, An added pudding solemniz'd the Lord's.

1734 Ld. Castledurrow Let. 11 Jan. in J. Swift Lett. (1766) III. 265 Your puddings..are the best sweet thing I ever eat.

1747 H. Glasse Art of 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.

1789 W. Maclay Deb. Senate 129 The desert was first apple pies, puddings, etc.; then iced creams, jellies, etc.

1818 W. Kitchiner Cook's Oracle (ed. 2) 577 Puddings are best when mixed over night.

1851 Rep. Juries Great Exhib. (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.

1954 Good Housek. Cookery Bk. (rev. ed.) ii. 284 In this section will be found the recipes for..some miscellaneous baked puddings.

2003 Bristol Evening Post (Nexis) 16 Dec. 34 After my mother had made the puddings they were cooked in the old boiler in the kitchen, with each basin tied up with sheeting.

b. With defining word identifying the essential ingredient (see apple, bread, milk, plum pudding, etc.). Also with other modifying word (see Christmas, hasty, pan pudding, etc.); also Sussex pudding, Yorkshire pudding.The more common of these are treated under the first element, or appear as main entries.

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1582 S. Batman Vppon Bartholome, De Proprietatibus Rerum 616 Many wayes serueth the use of flowre, for Wafers,..and the Kentish Pudding.

1631 B. Jonson Divell is Asse ii. i, in Wks. II. 115 No youths, disguis'd Like country-wiues, with creame, and marrow-puddings.

1711 W. King et al. Vindic. Sacheverell 75 This is just as proper as I had a good Plumb Pudden to day with a Mixture of Flower and Raisins.

1723 J. Nott Cook's & Confectioner's Dict. sig. K8 (heading) To make a Cowslip Pudding.

1726 Learned 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.

1747 H. Glasse Art of Cookery vii. 69 Stake-Pudding... Let your Stakes be..Beef or Mutton.

1827 M. M. Sherwood Lady of Manor V. xxiv. 222 Their having a tansey pudding at Easter.

1862 Mrs. H. Wood Mrs. Halliburton's Troubles II. iii. 28 A delicious lemon pudding.

1883 Harper's Mag. Apr. 654/1 A Sussex pudding, or great boiled dumpling filled with meat instead of fruit.

1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xiii. [Nausicaa] 337 Her griddlecakes..and queen Ann's pudding of delightful creaminess had won golden opinions.

1958 Listener 12 June 995/1 Rhubarb crumble pudding.

1983 Hackensack (New Jersey) Rec. 26 Jan. I have always associated the word ‘pudding’ with desserts of a rather homely but satisfying nature: bread-and-butter pudding, rice pudding, Indian pudding.

2003 Philadelphia Inquirer (Nexis) 24 Apr. g2 Bread pudding is a dish of stale bread baked in custard, while tapioca and rice puddings have a milky base but don't resemble smooth nursery puddings.

c. As a mass noun: this as a substance or foodstuff.

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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > puddings > [noun]

pudding1622

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1622 ‘Mourt’ Relation 84 We gave him strong water, and bisket, and butter, and cheese, & pudding.

1670 J. Eachard Grounds Contempt of Clergy 87 Mr. Clark's Lives of Famous Men,..such as Mr. Carter of Norwich, that uses to eat such abundance of Pudden.

1685 S. Wesley Maggots 41 For that can best (as you may quickly prove) Settle the Wit, as Pudding settles Love.

1716 A. Pope Corr. Nov. (1956) I. 374 If you can dine upon a piece of beef, together with a slice of pudding.

1718 M. Prior Poems Several Occasions (new ed.) 195 Mind neither Good nor Bad, nor Right nor Wrong; But Eat your Pudding, Slave; and Hold your Tongue.

1767 T. Bridges Homer Travestie (ed. 2) I. ii. 54 He..with so grum an accent spoke, Those people that the circle stood in, Fancy'd his mouth was full of pudding.

1858 G. H. Lewes Sea-side Stud. iv. i. 271 We used to ‘toss’ the pieman for epicurean slices of pudding.

1876 G. Meredith Beauchamp's Career I. xviii. 279 Our English pudding, a fortuitous concourse of all the sweets in the grocer's shop.

1935 Times 5 Apr. 10/3 Brouard wanted her to make some pudding and a cake for Christmas, but would not allow her the necessaries.

1992 Equinox Aug. 104/3 You're eating pudding for dessert, and he brings you a fork.

d. North American. A custard-like dessert typically made of milk, sugar, and a thickening agent, and served cold. Frequently with modifying word specifying the flavour, as in chocolate pudding, vanilla pudding, butterscotch pudding, etc.Pudding is sometimes also used as a filling for pies or pastries.

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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > milk and cream dishes > [noun]

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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > egg dishes > [noun] > custard

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1896 F. M. Farmer Boston Cooking-School Cook Bk. xxv. 345 Pineapple pudding. 2¾ cups scalded milk... ⅓ cup corn-starch. ¼ cup sugar...½ can grated pineapple.

1953 N.Y. Herald Tribune 7 June (This Week section) 20/3 Daddy, that's just what we're having. Sloppy Joe hamburgers, French fries with catsup... For dessert there's chocolate pudding.

1963 Ladies' Home Jrnl. July 92/1 (advt.) Just add to milk, beat a minute, and there you are. They'll never believe it's instant pudding!

2013 R. Rowell Eleanor & Park xviii. 92 Cal was eating a Snack Pack butterscotch pudding.

e. Chiefly British. Any sweet dish served as a dessert. Also: the sweet course following the main course (or sometimes the cheese course) of a meal; dessert. Cf. pudding course n. at Compounds 1b.Originally only as a count noun; now also as a mass noun.

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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > [noun] > dish > sweet dish

dessert1789

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the world > food and drink > food > meal > course > [noun] > course after main

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1934 Times 27 Nov. 10/5 These dinners..cost 6 1/2 d. to 7 d. each, and consist of fish and meat, two vegetables, and a pudding.

1940 S. Spender Backward Son 12 At lunch there was fruit salad, his favourite pudding.

1966 H. Davies New London Spy (1967) 31 The Englishman has the absurd notion that it is not manly to eat puddings, or sweets as they are called slightly lower down the social scale.

1974 E. Ayrton Cookery of Eng. x. 430 Our grandfathers, even our fathers, expected a ‘pudding’ at least once a day, sometimes twice.

1979 J. Cooper Class xii. 202 Everything from lemon water ice to jam roly-poly pudding, Caroline would call ‘pudding’. She would never say ‘sweet’ or ‘dessert’.

2006 Daily Mail (Nexis) 2 May 38 The baked apples we are having for pudding are tasty and filling.

III. In extended use and figurative. (In early use chiefly from senses at branch I.; later usually from, or understood as, branch II.)

†5. figurative. Material reward or advantage, esp. in cake and pudding n. at cake n. and adj. Phrases 4d. Also in alliterative contrast with (empty or non-material) praise. Obsolete.

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the world > action or operation > behaviour > reciprocal treatment or return of an action > reward or a reward > [noun] > material reward

pudding1556

1556 J. Old Confession of Catholike Olde Belefe sig. D7 Yet for cake & pudding wolde turne again (like wethercockes) which waye so euer the wynde bloweth, as a man will haue them.

1681 S. Colvil Mock Poem i. 93 He turn'd his coat for cake and pudding.

1728 A. Pope Dunciad i. 42 Where in nice balance, truth with gold she weighs, And solid pudding against empty praise.

1750 B. Franklin Poor Richard's Almanack 1257 A man may receive more solid Satisfaction from Pudding, while he is living, than from Praise, after he is dead.

1821 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto III lxxix. 42 He turn'd, preferring pudding to no praise.

1843 T. Carlyle Past & Present i. v. 41 Your own degree of worth and talent, is it..measurable by the..conquest of praise or pudding, it has brought you to?

1910 Times 12 Apr. 11/6 He is not sordid. It is praise he wants more than pudding; ‘the roaring and the wreaths’ rather than the cheque which they imply.

6. Nautical. Any rope padding or binding which prevents chafing or impact damage; spec. †(a) a wreath of plaited cordage placed round the mast and yards of a ship as a support; = dolphin n. 6b(c) (obsolete); (b) a pad to prevent damage to the gunwale or sides of a boat, a fender; (c) the binding on rings, etc., to prevent the chafing of cables or hawsers.

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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > anchoring equipment > [noun] > binding to save cable from chafe

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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > ropes or chains other than rigging or cable > [noun] > protection against chafing of or by rope

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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > other equipment of vessel > [noun] > fender

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sausage1968

a1625 H. Mainwaring Nomenclator Navalis (Harl. 2301) f. 59^v Puddings, are Roapes nailde rounde to the Yarde-armes..close to the ende..to saue the Robbins from galling a sunder vpon y^e 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.

1707 E. Ward Wooden World Dissected 80 Shew me the Gentleman, crys he, that can knot or splice, or make a Pudding as it should be?

1886 R. 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.

1918 L. E. Ruggles Navy Explained 114 The pudding is that rope effect on the bow of a tug, sailing or motor launch. It is used as a bumper to protect the boats going alongside of docks and ships.

1985 Washington Post (Nexis) 7 June 57 Fathoms and fathoms of first-grade manila hawser..much of which has been woven into a handsome ‘bow pudding’ or fender.

†7. A fool or clown; = jack pudding n. Obsolete. rare.

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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > performance of jester or comedian > [noun] > jester or comedian

jugglerc1175

foolc1300

jangler1303

fool sagec1330

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jocular?a1475

joculatora1500

jester?1518

idiot1526

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sporter1531

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vice1552

antic1564

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zany1596

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fiddle1600

mimic1601

ape-carrier1615

mime1616

mime-man1631

merry man1648

tomfool1650

pickle-herring1656

badine1670

puddingc1675

merry-andrew1677

mimical1688

Tom Tram1688

Monaghan1689

pickled herring1711

ethologist1727

court-foola1797

Tom1817

mimer1819

fun-maker1835

funny man1839

mimester1846

comic1857

comedian1860

jokesman1882

comique1886

Joey1896

tummler1938

alternative comedian1981

Andrew-

c1675 Duke of Buckingham Satire Follies Age in Wks. (1752) 111 And play the pudding in a May-day farce.

a1680 S. Butler Genuine Remains (1759) I. 163 No Pudding shall be suffer'd to be witty, Unless it be in order to raise Pity.

†8. Ordnance. A kind of fuse for exploding a mine. Obsolete. rare.

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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > explosive device > [noun] > land-mine > fuse for mine

pudding1691

saucisse1702

sausage1704

saucisson1827

powder hose1832

1691 Treaty betw. Eng. & Denmark in N. Magens Ess. Insurances (1755) II. 634 Under Contraband Goods are understood..Cannons, Muskets,..Granadoes, Puddings, Torches, Carriages for Ordnance.

a. coarse slang. The penis. Now only in to pull one's pudding and variants: see pull v. Phrases 13.

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the world > life > the body > sex organs > male sex organs > [noun] > penis

weapona1000

tarsec1000

pintleOE

cock?c1335

pillicock?c1335

yard1379

arrowa1382

looma1400

vergea1400

instrumentc1405

fidcocka1475

privya1500

virile member (or yard)?1541

prickc1555

tool1563

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penis1578

codpiece1584

needle1592

bauble1593

dildo1597

nag1598

virility1598

ferret1599

rubigo?a1600

Jack1604

mentula1605

virge1608

prependent1610

flute1611

other thing1628

engine1634

manhood1640

cod1650

quillity1653

rammer1653

runnion1655

pego1663

sex1664

propagator1670

membrum virile1672

nervea1680

whore-pipe1684

Roger1689

pudding1693

handle?1731

machine1749

shaft1772

jock1790

poker1811

dickyc1815

Johnny?1833

organ1833

intromittent apparatus1836

root1846

Johnson1863

Peter1870

John Henry1874

dickc1890

dingusc1890

John Thomasc1890

old fellowc1890

Aaron's rod1891

dingle-dangle1893

middle leg1896

mole1896

pisser1896

micky1898

baby-maker1902

old man1902

pecker1902

pizzle1902

willy1905

ding-dong1906

mickey1909

pencil1916

dingbatc1920

plonkerc1920

Johna1922

whangera1922

knob1922

tube1922

ding1926

pee-pee1927

prong1927

pud1927

hose1928

whang1928

dong1930

putz1934

porkc1935

wiener1935

weenie1939

length1949

tadger1949

winkle1951

dinger1953

winky1954

dork1961

virilia1962

rig1964

wee-wee1964

Percy1965

meat tool1966

chopper1967

schlong1967

swipe1967

chode1968

trouser snake1968

ding-a-ling1969

dipstick1970

tonk1970

noonies1972

salami1977

monkey1978

langer1983

wanker1987

1693 T. Urquhart & P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 3rd Bk. Wks. xviii. 148 It is my inter~crural Pudding [Fr. c'est le baston à un bout, qui me pend entre les iambes].

1719 in T. 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.

1972 R. A. Wilson Playboy's Bk. Forbidden Words 240 Pud, the penis; perhaps from pudding in pull the pudding.

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.

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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.

10. Anything of the consistency of a pudding.

†a. A precipitate of solid matter that settles out of a solution; spec. (a) Distilling a coagulation of malt; (b) Spinning an oily mixture filtered from a solution used to wash wool. Obsolete.

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1731 P. Shaw Three Ess. Artific. Philos. 61 Without the..danger of making what, in the Language of Distillers, is termed a Pudding.

1757 A. Cooper Compl. Distiller i. i. 5 Danger of coagulating the Malt, or what Distillers call, making a Pudding.

1884 W. S. B. McLaren Spinning Woollen & Worsted (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.

b. colloquial. Anything of a soft or spongy consistency, esp. wet or boggy ground.

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1902 C. J. Cornish Naturalist on Thames 92 The soaking rains have made a pudding, even of the pasture.

1956 Times 31 July 4/1 The gale, too, had helped, and for England it was better to bowl on to a pudding than not to bowl at all.

1977 Times 7 Feb. 7/4 On a pudding of a pitch Wolves were so superior and had so much extra speed they seemed destined for a comfortable victory.

1995 P. Roth Sabbath's Theater 451 The cruiser had driven off, leaving Sabbath ankle-deep in the pudding of the springtime mud.

†11. Criminals' slang. Poisoned or drugged food (esp. liver) fed to a dog to disable or kill it. Cf. quot. 1858 at pudding v. 1. Obsolete.

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the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > burglary > [noun] > instruments used by burglars > to kill or drug dogs

pudding1827

1827 Times 18 Oct. 2/3 The dog did not recover the effects of the dose, which is termed ‘a pudding’, until two or three days afterwards.

1887 J. W. Horsley Jottings from 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.

1891 Daily 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’.

12. U.S. slang. Something easy to accomplish; a ‘cinch’. Now rare.

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the world > action or operation > easiness > [noun] > that which is easy

ball play?c1225

child's gamec1380

boys' play1538

walkover1861

picnic1870

pudding1884

cakewalk1886

pie1886

cinch1888

snipa1890

pushover1891

pinch1897

sitter1898

pipe1902

five-finger exercise1903

duck soup1912

pud1917

breeze1928

kid stuff1929

soda1930

piece of cake1936

doddle1937

snack1941

stroll1942

piece of piss1949

waltz1968

1884 C. F. Lummis Let. 20 Sept. in Lett. from Southwest (1989) 10 Beyond Tunnelton there are several hundred acres of watermelon patches, and I had what the kids denominate ‘a pudding’.

1887 G. W. Walling Recoll. N.Y. Chief of Police xix. 262 In thieves' slang it was a ‘pudding’;..the vault, although apparently impregnable, was easy to enter, [etc.].

1889 C. R. Sweet Below Zero ii. 41 Aint this a puddin. I guess I'll go into the kitchen and make a mash on the cook.

1915 Elyria (Ohio) Evening Telegram 10 Feb. (City ed.) 4/2 It's a cinch. Pooh! Nothing to it. It's a pudding job, a sinecure, a snap.

1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §255/1 Something easy,..pudding.

1974 Guidelines to Volunteer Services (N.Y. State Dept. Correctional Services) 42 Puddin, light action, easy.

†13. slang. A pudding-shaped bomb. Cf. plum pudding n. 5. Obsolete. rare.

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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > ammunition for firearms > [noun] > bullet or shell > shell > other types of shell

carcass1684

light ball1729

anchor ball1779

shrapnel1810

hollow shot1862

segment-shell1862

blind-shell1864

ring-shot1868

star shell1876

ring-shell1879

pipsqueak1900

Black Maria1914

coal box1914

crump1914

Jack Johnson1914

Archie1915

Little Willie1915

whizz-bang1915

woolly bear1915

fizzbang1916

five-ninea1918

ashcan1918

cream puff1918

sea-bag1918

pudding1919

G.I. can1929

flechette1961

1919 Athenæum 25 July 664/1 Pudding, i.e. our 60 lb. bomb.

14. slang. An unborn baby, a fetus. to have a pudding in the oven (and variants): to be pregnant. Cf. bun n.² a.

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the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > embryo or fetus > [noun]

childOE

birtha1325

fruit of the loinsa1340

conceptiona1398

fetusa1398

embryona1400

feture1540

embryo1576

womb-infant1611

Hans-in-kelder1640

geniture1672

shapeling1674

pudding1937

a bun in the oven1951

preborn1980

1937 E. Partridge Dict. Slang 665/1 With a bellyful of marrow-pudding,..pregnant.

1965 J. 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.

Phrases

P1. British colloquial. not worth a pudding: of little or no worth. Obsolete.

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1546 G. Joye Refut. Byshop Winchesters Derke Declar. f. xliiii^v And as for your vayne replicacion of no graunt,..it is not worth a podyng.

1577 H. Rhodes Bk. Nurture (new ed.) sig. D.iij But in the ende his peeuish pryde, makes all not worth a pudding.

1602 N. Breton Wonders Worth Hearing sig. D2^v These youths of the parish, that are so spruse in their apparell, haue little money in their purses, and their verses and their tales, are not worth a pudding for our trade.

1746 J. Swift Misc. XI. 244 Here's Half-pence in plenty, For one you'll have twenty, Tho' Thousands are not worth a Pudden.

P2. In proverbial phrase the proof of the pudding is in the eating and variants: the efficacy, quality, etc., of something can only be shown by putting it to its intended use. Hence elliptically, as the proof of the pudding: that which puts something to the test or (in later use) proves a fact or statement.Originally from proof n. 7a ‘test’, but now sometimes understood as proof n. 1a ‘evidence’.

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1605 W. Camden Remaines xvii. 319 All the proof of a pudding is in the eating.

1682 N. O. tr. N. Boileau-Despréaux Lutrin iii. Argt. 23 The proof of th' Pudding's seen i' th' eating.

1727 A. Hamilton New Acct. E. Indies I. p. xxix I leave them to my Reader, with the old Proverb to accompany them, that the Proof of the Pudding is in eating it.

1790 W. Windham 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’.

1802 S. T. Coleridge Coll. Lett. (1956) II. 780 I am certainly exceedingly improved in health, spirits, & activity—& as the Proof of the Pudding is in the eating, I hope, to bring some proofs of it with me.

1876 H. James Roderick Hudson xiii. 457 I see no need of expressing it. The proof of the pudding is in the eating! The case is simply this.

1945 C. E. Balleisen Princ. Firearms xi. 123 The proof of a pudding is in the eating, and likewise the proof of an automatic weapon is its ability to repeatedly perform its cycle.

1990 Parenting Feb. 33/2 (advt.) The proof of the pudding is that some of our students break into print even before they finish the course.

2004 New Yorker 16 Feb. 106/1 And the proof of the pudding is a very simple statement that the President keeps repeating: ‘It's better to kill them there than to have them kill us here.’

Compounds

C1.

a. General attributive, with sense ‘resembling or reminiscent of a pudding, shaped like a pudding’, as pudding boy, pudding leg, pudding shape, etc. (see also pudding face n. at Compounds 2).

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the world > life > the body > bodily shape or physique > broad shape or physique > [adjective]

stalworthc1175

thicka1250

stubblea1300

quarryc1300

stalworthyc1300

stoura1350

sturdyc1386

buirdlya1400

squarec1430

couragec1440

craskc1440

substantialc1460

ample1485

stalwart1508

puddinga1540

full-bodied1588

robust1666

two-handed1687

swankinga1704

strapping1707

broad-set1708

thick-set1724

throddy?1748

thick-bodied1752

broad-built1771

junky1825

swankie1838

stodgy1854

wide-bodied1854

beefish1882

hunky1911

buff1982

buffed1986

a1540 Alex. (Taym.) 10373 Fatt pudding leggis vnlufely made.

1789Pudding boy [see sense 9b].

1849 G. Lippard Quaker City (1995) iv. iv. 427 Show him those legs,..apart from the pudding body, and..he would know them on first sight.

1993 R. Warren Stained Glass 55 Fat pudding turds on the grass.

2004 Sunday Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 22 Aug. 16 We sweated up the Tarmac road to Coiregrogain,..with the great pudding shape of Ben Vane filling the skyline in front of us.

b. With sense ‘of or relating to a pudding or puddings’.

pudding course n.

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1871 ‘L. Carroll’ Through Looking-glass viii. 173 I suppose you wouldn't have two pudding-courses in one dinner?

1948 ‘J. Tey’ Franchise Affair iv. 40 The gentle monologue went on, all through the pudding course.

2005 Evening Standard (Nexis) 23 Nov. 53 The discussion remained audible throughout, and reached a logical climax just as the pudding course was being served.

pudding-eating n. and adj.

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1703 E. Ward London-Spy Compleat xiii. 307 One of those brawny Beeff-and-Pudding-Eating-Janizaries demanded..whither we were going?]

1726 Learned Diss. Dumpling 6 In the Esteem of this Pudding-eating Monarch.

1830 T. Carlyle in C. E. Norton Two Note-bks. Thomas Carlyle (1898) 172 Alas poor England, stupid, purblind, pudding-eating England!

1887 Decatur (Illinois) Daily Republican 12 Jan. 4/6 Pudding eating contests for heavy stakes are the attraction in Seattle just now.

1968 Iowa City Press-Citizen 8 May a6 Housing units will compete for points in obstacle courses, a pudding-eating contest, women's greased-pig chase and other activities.

1991 T. Healy It might have been Jerusalem 19 He joined Phillis in the pudding eating.

pudding maker n.

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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > cooking > cook > [noun] > pudding-maker

pudding makera1425

pudding-wife1520–40

pudding-wright1598

a1425 Medulla Gram. (Stonyhurst) f. 67^v Tucetarius, a poddynge maker.

1540 J. Palsgrave tr. G. Gnapheus Comedye of Acolastus sig. L iij The pulters, cokes, puddyng makers.

1726 Learned Diss. Dumpling 5 This John Barnes, or Jack-Pudding,..his Fame had reached France, whose King would have given the World to have had our Jack for his Pudding-Maker.

1891 Times 9 Oct. 5/5 Now, that is, in my opinion, a poor sort of pudding-maker; and so we will keep to our own porridge.

2005 Daily Post (Liverpool) (Nexis) 8 Oct. 10 Despite the British reputation as kings and queens of pudding makers, we have forgotten many of the skills that put us on our throne.

† pudding manufactory n. Obsolete

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1874 L. Carr Judith Gwynne I. iv. 116 If not in the way of your pudding manufactory.

1898 Denton (Maryland) Jrnl. 17 Dec. 3/1 The pudding manufactory in this place, owned by Mrs K. N. Hardcastle, has been rushed with holiday orders for some time.

c. With sense ‘used in the preparation, cooking, or eating of pudding’.

pudding-book n.

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1865 (title) Massey and Son's Comprehensive Pudding Book, containing above one thousand Recipes.

2001 Leicester Mercury (Nexis) 5 Apr. 21 They use a recipe from the WI Pudding Book. It serves four.

pudding-cloth n.

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1709 T. Hall Queen's Royal Cookery 48 Put your Pudding-cloth in boiling Water, and let it boil a little, then squeeze it out, and spread it all over with Butter.

1845 E. Acton Mod. Cookery xii. 307 The bird..wrapped in a thin pudding-cloth, closely tied at both ends.

1971 Country Life 17 June 1537/2 He tried to do it with oddments of coloured knitting wools on a pudding cloth.

2005 Spectator (Nexis) 17 Dec. 58 How about a cannonball plum pudding, cooked in a cloth? The pudding cloth was a great invention.

pudding-crock n.

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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > [noun] > dish in which puddings are made

pudding-crock1495

pudding-dish1576

pudding-bowla1584

pudding basin1773

1495 Will of Johanne Geffereys (P.R.O.: PROB. 11/10) f. 114^v Podding crokke.

1937 Times 1 Jan. 15/6 The poor probably had their hair cut at home, their heads encircled by a pudding crock.

1968 News (Frederick, Va.) 11 Apr. b3/2 Willow-ware china, end tables, blue flowered pudding crock, kerosene stove, refrigerator.

pudding fork n.

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1896 Woman'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.

1914 J. Joyce Dubliners 255 Freddy Malins beat time with his pudding-fork.

1991 Guardian (Nexis) 10 Oct. These entertaining Japanese businessmen in the corporate hospitality boxes tinkled reassuring applause with pudding forks and their champagne glasses.

pudding mould n.

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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > [noun] > mould

mould1573

farme1623

shape1769

Turk's cap1859

pudding mould1883

timbale mould1895

Bundt1903

timbale1906

1883 Wellsboro (Pa.) Agitator 29 May 4/7 Turn the mixture into a buttered pudding mould and tie a cloth over it.

1902 Daily Chron. 15 Feb. 8/4 Butter a pudding mould, and cover the inside with stoned raisins.

1975 S. Afr. Panorama Jan. 14 Kitchen shelves..held..items such as a candle mould, pudding moulds, [etc.].

2004 Standard (St Catherines, Ont.) (Nexis) 3 Sept. c12 The breakfast included a sampling of Kraft's other cereals as well as a raffle and free Jello pudding moulds.

pudding-pan n.

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1592 T. Nashe Pierce Penilesse sig. B1 Dame Niggardize his wife, in a sedge rug kirtle,..an old wiues pudding pan on her head.

1662 R. Mathews Unlearned Alchymist (new ed.) §116. 190 In an old pudding pan, or a frying-pan, keep them always stirring.

1731 in N. W. Alcock People at Home (1993) viii. 147 One warming pan, three tin puding pans.

1829 R. Southey Poet. Wks. 702 When in your throat you feel the long sharp knife, And the blood trickles to the pudding-pan.

1989 Cook's Nov. 54/2 Specially made pudding pans (metal tube pans with tight-fitting lids) have replaced the pudding bag.

pudding plate n.

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the world > food and drink > food > setting table > table utensils > [noun] > table-vessels > dish or plate > other types of dish

spice-plate1391

pie plate1573

maple dish1637

cheese platea1665

supper dish1664

copperplate1665

reaming dish1712

paper plate1723

pickle leaf1762

pap-boat1782

supper1787

vegetable dish1799

well-dish1814

ice plate1820

pudding plate1838

tea plate1862

picnic plate1885

strawberry dish1941

1838 R. S. Surtees Jorrocks's Jaunts ii. 32 The impossibility of putting a round of beef upon a pudding plate.

1900 Portsmouth (New Hampsh.) Herald 13 Apr. 4/4 It is said that the starfish will grow as large as a pudding plate where the conditions are favorable.

1958 J. Cannan And be Villain iii. 68 Squeezing out of the dinette with the piled pudding plates.

1970 Canad. Antiques Collector May 8/1 (advt.) Comprising..8 Shaped dishes, 12 Pudding plates, and 18 Dessert plates.

2006 Guardian (Nexis) 17 Jan. 2 He did not stick around longer than he had to, leaving as soon as the pudding plates had been cleared.

pudding rice n.

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1913 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 4 Aug. 6/5 With soups, soft boiled eggs, meat, custards, plain pudding rice and fruit you should fare very well during this period.

1974 Times 10 Jan. 10/1 Long grain and short or round grain, often called ‘pudding’ rice.

1985 R. Fernandez Malaysian Cookery 26 In some recipes I have used glutinous rice. The grains are short and fat and contain more starch. You can substitute pudding rice.

pudding-spoon n.

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1873 Catholic World July 502 The making of that ‘stirabout’ was a fine-art,..the motion of the pudding-spoon was as exact as a sonnet.

1944 A. Thirkell Headmistress iv. 73 Giving a final polish to the pudding spoons with a piece of washleather.

2005 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 10 Dec. 4 This historic construction enabled food to be taken off the spoon from the front or the side, functions that are now fulfilled by two separate pieces, the pudding spoon and the soup spoon.

C2.

† pudding-ale n. Obsolete rare cheap ale. N. E. D. (1909) notes ‘probably "from its being thick like pudding" (Skeat)’.

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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > ale or beer > ale > [noun] > cheap or thin ale

penny alec1400

pudding-alec1400

c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. v. 220 (MED) Peny ale and podyng ale she poured togideres For laboreres and for low folke.

pudding basin n. a basin in which puddings are made; (in extended use) a hat, helmet, etc., resembling this; (attributive, of a person's hair or hairstyle) shaped, or apparently shaped, by cutting round the edge of a pudding basin.

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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > [noun] > dish in which puddings are made

pudding-crock1495

pudding-dish1576

pudding-bowla1584

pudding basin1773

the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > hat > round

mushroom1843

polo1905

pudding basin1909

society > armed hostility > military equipment > armour > helmet > [noun] > other types of helmet

kettle-hat1380

salletc1440

knapscall1498

armet1507

bonnet?a1513

morion1547

burgonet1570

heaume1572

Bourguignonne1578

castle1587

casquet1611

cabasset1622

casquetel1796

knapscapa1802

comb-cap1825

tilting-helmet1846

pickelhaube1853

Waterloo helmet1853

bell-shape1869

schapska1894

pudding basin1925

the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > styles of hair > [noun] > cut or cropped

roundinga1582

stumps1584

stubs1607

trim1608

tonsure1650

committee cut1691

rasure1737

crop1795

county crop1839

flat-top1859

prison cropc1863

clip1889

Dartmoor crop1930

razor cut1940

prison haircut1948

scissor cut1948

cut1951

pudding basin1951

short back and sides1965

1773 New-York Gaz. 15 Mar. s231 (advt.) Striped and clouded dishes of divers colours, pudding and wash basons.

1844 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit xxxix. 451 First, she tripped down stairs into the kitchen for the flour, then for the pie-board,..then for a pudding-basin.

1909 Westm. Gaz. 3 June 8/3 A grey straw hat of the inverted pudding-basin type.

1925 E. Fraser & J. Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words 231 Pudding basin, the British steel shrapnel helmet. (From its shape.)

1951 A. Baron Rosie Hogarth i. ii. 19 Each boy's hair close-cropped with a pudding-basin fringe.

1974 Country Life 28 Feb. 456/3 A male customer is looking for..shooting and fishing hats, saucy tweed pudding basins and tweed caps.

1985 Hair Summer 17/2 The Beatles' pudding basin cuts.

2005 Sunday Times (Nexis) 28 Aug. (News Review section) 1 The physical makeover has replaced her pudding-basin haircut with soft layers and highlights.

pudding-bowl n. = pudding basin n.

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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > [noun] > dish in which puddings are made

pudding-crock1495

pudding-dish1576

pudding-bowla1584

pudding basin1773

a1584 Tom Thumbe 89 in W. C. Hazlitt Remains Early Pop. Poetry Eng. (1864) II. 181 He sate vpon the Pudding-Boule, the candle for to hold.

1706 E. Ward Rambling Fuddle-caps 10 You look like that little Tom Thumb, by my Soul, Just waded from out of the great Pudding-Bowl.

1895 R. Kipling Second Jungle Bk. 177 Bylot's Island stands above the ice like a pudding-bowl wrong side up.

1964 M. Gallant in R. Weaver Canad. Short Stories (1968) 2nd Ser. 95 She was a nice..person, with..pudding-bowl haircut.

1995 Field Mar. 46/2 Roll out two thirds of the dough and line a large pudding bowl with it.

pudding bree n. Scottish = pudding broo n.See note at pudding broo n.

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1769 Get up & bar the Door in D. Herd Anc. & Mod. Scots Songs 331 Will ye kiss my wife before my een, And scad me wi' pudding bree?

pudding broo n. Scottish the water in which a pudding (sense 1a) has been boiled. Sc. National Dict. s.v. records the compounds puddin-bree and puddin-broo as still in use in Orkney, Aberdeenshire, Perthshire, and Kirkcudbright in 1966.

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1706 Short Surv. Married Life 9 One may know by your din Skin, you have been Baptiz'd with Pudding Broo.

pudding-cake n. a cake which has been cooked by boiling rather than baking.

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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > cake > [noun] > a cake > other cakes

honey appleeOE

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Nelson cake1877

cocoa cake1883

sesame cake1883

marinade1888

mystery1889

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stuffed monkey1892

Greek bread1893

Battenberg1903

Oswego cake1907

nusstorte1911

dump cake1912

Dobos Torte1915

lekach1918

buckle1935

Florentine1936

hash cake1967

space cake1984

?1553 Respublica (1952) iii. iii. 22 Whares Rice puddingcake?

1684 Ερωτοπολις 51 They make no more of an Oath, a Vow, or a Protestation, than a Sussex Bumpkin does of a pudding-Cake in a morning for his Breakfast.

1710 P. Lamb Royal Cookery 106 (heading) To make a Pudding-Cake.

1750 W. Ellis Country Housewife's Family Compan. 147 She drew away the wooden Paddle or Skimmer, and left the Pudding-cake to sink or boil longer.

1875 W. D. Parish Dict. Sussex Dial. Pudding-cake, a composition of flour and water boiled; differing from a hard dick in shape only, being flat instead of round.

a1992 L. Colwin More Home Cooking (1993) iv. 24 Lemon ice, lemon pound cake, and lemon pudding cake.

pudding-cart n. now historical a cart for offal or refuse.

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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > clearing of refuse matter > refuse disposal > [noun] > refuse truck or cart

pudding-cart1562

dust-cart1776

refuse cart1845

garbage truck1874

sanitation truck1958

1562 Lawes of Markette sig. Bi The Poding Carte of the shambelles, shall not go afore the howre of nine in the nyght, nor after the howre of fiue in the mornyng.

1568 W. Turner New Bk. Natures of Wines sig. D.j^v If the maister of the pudding cart..would let the filthines of the butcherie tarie so long there vntill it stank so sore..that..all of the neighbours about were grieuouslye vexed [etc.].

2002 National Post (Canada) (Nexis) 18 Dec. al3 The ‘pudding cart’ hauled them [sc. entrails] away from slaughter to the ‘pudding pit’ where they were dumped.

pudding chain n. Nautical a type of chain used in rigging (see quot. 1948).

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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > ropes or chains other than rigging or cable > [noun] > type of chain

pudding chain1948

1948 R. 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.

1982 P. Clissold Layton's Dict. Naut. Words (rev. ed.) Pudding Chain, Short link chain especially made for reeving through a block. Used for halyards and sheets before wire rope was introduced.

pudding class n. slang rare = pudding club n.

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1969 E. 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.

pudding club n. slang the state or condition of being pregnant; = club n. 14c.

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1890 A. Barrère & C. G. Leland Dict. Slang II. 155/1 Pudding club (popular), a woman in the family way is said to be in the pudding club.

1936 ‘J. Curtis’ Gilt Kid iv. 38 You were put in the pudden club by the squire's son.

1978 L. Davidson Chelsea Murders v. 28 ‘Was she in the pudding club?’..‘Probably. They aren't saying.’

2005 Daily Star (Nexis) 7 Mar. 11 Other women would let trifling matters like [being] five months in the pudding club, having two left feet or not being able to carry a tune hold them back.

pudding-dish n. a dish in which puddings are made or served; (in extended use) something resembling this.

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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > [noun] > dish in which puddings are made

pudding-crock1495

pudding-dish1576

pudding-bowla1584

pudding basin1773

1576 in R. Machin Probate Inventories Chetnole, Leigh & Yetminster (1976) No. 1 In the hawle..eyght platters 2 poddendyshes 3 sawsers 4 candelsticks two salte sellers.

1776 Pennsylvania Ledger 20 Apr. Joseph Stansbury..is selling off..his baking dishes, compotiers, pudding dishes [etc.].

1829 H. W. Longfellow Jrnl. 25 Jan. in S. Longfellow Life H. W. Longfellow (1886) I. xi. 163 The Devil, dressed like a collier, with smutty face and pudding-dish hat.

1858 R. S. Surtees Ask Mamma xxx. 124 A hot-water pudding-dish.

1907 St. Nicholas July 798/2 The little old dumpling of a woman in the..inverted pudding-dish of a bonnet.

2005 Washington Times (Nexis) 18 June d1 ‘Looks like an upside-down pudding dish, doesn't it, luv?’ the taxi driver said as we drove past the new Wales Millennium Centre.

pudding-eater n. a person who eats puddings (in early use sometimes derogatory).

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1680 J. Rushworth Hist. Coll.: Second Pt. (1721) II. 1055 Saying, that..Brown was no Gentleman, but descended from Brown the great Pudding-eater in Kent.

1726 Learned Diss. Dumpling 23 Let not Englishmen therefore be asham'd of the Name of Pudding-Eaters.

1807 R. Wilson Jrnl. 7 June in Life Gen. Sir R. Wilson (1862) II. viii. 253 We slept like pudding-eaters although we had not enjoyed any such luxury for many days.

1840 J. H. Frere tr. Aristophanes Acharnians 50 Welcome kindly, My little pudding-eater! What have you brought?

1967 Daily Courier (Connesville, Pa.) 21 Sept. 23/4 A very palatable dessert as easy on the cook as it is on the pudding eaters.

2005 Chicago Tribune (Nexis) 12 May c7 To the Brits, the world's most worshipful of pudding-eaters, the word [pudding] has become generic for ‘dessert’.

pudding face n. a face resembling a pudding in shape or colour; a round, fat, or pallid face; (also) a name for a person having such a face.

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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > types of face > [noun]

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bitch face1969

1748 S. Richardson Clarissa IV. xxxvi. 205 Let me see what a mixture of grief and surprize may be beat up together in thy pudden-face.

a1806 J. Barry in R. N. Wornum Lect. on Painting (1848) 94 The hatchet or the pudding face.

1849 J. L. Motley Merry-mount I. 5 Robert Bootefish was a short, squat-looking individual of fifty, with a pudding face, in which a pair of twinkling eyes were almost extinguished by his shaggy brows.

1854 R. S. Surtees Handley Cross I. lxii. 451 Pigg then took a comprehensive survey of him, noted his hairy lip, his pudding face, and vacant eye.

1916 ‘Taffrail’ Pincher Martin vii. 116 Orl right, old puddin'-face. Keep yer 'air on!

1950 G. Brenan Face of Spain iv. 84 The Englishman, fresh from the dull hurry of London streets and from their sea of pudding faces.

2006 Weekend Austral. (Nexis) 14 Jan. 34 Who can resist that pudding face of hers, which can register a virtual dictionary of emotions?

pudding-faced adj. (of a person) that has a pudding face (see pudding face n.).

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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > types of face > [adjective]

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1777 Laughing Philos. 40 You will see a pudding-faced fellow with an acre of face to a mole-hill of hat.

1833 T. Carlyle in Fraser's Mag. July 27/1 Stupid, pudding-faced as he looks and is, there is a vulpine astucity in him,..an oiliness so plausible-looking.

1847 L. Hunt Men, Women, & Bks. I. ii. 23 Four boys going to school, very pudding-faced.

1993 Time 26 July 67/3 Kevin Anderson looks pudding-faced and pudgy.

pudding fender n. = sense 6(b).

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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > other equipment of vessel > [noun] > fender

junk1528

puddinga1625

fender1626

fend1658

fend-bolt1678

bongrace1685

skid1743

pudding fender1883

sausage1968

1883 Man. Seamanship for Boys' Training Ships Royal Navy 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.

1961 F. H. Burgess Dict. Sailing 164 Pudding fender, a fat enclosed bundle of old strands, etc., for use over the side of boats and yachts.

1997 Hobart (Austral.) Mercury (Nexis) 20 Dec. Now toss in an old telescope, a pudding fender made of coir rope..and the scene is set for a truly maritime bonanza.

† pudding filler n. Obsolete rare probably: a person who puts the fillings in puddings. N.E.D. (1909) has ‘one who lives to eat, a glutton’, but contextual evidence supports a literal reading.

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1568 Gen. Satire in W. T. Ritchie Bannatyne MS (1928) II. 150 Sic pudding fillaris, discending doun frome millaris W^tin this land wes nevir hard nor sene.

† pudding fish n. Obsolete rare = pudding-wife n. 2.

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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > suborder Percoidei > [noun] > member of family Coryphaenidae (dolphin)

gilthead1538

dorado1604

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goldfish1670

pudding-wife1735

river porpoise1736

river dolphin1781

pudding fish?a1808

mahimahi1905

lampuki1925

?a1808 Universal Syst. Nat. Hist. IX. 519 The Pudding Fish. Specific character, tail rounded; lateral line composed of linear scales divided into three bifid branches.

1825 W. Hamilton Hand-bk. Terms Arts & Sci. 315/2 Pudding fish, in Ichthyology, the sparus radiatus.

pudding gut n. now historical the entrail or skin used in making puddings.

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the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > part or joint of animal > [noun] > pluck, offal, or tripe > intestines used as envelope

gut1598

pudding gut1598

1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes A reede that cookes vse to blow the pudding guts before they fill them.

2002 National Post (Canada) (Nexis) 18 Dec. al3 Entrails of an animal were called ‘pudding guts’.

pudding-head n. derogatory a stupid person.

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the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupid, foolish, or inadequate person > stupid person, dolt, blockhead > [noun]

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Joe Soap1943

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nong1944

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rock-head1947

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jerko1949

turkey1951

momo1953

poop-head1955

a right one1958

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Herbert1960

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dick1966

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doof1971

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thicko1976

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no-brainer1979

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woodentop1981

dickwad1983

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dick-sucker1989

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Muppet1989

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1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick cviii. 524 Pudding-heads should never grant premises.

c1865 B. A. Baker Glance at N.Y. i. v. 17 Allow me to propose a speech from our worthy landlord... Louder, old puddin head, louder.

1893 ‘M. Twain’ in Cent. Mag. Dec. 235/2 Perfect jackass—yes, and it ain't going too far to say he's a pudd'nhead.

1952 S. Kauffmann Tightrope xiv. 243 Why, you're not doing this at all badly, pudding head.

1978 P. G. Winslow Coppergold 153 I didn't tell Joss, no matter what that Yorkshire puddenhead thinks.

2004 South Bend (Indiana) Tribune (Nexis) 1 June b8 Thanks for having the patience to deal with hoards [sic] of pudding-heads like me day after day.

pudding-headed adj. foolish, stupid.

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the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupidity, dullness of intellect > [adjective]

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boobily1673

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Bœotic1678

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dunderheaded1692

unintelligible1694

buffle-headed1697

crassicc1700

numbskulled1707

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doddy-polled1708

haggis-headed1715

niddy-noddy1722

muzzy1723

pudding-headed1726

sumphish1728

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duncey1743

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dumb1756

duncely1757

imbecile1766

mutton-headed1768

chuckle-headed1770

jobbernowl1770

dowfarta1774

boobyish1778

wittol1780

staumrel1787

opaquec1789

stoopid1791

mud-headed1793

borné1795

muzzy-headed1798

nog-headed1800

thick-headed1801

gypit1804

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lightweight1809

numbskull1814

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chuckle-pate1820

unintellectuala1821

dense1822

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beef-headed1828

donkeyish1831

blockheadish1833

pinheaded1837

squirrel-minded1837

pumpkin-headed1838

tomfoolish1838

dundering1840

chicken-headed1842

like a bump on a log1842

ninny-minded1849

numbheadeda1852

nincompoopish1852

suet-brained1852

dolly1853

mullet-headed1853

sodden1853

fiddle-headed1854

numb1854

bovine1855

logy1859

crass1861

unsmart1861

off his chump1864

wooden-headed1865

stupe1866

lean-minded1867

duffing1869

cretinous1871

doddering1871

thick-head1873

doddling1874

stupido1879

boneheaded1883

woolly-headed1883

leaden-natured1889

suet-headed1890

sam-sodden1891

dopey1896

turnip-headed1898

bonehead1903

wool-witted1905

peanut-headed1906

peanut-brained1907

dilly1909

torpid-minded1909

retardate1912

nitwitted1917

meat-headed1918

mug1922

cloth-headed1925

loopy1925

nitwit1928

lame-brained1929

dead from the neck up1930

simpy1932

nail-headed1936

square-headed1936

dingbats1937

pinhead1939

dim-witted1940

pea-brained1942

clueless1943

lobotomized1943

retarded1949

pointy-headed1950

clottish1952

like a stunned mullet1953

silly (or crazy) as a two-bob watch1954

out to lunch1955

pin-brained1958

dozy1959

eejity1964

out of one's tiny mind1965

doofus1967

twitty1967

twittish1969

twatty1975

twattish1976

blur1977

dof1979

goofus1981

dickheaded1991

dickish1991

numpty1992

cockish1996

1726 Learned 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.

1867 C. Dickens Let. 16 Dec. (1999) XI. 513 Surely it is time that the pudding-headed Dolby retired into the native gloom from which he has emerged.

1983 R. Lederer in Verbatim IX. iii. 23/2 The half-baked, pudding-headed vegetables, meatheads who drive us nuts with their slow-as-molasses pea brains.

pudding heart n. rare a soft or tender heart; (also) a coward.

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1834 H. Taylor Philip van Artevelde 2nd Pt. iii. i. 70 Go, pudding-heart! Take thy huge offal and white liver hence.

2004 Daily Variety (Nexis) 27 Feb. 8 We want at least a communicated profundity of feeling, or a starker contrast between Tevye's tough exterior and his soft pudding heart.

† pudding house n. (a) colloquial the stomach or belly (obsolete) (b) a place where offal or pudding is kept, prepared, or sold (obsolete (historical in later use)).

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the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > digestive organs > stomach or belly > [noun]

maweOE

wombOE

codc1275

cropc1325

gut1362

stomachc1374

bellyc1375

pauncha1393

flanka1398

heartc1400

kitchen?a1500

kytec1540

micklewame1566

craw1574

ventricle1574

pudding house1583

buck1607

wame1611

ventricule1677

ventriculus1710

victualling-office1751

breadbasket1753

haggis1757

haggis bagc1775

baggie1786

pechan1786

manyplies1787

middle piece1817

inner man1856

inner woman1857

tum-tum1864

tum1867

tummy1867

keg1887

stummick1888

kishke1902

shit-bag1902

Little Mary1903

puku1917

Maconochie1919

1583 B. Melbancke Philotimus (new ed.) sig. R4 Seruing a Lady in Italy as a Tom drudge of the pudding house, or a groome to her close stoole.

1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden sig. B4^v What a commotion there was in his entrayles or pudding-house for want of food.

1609 S. Rowlands Knave of Clubbes 24 His pudding-house at length began to swell.

1620 Westward for Smelts (1848) 5 The pudding-house at Brooke's wharfe.

1760 Deloney's Delightful Hist. Gentle-craft (new ed.) 106 My faithful Friends, and Conduit-Companions, Treasures of the Water-Tankard, and main Pillars of the Pudding-House.

1905 News (Frederick, Maryland) 11 Feb. They..had a house or chamber in which to work near the kitchen called the pudding house.

pudding meat n. the meat stuffing for a pudding (sense 1).

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1653 J. Ford Queen sig. B3 Good boy i faith, by this hand a' speaks just as I would do, for all that he is so near being made puddings meat.]

1707 E. Ward Barbacue Feast 6 They were commanded by the chief Rulers of the Feast, to be pinn'd up in a sty, and for the little Remainder of their Lives, to be fed with nothing but Pudding-Meat, that is, Blood, Grits and sweet Herbs.

1777 J. Brand Observ. Pop. Antiq. App. 355 A Kind of Pudding-Meat, consisting of Blood, Suet, Groats, etc.

1869 Atlantic Q. Oct. 483 Some make pawn-haus from the liquor in which the pudding meat was boiled, adding thereto corn-meal.

1924 Coshocton (Ohio) Tribune 4 Jan. 5/1 Our Baltic Sausage, Spareribs, Back Bones and Pudding meat went like hot cakes.

1976 Frederick (Maryland) Post 16 Mar. (Bicentennial Suppl.) 7/3 After being ground similar to the size of hamburger parts, this pudding meat was again cooked in the lard kettle.

1993 Chicago Sun-Times (Nexis) 5 Aug. (Food section) 2 Even after many years away from the farm in Virginia, my mouth waters at the memory of pudding meat, panhorse and scrapple.

† pudding-pack n. Obsolete rare = pudding tobacco n.

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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > [noun] > tobacco in a roll, cake, or stick

cane-tobacco1600

pudding tobacco1601

roll1602

tobacco roll1602

canea1612

pudding-packa1618

prick1666

pigtail1681

nova1688

prick tobacco1688

plug1729

plug tobacco1788

twist1791

carrot1808

cavendish1839

nail-rod1848

hard1865

twist tobacco1894

a1618 J. Sylvester Tobacco Battered in tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Diuine Weekes & Wks. (1621) 1145 Impose so deep a Taxe On All these Ball, Leafe, Cane, and Pudding Packs.

pudding pipe n. (more fully pudding-pipe tree) the golden shower, Cassia fistula (family Fabaceae ( Leguminosae)), which has long pipe-like seed pods; cf. purging cassia n. at purging adj. Compounds.

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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular medicinal plants or parts > medicinal trees or shrubs > [noun] > non-British medicinal trees or shrubs > pudding-pipe tree

fistulaa1382

cassia fistulaa1398

pudding-pipe tree1597

cassia-stick tree1756

golden shower1882

1597 J. Gerard Herball iii. 1242 Cassia fistula..may also be Englished Pudding Pipe, bicause the cod or pipe is like a pudding.

1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. App. 324 Pudding Pipe-tree, Cassia.

1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. I. 233/1 C. fistula, called the Pudding Pipe Tree from its peculiar pods, is a very handsome tree.

1938 Charleroi (Pa.) Mail 25 July 5/2 ‘Cassia pulp’, used as a medicine, is obtained from the pods of Cassia Fistula, or pudding pipe tree, a native of Africa.

1997 D. J. Mabberley Plant-bk. (ed. 2) 132 C. fistula L. (pudding-pipe tree, purging cassia, Indian laburnum, golden shower, trop. As.).

pudding pit n. now historical a pit into which offal was formerly thrown; also figurative.

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1593 G. Harvey Pierces Supererogation 63 The person, that vnder his hand-writing hath stiled him..the bag-pudding of fooles, & the very pudding-pittes of the wise, or honest.

a1884 M. Cash in J. W. Cross George Eliot's Life (1885) I. iii. 113 A [poor] district to which..the euphonious name of the Pudding-Pits had been given.

2002 National Post (Canada) (Nexis) 18 Dec. al3 The ‘pudding cart’ hauled them [sc. entrails] away from slaughter to the ‘pudding pit’ where they were dumped.

pudding-poke n. English regional (now rare) (a) = pudding-bag n. 1; (b) East Anglian the long-tailed tit, Aegithalos caudatus, cf. poke pudding n. 3, pudding-bag n. 2 (see also quot. 1999).

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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > arboreal families > [noun] > family Aegithalidae > genus Aegithalos (long-tailed titmouse)

poke bag1663

pudding-poke1684

bottle tom1802

bottle tit1817

bumbarrel1817

feather-poke1831

mufflin1837

jack-in-a-bottle1838

pettichaps1851

poke pudding1851

Long Tom1853

muffler1868

hedge-jug1881

ragamuffin1885

the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > cooking vessel or pot > [noun] > pudding-bag

pudding-baga1600

pudding-poke1684

1684 G. Meriton Praise Yorks. Ale l. 179 Our great whean-cat hes eaten'th pudding-poke.

1779 E. Clark Misc. Poems 51 She stuff'd them in the pudding-poke, And popp'd them in the porridge pot.

1823 E. Moor Suffolk Words 294 We hear constantly of the ‘Pudden poke's nest’... The Pudden-poke lays 15 or 20 beautiful eggs, nearly resembling pearls.

1907 R. Davey Sultan & his Subj. (new ed.) vi. 198 Upon their heads they wore a kind of head-dress of cloth, like an immense pudding-poke standing on end.

1999 R. Malster Mardler's Compan. 59/1 Puddenpoke, oven tit or ovenbuilder, the willow tit, from its beautifully constructed nest, or the long-tailed tit. These names are also used for the chiffchaff.

pudding race n. figurative puddings considered as a race or clan.In later use with allusion to quot. 1786.

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1786 R. Burns To Haggis in Poems & Songs (1968) I. 310 Fair fa' your honest, sonsie face, Great Chieftan o' the Puddin-race!

1870 D. Macrae Americans at Home II. 341 With pipers blowing in front, with pipers bringing up the rear, in came the ‘king o' pudding race’, borne aloft by the excited waiter.

2004 Sunday Times 5 Sept. (Features section) 3 She was fed haggis and black pudding by the Scottish side of the family and still loves these monarchs of the pudding race.

pudding-shaped adj. shaped like a pudding; (colloquial) wrong, awry (cf. pear-shaped adj. 3).

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1853 E. S. Dixon in Househ. Words 6 Aug. 549/1 Those pudding-shaped domes.

1859 All Year Round 24 Sept. 511/1 The same melon-plant may produce..monsters half melon-shaped, half pudding-shaped.

1976 S. Wales Echo 23 Nov. A pudding-shaped mound in Energlyn near Caerphilly.

2004 Daily Star (Nexis) 18 Dec. 15 Cambridge's season is going distinctly pudding-shaped following the dismissal of French misfit Herve Renard.

pudding-sleeve n. now rare a large bulging sleeve drawn in at the wrist or above (usually attributive).

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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > parts of clothing > [noun] > covering spec parts of body > arm > types of

poke1402

foresleeve1538

long sleeve1538

lumbard1542

puller out1543

maunch1550

hand sleeve1585

French sleeve1592

poke sleeve1592

puff1601

trunk sleeve1603

stock-sleeve1611

hoop-sleeve1614

puff sleevec1632

short sleeve1639

hanging sleeve1659

engageants1690

jockey-sleeve1692

pudding-sleeve1704

Amadis1814

gigot1824

leg of mutton1824

bishop sleeve1829

mutton-leg sleeve1830

balloon sleeve1837

gigot-sleeve1837

bag-sleeve1844

pagoda sleeve1850

mameluke sleeve1853

angel sleeve1859

elbow-sleeve1875

sling-sleeve1888

sleevelet1889

pagoda1890

bell-sleeve1892

kimono sleeve1919–20

dolman1934

the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [adjective] > having specific parts > sleeves > types of

long sleeve1538

long-sleeved1578

maunched1688

pudding-sleeve1704

gun-sleeved1782

short-sleeved1839

short sleeve1931

1704 T. Baker Act at Oxf. i. i. 4 To ride fifty Miles to see a parcel of antick Professors in slop Shoes, and Pudding-sleeve gowns.

1708 J. Swift Baucis & Philemon 120 He sees..About each arm a pudding-sleeve.

a1814 C. Dibdin Coll. Songs (1814) II. 119 The counsellor say he his client relieve, While he laugh toder side in his pudding-sleeve.

1910 ‘Member of Aristocracy’ Manners & Rules of Good Soc. xi. 85 Archbishops, bishops, and clergy should appear in full canonicals, that is black silk full- or pudding-sleeve gowns, cassock and sash bands.

1960 C. W. Cunnington et al. Dict. Eng. Costume 172/1 Pudding sleeve,..a large loose sleeve, especially of a clergy~man's gown.

† pudding-sleeved adj. Obsolete rare (of a gown) that has pudding-sleeves.

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1901 Times 9 Mar. 15/6 When mine was subscribed for in 1875 I preferred being painted in a surplice rather than the pudding-sleeved black gown of my few unepiscopated predecessors.

pudding-stick n. a stick or paddle used to stir a pudding mixture.

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1728 E. Smith Compl. Housewife (ed. 2) 137 Mix it with a broad Pudding-stick, not with your hands.

1852 H. B. 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.

1878 B. F. Taylor Between Gates 109 You can get an idea of it by fancying a paddle or a pudding~stick turning into a fiddle.

1957 Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 101 287 Well she looked it over and she said it looked just like mother's pudding stick.

† pudding tobacco n. Obsolete compressed tobacco made in rolls resembling a pudding or sausage.

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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > [noun] > tobacco in a roll, cake, or stick

cane-tobacco1600

pudding tobacco1601

roll1602

tobacco roll1602

canea1612

pudding-packa1618

prick1666

pigtail1681

nova1688

prick tobacco1688

plug1729

plug tobacco1788

twist1791

carrot1808

cavendish1839

nail-rod1848

hard1865

twist tobacco1894

1601 B. Jonson Fountaine of Selfe-love ii. ii. sig. D3 He..neuer..praies, but for a Pipe of pudding Tabaco .

1612 B. Rich Trve & Kinde Excvse f. 12^v That doth thinke her selfe to be in as good request as Pudding Tobacco.

1614 Ld. Sackville's Papers respecting Virginia i, in Amer. Hist. Rev. (1922) 27 496 In le Elizabeth Idem, Sir Thomas etc. iiii barells containing i^clxx pound pudding tobacco.

† pudding turnip n. Obsolete rare a variety of turnip (not identified).

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1795 Lett. & Papers Agric. (Bath & West of Eng. Soc.) VII. 86 If I cannot procure crops of it, which will chiefly rise above the surface of the soil, like the long pudding turnip, I shall greatly abate in my present hopes of it.

pudding way n. rare = pudding club n.

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1963 ‘J. Prescot’ Case for Hearing vi. 94 Getting a girl in the pudding way isn't a crime.

† pudding-wright n. Obsolete a person who makes puddings.

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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > cooking > cook > [noun] > pudding-maker

pudding makera1425

pudding-wife1520–40

pudding-wright1598

1598 R. Bernard tr. Terence Eunuch ii. ii, in Terence in Eng. 127 Cookes, puddingwrights [printed buddingwrights].

1636 in A. M. Munro Rec. Old Aberdeen (1899) I. 349 Elspet Gray, puddinwricht.

Derivatives

ˈpuddingish adj. like or of the nature of a pudding, puddingy.

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1832 Monthly Rev. June 257 The eldest was a clumsy, puddingish girl, with a complexion that ought to have been fair, but was muddy.

1866 R. Buchanan in Academy 15 June (1901) 506/1 Right stately sat Arnold..With puddingish England serenely disgusted.

1966 W. Percy Last Gentleman iv. viii. 189 He reminded the engineer of the graduates of Horace Mann, their faces quick and puddingish and acned.

2005 Observer (Nexis) 10 Apr. (Food Monthly Suppl.) 64 Back to the drawing board I think—puddingish pastry and herby, greenish, milky sauce.

ˈpuddingless adj.

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1831 W. P. Scargill Atherton I. i. 2 To abstain from spending an hour or two there in the evening would have appeared to them as great a violation of propriety as sitting down to cold meat and a puddingless table on Sunday.

1855 Househ. Words 12 168 We went puddingless that Christmas-day.

1966 Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 6 Dec. 24/4 Both places were a hundred miles from those two lonely puddingless guards.

2003 Times Educ. Suppl. (Nexis) 24 Jan. 27 He was disappointed when the waitress didn't offer it as an option and resigned himself to going puddingless.

ˈpudding-like adj.

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1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Cartouche, also, a peece of pastboord or thick paper stuffed (in a round or pudding like forme) with bullets, etc.

1765 H. Jackson Ess. Brit. Isinglass ix Others..insinuate, that the whole Secret consists in stewing down Tripe, and (Pudding-like) all the unsaleable refuse Isinglass of the Shops.

1814 M. Capel Let. 7 June (1955) i. 36 I..think Alexander not the least handsome—horridly Pink & Puddinglike.

1951 Sport 16–22 Mar. 5/1 The ball we used at the outset became soft—not burst or anything like that, but just a little ‘pudding-like’.

2014 L. Diamond & A. Hermanson New Gluten-Free Recipes ii. 66 Adding potato starch helps to thicken and add a pudding-like texture to baked goods.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	pudding
释义	puddingn. Brit. /ˈpʊdɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈpʊdɪŋ/ Forms: Middle English podding, Middle English poddyng, Middle English poodyng (in a late copy), Middle English punding (transmission error), Middle English 1600s–1700s puding, Middle English–1500s poddynge, Middle English–1500s poding, Middle English–1500s podyng, Middle English–1500s puddyng, Middle English–1500s puddynge, Middle English– pudding, 1500s podynge, 1500s pooddyng, 1500s pooding, 1500s–1600s puddinge, 1500s– pudden (now regional and nonstandard), 1500s– puddin (now regional and nonstandard), 1800s puddeen (Irish English (Wexford)), 1800s– pudd'n (regional and nonstandard); also Scottish pre-1700 powding, pre-1700 puddein, pre-1700 puddine, pre-1700 puddyng, pre-1700 pudyn, pre-1700 1700s puden, pre-1700 1700s puding, 1700s pudin. N.E.D. (1909) also records a form puddingh. Origin: Probably a borrowing from French. Etymons: French bodeyn, bodin. Etymology: Probably < Anglo-Norman bodeyn, bodin sausage (second half of the 13th cent. or earlier), (in plural) intestines, entrails (1396 in plural bodeyns , with reference to animal intestines; compare Old French, Middle French, French boudin sausage, blood sausage (c1270), (now regional: chiefly Normandy) intestines, entrails, (now slang) belly, stomach (of a person) (1568 or earlier); further etymology uncertain and disputed: see note), with alteration of the ending after nouns in -ing (compare -ing suffix³). Earlier currency of the English word is apparently implied by post-classical Latin pudingum (c1245 apparently in sense ‘sausage’ in a British source; probably < English).The initial p- of the English word is apparently not paralleled in French (although see below for two possible Anglo-Norman counterexamples), and would show an irregular phonological development. It has been suggested that the voiceless initial may result from the influence of other words with which the word may have been associated semantically in English (see below), although it should be noted that most of these are first attested much later and the semantic connection is not close. For a possible parallel compare later purrell n., and perhaps also earlier purse n. It is unclear whether examples such as the following are to be regarded as showing the Middle English word or (otherwise unattested) variants with initial p- of the Anglo-Norman word (or perhaps borrowings from Middle English into Anglo-Norman):c1300 Glosses to De Nominibus Utensilium of Alexander Neckam (Linc. 132) in T. Hunt Teaching & Learning Lat. in 13th-cent. Eng. (1991) II. 71 Tu(n)cetis : de puudincques.c1300 Glosses to Comm. to Garland's Dict. (Linc. 132) in T. Hunt Teaching & Learning Lat. in 13th-cent. Eng. (1991) II. 150 Truceta vel tunseta : gallice puddins. As for the ulterior etymology of the French word, Französisches etymol. Wörterbuch at bod- suggests that French boudin* is formed < a Romance base bod- denoting bulging, swollen objects, which is of imitative origin, and cites a number of apparent (largely regional) Romance cognates in similar senses; however, this view is not generally accepted. In spite of their semantic and (at least superficial) formal similarity, it is unclear whether Italian (now archaic or regional: northern) boldone* blood sausage (a1556; of uncertain origin) and classical Latin botulus sausage (see botulism n.) are etymologically related. An alternative etymology derives the word < a Germanic base (of imitative origin) taken to be shown also by Old English puduc wen, swelling (rare) + -ing suffix³. (Old English puduc would thus be formed from the same base + -ock suffix). It has frequently been suggested that the same Germanic base is also seen in pod n.¹, pud n.², podge n., pudge n.², English regional (southern) poud boil, ulcer (recorded from the 18th–early 20th cent. by Eng. Dial. Dict. at that entry), as well as in other Germanic words, e.g. Dutch regional poddik thick soft mass, kind of pudding, shortish child, short fat person, Middle Low German puddich (rare) fat, corpulent (German regional (Low German: Bremen) puddig thick, stumpy), German regional (Low German: Bremen) pudde- (in pudde-wurst large sausage, especially black pudding, also (figurative) fat person), (Westphalia) puddek dumpling, sausage, (Mecklenburg) pūden boil, ulcer, swollen body part, (Berlin, Brandenburg) puddel small person, small fat child, especially a child just beginning to walk, (Pomerania) puddik swollen gland. However, in spite of their phonological and semantic similarities, it is unclear whether any of these words are etymologically related, and, with the exception of puduc , they are all first attested much later (in a number of cases very much later). With sense 2 compare Middle French, French boudin stomach, belly (1568 or earlier, with reference to humans; now slang). With sense 8 compare French boudin fuse used to cause an explosion in a mine (1680 in this sense), saucisson kind of fuse (1623; lit. ‘sausage’). In pudding-ale n. at Compounds 2, probably so called on account of the ale being thick like pudding; compare penny ale n. at penny n. Compounds 2. The English word was borrowed into many other European languages. Compare French pudding (1688; also pouding (1754)), Spanish budín (19th cent.; also budin , pudín , pudin ), Portuguese pudim (1799), Italian pudding (1823; compare earlier puddinga puddingstone: see puddingstone n.), Dutch pudding (1661 as †podding ), German Pudding (17th cent.), Danish budding (early 18th cent.; also (rare) pudding (c1800)), Swedish budding (1682; now regional), buding (c1710; now regional), pudding (c1710), and also Irish putóg intestine, pudding, Scottish Gaelic putag pudding. The word is apparently attested earlier as a byname and surname: Agelword Pudding (c1100), Aluredus Pudding (1176), Willelmus Pudding (1202), Stephano Pudding (c1225), etc. However, it is possible that at least some of these instances show a patronymic formed from the Old English byname Puda . See further G. Tengvik Old English Bynames (1938) 145. (On surnames which have been suggested as showing very much earlier currency of puddy adj. see discussion at that entry.) I. A stuffed entrail or sausage, and related senses. 1. a. The stomach or one of the entrails (in early use sometimes the neck) of a pig, sheep, or other animal, stuffed with a mixture of minced meat, suet, oatmeal, seasoning, etc., and boiled; a kind of sausage. Also as a mass noun: a quantity of this. Now Scottish, English regional, and Irish English (northern).For specific varieties of pudding, as black pudding, blood pudding, hog's pudding, white pudding, etc., see the first element.In quot. c1500 with implication of extended use at 9a. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > sausage > [noun] pudding1287 saucister1347 sausage14.. sauserling1475 pota1500 gigot1553 isingc1560 gut-pudding1697 small goods1716 jegget1736 German duck1785 pud1828 dog1891 Zepp1915 Zeppelin1915 wors1923 snag1941 1287 in W. Hudson Leet Jurisdict. Norwich (1892) 8 (MED) Omnes illi de Sproxton vendunt hillas et pudinges, emunt scienter porcos superseminatos et vendunt in foro Norwyci predictas hillas et pundinges non necessarias corporibus hominum. ?c1335 (a1300) Land of Cokaygne 59 in W. Heuser Kildare-Gedichte (1904) 146 Þe pinnes beþ fat podinges, Rich met to princez and kinges. c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. xiii. 63 (MED) He eet many sondry metes, mortrewes and puddynges. c1450 in T. Austin Two 15th-cent. Cookery-bks. (1888) 42 Puddyng of purpaysse..putte þis in þe Gutte of þe purpays. a1475 Liber Cocorum (Sloane) (1862) 48 (MED) Take þo neck, avoyde þe bone, And make a puddyng þer of..þen Sew fast þo bylle grete ende. a1500 in R. L. Greene Early Eng. Carols (1935) 286 (MED) Bryng vs in no podynges, for therin is al Godes good. c1500 in R. H. Robbins Secular Lyrics 14th & 15th Cent. (1952) 194–5 (MED) Podynges at nyght and podynges at none; Were nat for podynges the world were clene done..I will haue a podyng that will stand by hymself..I will haue a podyng that grows out of a man. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 265 Sausedge a podyng. 1584 T. Cogan Hauen of Health cxlix. 128 Of the inwarde of beastes are made Puddinges, which are best of an hogge. 1615 G. Markham Eng. House-wife (1660) 178 Pudding which is called the Haggas or Haggus, of whose goodnesse it is vain to boast. 1617 F. Moryson Itinerary iii. ii. iii. 81 In lower Germany they supply the meale with bacon and great dried puddings, which puddings are sauory and so pleasant. 1659 J. Howell Let. Advice towards Mariage in Proverbs sig. ¶2^v, in Lex. Tetraglotton (1660) There must be Suet as well as Oatmeal to make a Pudding. 1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 269. ¶8 He had sent a string of Hogs-puddings..to every poor Family in the Parish. 1776 D. Herd Anc. & Mod. Sc. Songs (ed. 2) II. 160 Our goodwife got puddings to make, And she's boiled them in the pan. a1801 R. Gall Poems & Songs (1819) 66 The puddings, bairns, are just in season—They're newly made. 1819 Sporting Mag. 5 32 In Suffolk, black puddings made in guts are called links. 1869 Overland Monthly Aug. 129/2 In most of the Atlantic Southern States there is a dish to be found about hog-slaughtering time, named ‘puddings’. It consists of swine's flesh, bread, sage, and other matters of nourishment and seasoning, chopped fine, and then squirted out into links from the end of a sausage-gun. 1899 R. M. Gilchrist Nicholas 196 Th' puddin's weere talked o' i' Milton for months. 1953 M. Traynor Eng. Dial. Donegal p. 221/1 Puddings,..the stuffed entrails of a pig. 2006 Daily Mail (Nexis) 25 Jan. 31 An average haggis includes about 19g of carbohydrates and around 10g of protein per 100g of pudding. b. A stuffing made of a mixture of minced meat, suet, oatmeal, seasoning, etc., and roasted within the body of the animal. Also figurative. Now historical. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > additive > stuffing > [noun] > other stuffings pudding1598 salpicon1723 force-fish1736 rice dressing1886 1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 ii. v. 458 That rosted Manningtre Oxe with the pudding in his belly. View more context for this quotation a1637 B. Jonson Masque of Gypsies 85 in tr. Horace Art of Poetry (1640) The very next dish was a Major of a Towne, With a pudding of maintenance thrust in his belly. 1771 E. Long Trial of Carter's Dog in W. Hone Every-day Bk. (1827) II. 203 His worship had him [sc. a hare] roasted, with a pudding in his belly. 1820 W. Irving Sketch Bk. vi. 71 He pictured to himself every roasting pig running about with a pudding in its belly, and an apple in its mouth. 1973 C. A. Wilson Food & Drink in Brit. iii. 110 A roasted hare was given a pudding in his belly, a forcemeat of grated bread, suet, and herbs or spices. 2. In plural. The bowels, entrails, or guts of a person or animal. archaic or regional in later use. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > digestive organs > intestines > [noun] tharma700 ropeeOE wombeOE entrailc1330 arse-ropesa1382 entraila1382 bowel1393 bellyc1400 manifold?c1400 gutc1460 tripe?a1505 trillibub1519 puddingsa1525 singles1567 fibre1598 intestine1598 gutlet1615 colon1622 garbage1638 pud1706 intestinule1836 a1525 (?1444) Coventry Leet Bk. (1907) I. 208 Quod nullus deinceps lavet lez poodynges ad le condites sub consimili pena. 1559 D. Lindsay Test. Papyngo 1157 in Wks. (1931) I. 90 Tak thare, said he, the puddyngis, for thy parte. ?1573 L. Lloyd Pilgrimage of Princes f. 160 The Foxe..did bite and scratche the yongman so sore, that his puddynges gusshed out of his side. 1612 P. Lowe Art Chyrurg. (ed. 2) iv. xii. 107 They [sc. woundy tumours] are sometimes in the..capacity betwixt the puddings, and periton. 1681 S. Colvil Mock Poem i. 4 When Rhime bursts out from breast inrag'd, Like turds from puddings overcharg'd. 1796 S. Pegge Anonymiana (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. 1824 J. Mactaggart Sc. Gallovidian Encycl. 400 His glory was to rive and kill; Pu' puddings out, and warm blude spill. 1847 J. S. Le Fanu T. O'Brien 255 Dar to touch me,—and I'll let the light into your puddens. 1866 J. E. Brogden Provinc. Words Lincs. (at cited word) He slit open the poor fellow's belly and let out the puddings. 1915 in A. W. Johnston & A. Johnston Old-lore Misc. VIII. i. 44 Sheu gaed an' coopid da puddens i da waal an' gaed dem a blot. 1955 Recorded Interview (Brit. Libr. Sound Archive) (Survey Eng. Dial.: C908) (MS transcript) Track 54 [Notts.] Recordist. What about those things you make the sausage skins out of? Speaker. Puddings. 1977 ‘E. Crispin’ Glimpses of Moon xii. 244 ‘Haw-haw,’ chortled the Rector..clutching with both hands at his stomach as if it contained a great rent from which, if unstemmed, his puddings would come bursting out. 1991 E. Yorks. Village Bk. 204 In 1664 Thomas Burton was fined the sum of one shilling for letting his wife wash puddings in the town beck. †3. In extended use: some kind of artificial light or firework. (See also senses at branch III.) Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > [noun] > types of pudding1527 lucidary1687 glim1699 lowe1793 pilot light1906 laylight1932 glim lamp1942 ambient lighting1947 1527 in T. Sharp Diss. Pageants Coventry (1825) 185 Payd to hym þat bayre þe podyngs for bothe nyghts..vj d. 1529 in R. W. Ingram Rec. Early Eng. Drama: Coventry (1982) 129 Item paid for beryng the Cressettes and the podyng vj d. 1549 in T. Sharp Diss. Pageants Coventry (1825) 185 Payd to þ^e boye þat bere þ^e podyngs j d. II. A sweet or savoury dish made with flour, milk, etc. 4. a. A boiled, steamed, or baked dish made with various sweet or (sometimes) savoury ingredients, added to a mixture typically including milk, eggs, and flour (or other fatty or starchy ingredients such as suet, rice, semolina, etc.), or enclosed within a crust made from such a mixture.The earliest use (connecting this sense with sense 1) apparently implied the boiling of the mixture in a bag or cloth (a pudding-bag or pudding-cloth), as is still sometimes 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 much more varied. In modern use pudding refers almost exclusively to sweet dishes, with the exception of certain named savoury dishes such as those at sense 4b. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > puddings > [noun] > a pudding pudding?1543 duff1828 ?1543 T. Phaer tr. J. Goeurot Regiment of Lyfe xii. f. xlvii Take oyle of roses, cromes of breade, yolkes of egges, and cowes mylke, with a lytle saffron, seeth them togyther a lytle as ye woulde make a puddynge [Fr. les dictes choses cuytes ensemble comme bouillie]. 1589 J. Rider Bibliotheca Scholastica 1162 A pudding made of milke, cheese, and herbs, moretum, herbosum moretum. 1654 E. Johnson Hist. New-Eng. 109 [The Indians] strive for variety after the English manner, boyling Puddings made of beaten corne [etc.]. 1692 T. Tryon Good House-wife (ed. 2) 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. 1733 A. Pope Of Use of Riches 17 One solid dish his week-day meal affords, An added pudding solemniz'd the Lord's. 1734 Ld. Castledurrow Let. 11 Jan. in J. Swift Lett. (1766) III. 265 Your puddings..are the best sweet thing I ever eat. 1747 H. Glasse Art of 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. 1789 W. Maclay Deb. Senate 129 The desert was first apple pies, puddings, etc.; then iced creams, jellies, etc. 1818 W. Kitchiner Cook's Oracle (ed. 2) 577 Puddings are best when mixed over night. 1851 Rep. Juries Great Exhib. (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. 1954 Good Housek. Cookery Bk. (rev. ed.) ii. 284 In this section will be found the recipes for..some miscellaneous baked puddings. 2003 Bristol Evening Post (Nexis) 16 Dec. 34 After my mother had made the puddings they were cooked in the old boiler in the kitchen, with each basin tied up with sheeting. b. With defining word identifying the essential ingredient (see apple, bread, milk, plum pudding, etc.). Also with other modifying word (see Christmas, hasty, pan pudding, etc.); also Sussex pudding, Yorkshire pudding.The more common of these are treated under the first element, or appear as main entries. ΚΠ 1582 S. Batman Vppon Bartholome, De Proprietatibus Rerum 616 Many wayes serueth the use of flowre, for Wafers,..and the Kentish Pudding. 1631 B. Jonson Divell is Asse ii. i, in Wks. II. 115 No youths, disguis'd Like country-wiues, with creame, and marrow-puddings. 1711 W. King et al. Vindic. Sacheverell 75 This is just as proper as I had a good Plumb Pudden to day with a Mixture of Flower and Raisins. 1723 J. Nott Cook's & Confectioner's Dict. sig. K8 (heading) To make a Cowslip Pudding. 1726 Learned 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. 1747 H. Glasse Art of Cookery vii. 69 Stake-Pudding... Let your Stakes be..Beef or Mutton. 1827 M. M. Sherwood Lady of Manor V. xxiv. 222 Their having a tansey pudding at Easter. 1862 Mrs. H. Wood Mrs. Halliburton's Troubles II. iii. 28 A delicious lemon pudding. 1883 Harper's Mag. Apr. 654/1 A Sussex pudding, or great boiled dumpling filled with meat instead of fruit. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xiii. [Nausicaa] 337 Her griddlecakes..and queen Ann's pudding of delightful creaminess had won golden opinions. 1958 Listener 12 June 995/1 Rhubarb crumble pudding. 1983 Hackensack (New Jersey) Rec. 26 Jan. I have always associated the word ‘pudding’ with desserts of a rather homely but satisfying nature: bread-and-butter pudding, rice pudding, Indian pudding. 2003 Philadelphia Inquirer (Nexis) 24 Apr. g2 Bread pudding is a dish of stale bread baked in custard, while tapioca and rice puddings have a milky base but don't resemble smooth nursery puddings. c. As a mass noun: this as a substance or foodstuff. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > puddings > [noun] pudding1622 pud1706 poke pud1802 pud1943 1622 ‘Mourt’ Relation 84 We gave him strong water, and bisket, and butter, and cheese, & pudding. 1670 J. Eachard Grounds Contempt of Clergy 87 Mr. Clark's Lives of Famous Men,..such as Mr. Carter of Norwich, that uses to eat such abundance of Pudden. 1685 S. Wesley Maggots 41 For that can best (as you may quickly prove) Settle the Wit, as Pudding settles Love. 1716 A. Pope Corr. Nov. (1956) I. 374 If you can dine upon a piece of beef, together with a slice of pudding. 1718 M. Prior Poems Several Occasions (new ed.) 195 Mind neither Good nor Bad, nor Right nor Wrong; But Eat your Pudding, Slave; and Hold your Tongue. 1767 T. Bridges Homer Travestie (ed. 2) I. ii. 54 He..with so grum an accent spoke, Those people that the circle stood in, Fancy'd his mouth was full of pudding. 1858 G. H. Lewes Sea-side Stud. iv. i. 271 We used to ‘toss’ the pieman for epicurean slices of pudding. 1876 G. Meredith Beauchamp's Career I. xviii. 279 Our English pudding, a fortuitous concourse of all the sweets in the grocer's shop. 1935 Times 5 Apr. 10/3 Brouard wanted her to make some pudding and a cake for Christmas, but would not allow her the necessaries. 1992 Equinox Aug. 104/3 You're eating pudding for dessert, and he brings you a fork. d. North American. A custard-like dessert typically made of milk, sugar, and a thickening agent, and served cold. Frequently with modifying word specifying the flavour, as in chocolate pudding, vanilla pudding, butterscotch pudding, etc.Pudding is sometimes also used as a filling for pies or pastries. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > milk and cream dishes > [noun] milksop dish1628 pudding1896 dulce de leche1923 milchigs1949 the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > egg dishes > [noun] > custard flawnc1300 charlet?c1390 dariole?a1400 dowset1425 flathonc1430 papina1450 flathec1450 fool1598 custarda1616 burnt cream1723 custard pudding1727 custard pie1729 flummery1747 floating island1771 custard cream1805 charlotte russea1845 crème caramel1846 cup-custard1853 pudding1896 crème renversée1912 leche flan1927 galaktoboureko1950 natillas1969 panna cotta1984 1896 F. M. Farmer Boston Cooking-School Cook Bk. xxv. 345 Pineapple pudding. 2¾ cups scalded milk... ⅓ cup corn-starch. ¼ cup sugar...½ can grated pineapple. 1953 N.Y. Herald Tribune 7 June (This Week section) 20/3 Daddy, that's just what we're having. Sloppy Joe hamburgers, French fries with catsup... For dessert there's chocolate pudding. 1963 Ladies' Home Jrnl. July 92/1 (advt.) Just add to milk, beat a minute, and there you are. They'll never believe it's instant pudding! 2013 R. Rowell Eleanor & Park xviii. 92 Cal was eating a Snack Pack butterscotch pudding. e. Chiefly British. Any sweet dish served as a dessert. Also: the sweet course following the main course (or sometimes the cheese course) of a meal; dessert. Cf. pudding course n. at Compounds 1b.Originally only as a count noun; now also as a mass noun. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > [noun] > dish > sweet dish dessert1789 entremet1824 sweet1832 pudding1934 the world > food and drink > food > meal > course > [noun] > course after main after-mess1489 banquet1523 after-course1580 fruit1587 dessert1600 sweet1832 confectionery1847 afters1909 pudding1934 follows1946 1934 Times 27 Nov. 10/5 These dinners..cost 6 1/2 d. to 7 d. each, and consist of fish and meat, two vegetables, and a pudding. 1940 S. Spender Backward Son 12 At lunch there was fruit salad, his favourite pudding. 1966 H. Davies New London Spy (1967) 31 The Englishman has the absurd notion that it is not manly to eat puddings, or sweets as they are called slightly lower down the social scale. 1974 E. Ayrton Cookery of Eng. x. 430 Our grandfathers, even our fathers, expected a ‘pudding’ at least once a day, sometimes twice. 1979 J. Cooper Class xii. 202 Everything from lemon water ice to jam roly-poly pudding, Caroline would call ‘pudding’. She would never say ‘sweet’ or ‘dessert’. 2006 Daily Mail (Nexis) 2 May 38 The baked apples we are having for pudding are tasty and filling. III. In extended use and figurative. (In early use chiefly from senses at branch I.; later usually from, or understood as, branch II.) †5. figurative. Material reward or advantage, esp. in cake and pudding n. at cake n. and adj. Phrases 4d. Also in alliterative contrast with (empty or non-material) praise. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > reciprocal treatment or return of an action > reward or a reward > [noun] > material reward pudding1556 1556 J. Old Confession of Catholike Olde Belefe sig. D7 Yet for cake & pudding wolde turne again (like wethercockes) which waye so euer the wynde bloweth, as a man will haue them. 1681 S. Colvil Mock Poem i. 93 He turn'd his coat for cake and pudding. 1728 A. Pope Dunciad i. 42 Where in nice balance, truth with gold she weighs, And solid pudding against empty praise. 1750 B. Franklin Poor Richard's Almanack 1257 A man may receive more solid Satisfaction from Pudding, while he is living, than from Praise, after he is dead. 1821 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto III lxxix. 42 He turn'd, preferring pudding to no praise. 1843 T. Carlyle Past & Present i. v. 41 Your own degree of worth and talent, is it..measurable by the..conquest of praise or pudding, it has brought you to? 1910 Times 12 Apr. 11/6 He is not sordid. It is praise he wants more than pudding; ‘the roaring and the wreaths’ rather than the cheque which they imply. 6. Nautical. Any rope padding or binding which prevents chafing or impact damage; spec. †(a) a wreath of plaited cordage placed round the mast and yards of a ship as a support; = dolphin n. 6b(c) (obsolete); (b) a pad to prevent damage to the gunwale or sides of a boat, a fender; (c) the binding on rings, etc., to prevent the chafing of cables or hawsers. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > anchoring equipment > [noun] > binding to save cable from chafe puddinga1625 puddening1769 society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > ropes or chains other than rigging or cable > [noun] > protection against chafing of or by rope plat1620 puddinga1625 servinga1625 service1662 rounding1672 parcelling1750 bolster1769 plait1799 Scotchman1832 society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > other equipment of vessel > [noun] > fender junk1528 puddinga1625 fender1626 fend1658 fend-bolt1678 bongrace1685 skid1743 pudding fender1883 sausage1968 a1625 H. Mainwaring Nomenclator Navalis (Harl. 2301) f. 59^v Puddings, are Roapes nailde rounde to the Yarde-armes..close to the ende..to saue the Robbins from galling a sunder vpon y^e 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. 1707 E. Ward Wooden World Dissected 80 Shew me the Gentleman, crys he, that can knot or splice, or make a Pudding as it should be? 1886 R. 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. 1918 L. E. Ruggles Navy Explained 114 The pudding is that rope effect on the bow of a tug, sailing or motor launch. It is used as a bumper to protect the boats going alongside of docks and ships. 1985 Washington Post (Nexis) 7 June 57 Fathoms and fathoms of first-grade manila hawser..much of which has been woven into a handsome ‘bow pudding’ or fender. †7. A fool or clown; = jack pudding n. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > performance of jester or comedian > [noun] > jester or comedian jugglerc1175 foolc1300 jangler1303 fool sagec1330 ribald1340 ape-ward1362 japer1377 sage fool1377 harlotc1390 disporter?a1475 jocular?a1475 joculatora1500 jester?1518 idiot1526 scoffer1530 sporter1531 dizzardc1540 vice1552 antic1564 bauble-bearer1568 scoggin1579 buffoon1584 pleasant1595 zany1596 baladine1599 clown1600 fiddle1600 mimic1601 ape-carrier1615 mime1616 mime-man1631 merry man1648 tomfool1650 pickle-herring1656 badine1670 puddingc1675 merry-andrew1677 mimical1688 Tom Tram1688 Monaghan1689 pickled herring1711 ethologist1727 court-foola1797 Tom1817 mimer1819 fun-maker1835 funny man1839 mimester1846 comic1857 comedian1860 jokesman1882 comique1886 Joey1896 tummler1938 alternative comedian1981 Andrew- c1675 Duke of Buckingham Satire Follies Age in Wks. (1752) 111 And play the pudding in a May-day farce. a1680 S. Butler Genuine Remains (1759) I. 163 No Pudding shall be suffer'd to be witty, Unless it be in order to raise Pity. †8. Ordnance. A kind of fuse for exploding a mine. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > explosive device > [noun] > land-mine > fuse for mine pudding1691 saucisse1702 sausage1704 saucisson1827 powder hose1832 1691 Treaty betw. Eng. & Denmark in N. Magens Ess. Insurances (1755) II. 634 Under Contraband Goods are understood..Cannons, Muskets,..Granadoes, Puddings, Torches, Carriages for Ordnance. 9. a. coarse slang. The penis. Now only in to pull one's pudding and variants: see pull v. Phrases 13. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > sex organs > male sex organs > [noun] > penis weapona1000 tarsec1000 pintleOE cock?c1335 pillicock?c1335 yard1379 arrowa1382 looma1400 vergea1400 instrumentc1405 fidcocka1475 privya1500 virile member (or yard)?1541 prickc1555 tool1563 pillock1568 penis1578 codpiece1584 needle1592 bauble1593 dildo1597 nag1598 virility1598 ferret1599 rubigo?a1600 Jack1604 mentula1605 virge1608 prependent1610 flute1611 other thing1628 engine1634 manhood1640 cod1650 quillity1653 rammer1653 runnion1655 pego1663 sex1664 propagator1670 membrum virile1672 nervea1680 whore-pipe1684 Roger1689 pudding1693 handle?1731 machine1749 shaft1772 jock1790 poker1811 dickyc1815 Johnny?1833 organ1833 intromittent apparatus1836 root1846 Johnson1863 Peter1870 John Henry1874 dickc1890 dingusc1890 John Thomasc1890 old fellowc1890 Aaron's rod1891 dingle-dangle1893 middle leg1896 mole1896 pisser1896 micky1898 baby-maker1902 old man1902 pecker1902 pizzle1902 willy1905 ding-dong1906 mickey1909 pencil1916 dingbatc1920 plonkerc1920 Johna1922 whangera1922 knob1922 tube1922 ding1926 pee-pee1927 prong1927 pud1927 hose1928 whang1928 dong1930 putz1934 porkc1935 wiener1935 weenie1939 length1949 tadger1949 winkle1951 dinger1953 winky1954 dork1961 virilia1962 rig1964 wee-wee1964 Percy1965 meat tool1966 chopper1967 schlong1967 swipe1967 chode1968 trouser snake1968 ding-a-ling1969 dipstick1970 tonk1970 noonies1972 salami1977 monkey1978 langer1983 wanker1987 1693 T. Urquhart & P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 3rd Bk. Wks. xviii. 148 It is my inter~crural Pudding [Fr. c'est le baston à un bout, qui me pend entre les iambes]. 1719 in T. 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. 1972 R. A. Wilson Playboy's Bk. Forbidden Words 240 Pud, the penis; perhaps from pudding in pull the pudding. 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. 10. Anything of the consistency of a pudding. †a. A precipitate of solid matter that settles out of a solution; spec. (a) Distilling a coagulation of malt; (b) Spinning an oily mixture filtered from a solution used to wash wool. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1731 P. Shaw Three Ess. Artific. Philos. 61 Without the..danger of making what, in the Language of Distillers, is termed a Pudding. 1757 A. Cooper Compl. Distiller i. i. 5 Danger of coagulating the Malt, or what Distillers call, making a Pudding. 1884 W. S. B. McLaren Spinning Woollen & Worsted (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. b. colloquial. Anything of a soft or spongy consistency, esp. wet or boggy ground. ΚΠ 1902 C. J. Cornish Naturalist on Thames 92 The soaking rains have made a pudding, even of the pasture. 1956 Times 31 July 4/1 The gale, too, had helped, and for England it was better to bowl on to a pudding than not to bowl at all. 1977 Times 7 Feb. 7/4 On a pudding of a pitch Wolves were so superior and had so much extra speed they seemed destined for a comfortable victory. 1995 P. Roth Sabbath's Theater 451 The cruiser had driven off, leaving Sabbath ankle-deep in the pudding of the springtime mud. †11. Criminals' slang. Poisoned or drugged food (esp. liver) fed to a dog to disable or kill it. Cf. quot. 1858 at pudding v. 1. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > burglary > [noun] > instruments used by burglars > to kill or drug dogs pudding1827 1827 Times 18 Oct. 2/3 The dog did not recover the effects of the dose, which is termed ‘a pudding’, until two or three days afterwards. 1887 J. W. Horsley Jottings from 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. 1891 Daily 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’. 12. U.S. slang. Something easy to accomplish; a ‘cinch’. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > easiness > [noun] > that which is easy ball play?c1225 child's gamec1380 boys' play1538 walkover1861 picnic1870 pudding1884 cakewalk1886 pie1886 cinch1888 snipa1890 pushover1891 pinch1897 sitter1898 pipe1902 five-finger exercise1903 duck soup1912 pud1917 breeze1928 kid stuff1929 soda1930 piece of cake1936 doddle1937 snack1941 stroll1942 piece of piss1949 waltz1968 1884 C. F. Lummis Let. 20 Sept. in Lett. from Southwest (1989) 10 Beyond Tunnelton there are several hundred acres of watermelon patches, and I had what the kids denominate ‘a pudding’. 1887 G. W. Walling Recoll. N.Y. Chief of Police xix. 262 In thieves' slang it was a ‘pudding’;..the vault, although apparently impregnable, was easy to enter, [etc.]. 1889 C. R. Sweet Below Zero ii. 41 Aint this a puddin. I guess I'll go into the kitchen and make a mash on the cook. 1915 Elyria (Ohio) Evening Telegram 10 Feb. (City ed.) 4/2 It's a cinch. Pooh! Nothing to it. It's a pudding job, a sinecure, a snap. 1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §255/1 Something easy,..pudding. 1974 Guidelines to Volunteer Services (N.Y. State Dept. Correctional Services) 42 Puddin, light action, easy. †13. slang. A pudding-shaped bomb. Cf. plum pudding n. 5. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > ammunition for firearms > [noun] > bullet or shell > shell > other types of shell carcass1684 light ball1729 anchor ball1779 shrapnel1810 hollow shot1862 segment-shell1862 blind-shell1864 ring-shot1868 star shell1876 ring-shell1879 pipsqueak1900 Black Maria1914 coal box1914 crump1914 Jack Johnson1914 Archie1915 Little Willie1915 whizz-bang1915 woolly bear1915 fizzbang1916 five-ninea1918 ashcan1918 cream puff1918 sea-bag1918 pudding1919 G.I. can1929 flechette1961 1919 Athenæum 25 July 664/1 Pudding, i.e. our 60 lb. bomb. 14. slang. An unborn baby, a fetus. to have a pudding in the oven (and variants): to be pregnant. Cf. bun n.² a. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > embryo or fetus > [noun] childOE birtha1325 fruit of the loinsa1340 conceptiona1398 fetusa1398 embryona1400 feture1540 embryo1576 womb-infant1611 Hans-in-kelder1640 geniture1672 shapeling1674 pudding1937 a bun in the oven1951 preborn1980 1937 E. Partridge Dict. Slang 665/1 With a bellyful of marrow-pudding,..pregnant. 1965 J. 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. Phrases P1. British colloquial. not worth a pudding: of little or no worth. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1546 G. Joye Refut. Byshop Winchesters Derke Declar. f. xliiii^v And as for your vayne replicacion of no graunt,..it is not worth a podyng. 1577 H. Rhodes Bk. Nurture (new ed.) sig. D.iij But in the ende his peeuish pryde, makes all not worth a pudding. 1602 N. Breton Wonders Worth Hearing sig. D2^v These youths of the parish, that are so spruse in their apparell, haue little money in their purses, and their verses and their tales, are not worth a pudding for our trade. 1746 J. Swift Misc. XI. 244 Here's Half-pence in plenty, For one you'll have twenty, Tho' Thousands are not worth a Pudden. P2. In proverbial phrase the proof of the pudding is in the eating and variants: the efficacy, quality, etc., of something can only be shown by putting it to its intended use. Hence elliptically, as the proof of the pudding: that which puts something to the test or (in later use) proves a fact or statement.Originally from proof n. 7a ‘test’, but now sometimes understood as proof n. 1a ‘evidence’. ΚΠ 1605 W. Camden Remaines xvii. 319 All the proof of a pudding is in the eating. 1682 N. O. tr. N. Boileau-Despréaux Lutrin iii. Argt. 23 The proof of th' Pudding's seen i' th' eating. 1727 A. Hamilton New Acct. E. Indies I. p. xxix I leave them to my Reader, with the old Proverb to accompany them, that the Proof of the Pudding is in eating it. 1790 W. Windham 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’. 1802 S. T. Coleridge Coll. Lett. (1956) II. 780 I am certainly exceedingly improved in health, spirits, & activity—& as the Proof of the Pudding is in the eating, I hope, to bring some proofs of it with me. 1876 H. James Roderick Hudson xiii. 457 I see no need of expressing it. The proof of the pudding is in the eating! The case is simply this. 1945 C. E. Balleisen Princ. Firearms xi. 123 The proof of a pudding is in the eating, and likewise the proof of an automatic weapon is its ability to repeatedly perform its cycle. 1990 Parenting Feb. 33/2 (advt.) The proof of the pudding is that some of our students break into print even before they finish the course. 2004 New Yorker 16 Feb. 106/1 And the proof of the pudding is a very simple statement that the President keeps repeating: ‘It's better to kill them there than to have them kill us here.’ Compounds C1. a. General attributive, with sense ‘resembling or reminiscent of a pudding, shaped like a pudding’, as pudding boy, pudding leg, pudding shape, etc. (see also pudding face n. at Compounds 2). ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > bodily shape or physique > broad shape or physique > [adjective] stalworthc1175 thicka1250 stubblea1300 quarryc1300 stalworthyc1300 stoura1350 sturdyc1386 buirdlya1400 squarec1430 couragec1440 craskc1440 substantialc1460 ample1485 stalwart1508 puddinga1540 full-bodied1588 robust1666 two-handed1687 swankinga1704 strapping1707 broad-set1708 thick-set1724 throddy?1748 thick-bodied1752 broad-built1771 junky1825 swankie1838 stodgy1854 wide-bodied1854 beefish1882 hunky1911 buff1982 buffed1986 a1540 Alex. (Taym.) 10373 Fatt pudding leggis vnlufely made. 1789Pudding boy [see sense 9b]. 1849 G. Lippard Quaker City (1995) iv. iv. 427 Show him those legs,..apart from the pudding body, and..he would know them on first sight. 1993 R. Warren Stained Glass 55 Fat pudding turds on the grass. 2004 Sunday Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 22 Aug. 16 We sweated up the Tarmac road to Coiregrogain,..with the great pudding shape of Ben Vane filling the skyline in front of us. b. With sense ‘of or relating to a pudding or puddings’. pudding course n. ΚΠ 1871 ‘L. Carroll’ Through Looking-glass viii. 173 I suppose you wouldn't have two pudding-courses in one dinner? 1948 ‘J. Tey’ Franchise Affair iv. 40 The gentle monologue went on, all through the pudding course. 2005 Evening Standard (Nexis) 23 Nov. 53 The discussion remained audible throughout, and reached a logical climax just as the pudding course was being served. pudding-eating n. and adj. ΚΠ 1703 E. Ward London-Spy Compleat xiii. 307 One of those brawny Beeff-and-Pudding-Eating-Janizaries demanded..whither we were going?] 1726 Learned Diss. Dumpling 6 In the Esteem of this Pudding-eating Monarch. 1830 T. Carlyle in C. E. Norton Two Note-bks. Thomas Carlyle (1898) 172 Alas poor England, stupid, purblind, pudding-eating England! 1887 Decatur (Illinois) Daily Republican 12 Jan. 4/6 Pudding eating contests for heavy stakes are the attraction in Seattle just now. 1968 Iowa City Press-Citizen 8 May a6 Housing units will compete for points in obstacle courses, a pudding-eating contest, women's greased-pig chase and other activities. 1991 T. Healy It might have been Jerusalem 19 He joined Phillis in the pudding eating. pudding maker n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > cooking > cook > [noun] > pudding-maker pudding makera1425 pudding-wife1520–40 pudding-wright1598 a1425 Medulla Gram. (Stonyhurst) f. 67^v Tucetarius, a poddynge maker. 1540 J. Palsgrave tr. G. Gnapheus Comedye of Acolastus sig. L iij The pulters, cokes, puddyng makers. 1726 Learned Diss. Dumpling 5 This John Barnes, or Jack-Pudding,..his Fame had reached France, whose King would have given the World to have had our Jack for his Pudding-Maker. 1891 Times 9 Oct. 5/5 Now, that is, in my opinion, a poor sort of pudding-maker; and so we will keep to our own porridge. 2005 Daily Post (Liverpool) (Nexis) 8 Oct. 10 Despite the British reputation as kings and queens of pudding makers, we have forgotten many of the skills that put us on our throne. † pudding manufactory n. Obsolete ΚΠ 1874 L. Carr Judith Gwynne I. iv. 116 If not in the way of your pudding manufactory. 1898 Denton (Maryland) Jrnl. 17 Dec. 3/1 The pudding manufactory in this place, owned by Mrs K. N. Hardcastle, has been rushed with holiday orders for some time. c. With sense ‘used in the preparation, cooking, or eating of pudding’. pudding-book n. ΚΠ 1865 (title) Massey and Son's Comprehensive Pudding Book, containing above one thousand Recipes. 2001 Leicester Mercury (Nexis) 5 Apr. 21 They use a recipe from the WI Pudding Book. It serves four. pudding-cloth n. ΚΠ 1709 T. Hall Queen's Royal Cookery 48 Put your Pudding-cloth in boiling Water, and let it boil a little, then squeeze it out, and spread it all over with Butter. 1845 E. Acton Mod. Cookery xii. 307 The bird..wrapped in a thin pudding-cloth, closely tied at both ends. 1971 Country Life 17 June 1537/2 He tried to do it with oddments of coloured knitting wools on a pudding cloth. 2005 Spectator (Nexis) 17 Dec. 58 How about a cannonball plum pudding, cooked in a cloth? The pudding cloth was a great invention. pudding-crock n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > [noun] > dish in which puddings are made pudding-crock1495 pudding-dish1576 pudding-bowla1584 pudding basin1773 1495 Will of Johanne Geffereys (P.R.O.: PROB. 11/10) f. 114^v Podding crokke. 1937 Times 1 Jan. 15/6 The poor probably had their hair cut at home, their heads encircled by a pudding crock. 1968 News (Frederick, Va.) 11 Apr. b3/2 Willow-ware china, end tables, blue flowered pudding crock, kerosene stove, refrigerator. pudding fork n. ΚΠ 1896 Woman'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. 1914 J. Joyce Dubliners 255 Freddy Malins beat time with his pudding-fork. 1991 Guardian (Nexis) 10 Oct. These entertaining Japanese businessmen in the corporate hospitality boxes tinkled reassuring applause with pudding forks and their champagne glasses. pudding mould n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > [noun] > mould mould1573 farme1623 shape1769 Turk's cap1859 pudding mould1883 timbale mould1895 Bundt1903 timbale1906 1883 Wellsboro (Pa.) Agitator 29 May 4/7 Turn the mixture into a buttered pudding mould and tie a cloth over it. 1902 Daily Chron. 15 Feb. 8/4 Butter a pudding mould, and cover the inside with stoned raisins. 1975 S. Afr. Panorama Jan. 14 Kitchen shelves..held..items such as a candle mould, pudding moulds, [etc.]. 2004 Standard (St Catherines, Ont.) (Nexis) 3 Sept. c12 The breakfast included a sampling of Kraft's other cereals as well as a raffle and free Jello pudding moulds. pudding-pan n. ΚΠ 1592 T. Nashe Pierce Penilesse sig. B1 Dame Niggardize his wife, in a sedge rug kirtle,..an old wiues pudding pan on her head. 1662 R. Mathews Unlearned Alchymist (new ed.) §116. 190 In an old pudding pan, or a frying-pan, keep them always stirring. 1731 in N. W. Alcock People at Home (1993) viii. 147 One warming pan, three tin puding pans. 1829 R. Southey Poet. Wks. 702 When in your throat you feel the long sharp knife, And the blood trickles to the pudding-pan. 1989 Cook's Nov. 54/2 Specially made pudding pans (metal tube pans with tight-fitting lids) have replaced the pudding bag. pudding plate n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > setting table > table utensils > [noun] > table-vessels > dish or plate > other types of dish spice-plate1391 pie plate1573 maple dish1637 cheese platea1665 supper dish1664 copperplate1665 reaming dish1712 paper plate1723 pickle leaf1762 pap-boat1782 supper1787 vegetable dish1799 well-dish1814 ice plate1820 pudding plate1838 tea plate1862 picnic plate1885 strawberry dish1941 1838 R. S. Surtees Jorrocks's Jaunts ii. 32 The impossibility of putting a round of beef upon a pudding plate. 1900 Portsmouth (New Hampsh.) Herald 13 Apr. 4/4 It is said that the starfish will grow as large as a pudding plate where the conditions are favorable. 1958 J. Cannan And be Villain iii. 68 Squeezing out of the dinette with the piled pudding plates. 1970 Canad. Antiques Collector May 8/1 (advt.) Comprising..8 Shaped dishes, 12 Pudding plates, and 18 Dessert plates. 2006 Guardian (Nexis) 17 Jan. 2 He did not stick around longer than he had to, leaving as soon as the pudding plates had been cleared. pudding rice n. ΚΠ 1913 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 4 Aug. 6/5 With soups, soft boiled eggs, meat, custards, plain pudding rice and fruit you should fare very well during this period. 1974 Times 10 Jan. 10/1 Long grain and short or round grain, often called ‘pudding’ rice. 1985 R. Fernandez Malaysian Cookery 26 In some recipes I have used glutinous rice. The grains are short and fat and contain more starch. You can substitute pudding rice. pudding-spoon n. ΚΠ 1873 Catholic World July 502 The making of that ‘stirabout’ was a fine-art,..the motion of the pudding-spoon was as exact as a sonnet. 1944 A. Thirkell Headmistress iv. 73 Giving a final polish to the pudding spoons with a piece of washleather. 2005 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 10 Dec. 4 This historic construction enabled food to be taken off the spoon from the front or the side, functions that are now fulfilled by two separate pieces, the pudding spoon and the soup spoon. C2. † pudding-ale n. Obsolete rare cheap ale. N. E. D. (1909) notes ‘probably "from its being thick like pudding" (Skeat)’. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > ale or beer > ale > [noun] > cheap or thin ale penny alec1400 pudding-alec1400 c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. v. 220 (MED) Peny ale and podyng ale she poured togideres For laboreres and for low folke. pudding basin n. a basin in which puddings are made; (in extended use) a hat, helmet, etc., resembling this; (attributive, of a person's hair or hairstyle) shaped, or apparently shaped, by cutting round the edge of a pudding basin. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > [noun] > dish in which puddings are made pudding-crock1495 pudding-dish1576 pudding-bowla1584 pudding basin1773 the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > hat > round mushroom1843 polo1905 pudding basin1909 society > armed hostility > military equipment > armour > helmet > [noun] > other types of helmet kettle-hat1380 salletc1440 knapscall1498 armet1507 bonnet?a1513 morion1547 burgonet1570 heaume1572 Bourguignonne1578 castle1587 casquet1611 cabasset1622 casquetel1796 knapscapa1802 comb-cap1825 tilting-helmet1846 pickelhaube1853 Waterloo helmet1853 bell-shape1869 schapska1894 pudding basin1925 the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > styles of hair > [noun] > cut or cropped roundinga1582 stumps1584 stubs1607 trim1608 tonsure1650 committee cut1691 rasure1737 crop1795 county crop1839 flat-top1859 prison cropc1863 clip1889 Dartmoor crop1930 razor cut1940 prison haircut1948 scissor cut1948 cut1951 pudding basin1951 short back and sides1965 1773 New-York Gaz. 15 Mar. s231 (advt.) Striped and clouded dishes of divers colours, pudding and wash basons. 1844 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit xxxix. 451 First, she tripped down stairs into the kitchen for the flour, then for the pie-board,..then for a pudding-basin. 1909 Westm. Gaz. 3 June 8/3 A grey straw hat of the inverted pudding-basin type. 1925 E. Fraser & J. Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words 231 Pudding basin, the British steel shrapnel helmet. (From its shape.) 1951 A. Baron Rosie Hogarth i. ii. 19 Each boy's hair close-cropped with a pudding-basin fringe. 1974 Country Life 28 Feb. 456/3 A male customer is looking for..shooting and fishing hats, saucy tweed pudding basins and tweed caps. 1985 Hair Summer 17/2 The Beatles' pudding basin cuts. 2005 Sunday Times (Nexis) 28 Aug. (News Review section) 1 The physical makeover has replaced her pudding-basin haircut with soft layers and highlights. pudding-bowl n. = pudding basin n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > [noun] > dish in which puddings are made pudding-crock1495 pudding-dish1576 pudding-bowla1584 pudding basin1773 a1584 Tom Thumbe 89 in W. C. Hazlitt Remains Early Pop. Poetry Eng. (1864) II. 181 He sate vpon the Pudding-Boule, the candle for to hold. 1706 E. Ward Rambling Fuddle-caps 10 You look like that little Tom Thumb, by my Soul, Just waded from out of the great Pudding-Bowl. 1895 R. Kipling Second Jungle Bk. 177 Bylot's Island stands above the ice like a pudding-bowl wrong side up. 1964 M. Gallant in R. Weaver Canad. Short Stories (1968) 2nd Ser. 95 She was a nice..person, with..pudding-bowl haircut. 1995 Field Mar. 46/2 Roll out two thirds of the dough and line a large pudding bowl with it. pudding bree n. Scottish = pudding broo n.See note at pudding broo n. ΚΠ 1769 Get up & bar the Door in D. Herd Anc. & Mod. Scots Songs 331 Will ye kiss my wife before my een, And scad me wi' pudding bree? pudding broo n. Scottish the water in which a pudding (sense 1a) has been boiled. Sc. National Dict. s.v. records the compounds puddin-bree and puddin-broo as still in use in Orkney, Aberdeenshire, Perthshire, and Kirkcudbright in 1966. ΚΠ 1706 Short Surv. Married Life 9 One may know by your din Skin, you have been Baptiz'd with Pudding Broo. pudding-cake n. a cake which has been cooked by boiling rather than baking. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > cake > [noun] > a cake > other cakes honey appleeOE barley-cake1393 seed cakea1400 cake?a1425 pudding-cake?1553 manchet1562 biscuit cake1593 placent1598 poplin1600 jumbal1615 bread pudding1623 semel1643 wine-cakea1661 Shrewsbury cake1670 curd cake1675 fruitcake1687 clap-bread1691 simnel cake1699 orange-flower cake1718 banana cake1726 sweet-cake1726 torte1748 Naples cake1766 Bath cake1769 gofer1769 yeast-cake1795 nutcake1801 tipsy-cake1806 cruller1808 baba1813 lady's finger1818 coconut cake1824 mint cake1825 sices1825 cup-cake1828 batter-cake1830 buckwheat1830 Dundee seed cake1833 fat-cake1839 babka1846 wonder1848 popover1850 cream-cake1855 sly-cake1855 dripping-cake1857 lard-cake1858 puffet1860 quick cake1865 barnbrack1867 matrimony cake1871 brioche1873 Nelson cake1877 cocoa cake1883 sesame cake1883 marinade1888 mystery1889 oblietjie1890 stuffed monkey1892 Greek bread1893 Battenberg1903 Oswego cake1907 nusstorte1911 dump cake1912 Dobos Torte1915 lekach1918 buckle1935 Florentine1936 hash cake1967 space cake1984 ?1553 Respublica (1952) iii. iii. 22 Whares Rice puddingcake? 1684 Ερωτοπολις 51 They make no more of an Oath, a Vow, or a Protestation, than a Sussex Bumpkin does of a pudding-Cake in a morning for his Breakfast. 1710 P. Lamb Royal Cookery 106 (heading) To make a Pudding-Cake. 1750 W. Ellis Country Housewife's Family Compan. 147 She drew away the wooden Paddle or Skimmer, and left the Pudding-cake to sink or boil longer. 1875 W. D. Parish Dict. Sussex Dial. Pudding-cake, a composition of flour and water boiled; differing from a hard dick in shape only, being flat instead of round. a1992 L. Colwin More Home Cooking (1993) iv. 24 Lemon ice, lemon pound cake, and lemon pudding cake. pudding-cart n. now historical a cart for offal or refuse. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > clearing of refuse matter > refuse disposal > [noun] > refuse truck or cart pudding-cart1562 dust-cart1776 refuse cart1845 garbage truck1874 sanitation truck1958 1562 Lawes of Markette sig. Bi The Poding Carte of the shambelles, shall not go afore the howre of nine in the nyght, nor after the howre of fiue in the mornyng. 1568 W. Turner New Bk. Natures of Wines sig. D.j^v If the maister of the pudding cart..would let the filthines of the butcherie tarie so long there vntill it stank so sore..that..all of the neighbours about were grieuouslye vexed [etc.]. 2002 National Post (Canada) (Nexis) 18 Dec. al3 The ‘pudding cart’ hauled them [sc. entrails] away from slaughter to the ‘pudding pit’ where they were dumped. pudding chain n. Nautical a type of chain used in rigging (see quot. 1948). ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > ropes or chains other than rigging or cable > [noun] > type of chain pudding chain1948 1948 R. 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. 1982 P. Clissold Layton's Dict. Naut. Words (rev. ed.) Pudding Chain, Short link chain especially made for reeving through a block. Used for halyards and sheets before wire rope was introduced. pudding class n. slang rare = pudding club n. ΚΠ 1969 E. 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. pudding club n. slang the state or condition of being pregnant; = club n. 14c. ΚΠ 1890 A. Barrère & C. G. Leland Dict. Slang II. 155/1 Pudding club (popular), a woman in the family way is said to be in the pudding club. 1936 ‘J. Curtis’ Gilt Kid iv. 38 You were put in the pudden club by the squire's son. 1978 L. Davidson Chelsea Murders v. 28 ‘Was she in the pudding club?’..‘Probably. They aren't saying.’ 2005 Daily Star (Nexis) 7 Mar. 11 Other women would let trifling matters like [being] five months in the pudding club, having two left feet or not being able to carry a tune hold them back. pudding-dish n. a dish in which puddings are made or served; (in extended use) something resembling this. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > [noun] > dish in which puddings are made pudding-crock1495 pudding-dish1576 pudding-bowla1584 pudding basin1773 1576 in R. Machin Probate Inventories Chetnole, Leigh & Yetminster (1976) No. 1 In the hawle..eyght platters 2 poddendyshes 3 sawsers 4 candelsticks two salte sellers. 1776 Pennsylvania Ledger 20 Apr. Joseph Stansbury..is selling off..his baking dishes, compotiers, pudding dishes [etc.]. 1829 H. W. Longfellow Jrnl. 25 Jan. in S. Longfellow Life H. W. Longfellow (1886) I. xi. 163 The Devil, dressed like a collier, with smutty face and pudding-dish hat. 1858 R. S. Surtees Ask Mamma xxx. 124 A hot-water pudding-dish. 1907 St. Nicholas July 798/2 The little old dumpling of a woman in the..inverted pudding-dish of a bonnet. 2005 Washington Times (Nexis) 18 June d1 ‘Looks like an upside-down pudding dish, doesn't it, luv?’ the taxi driver said as we drove past the new Wales Millennium Centre. pudding-eater n. a person who eats puddings (in early use sometimes derogatory). ΚΠ 1680 J. Rushworth Hist. Coll.: Second Pt. (1721) II. 1055 Saying, that..Brown was no Gentleman, but descended from Brown the great Pudding-eater in Kent. 1726 Learned Diss. Dumpling 23 Let not Englishmen therefore be asham'd of the Name of Pudding-Eaters. 1807 R. Wilson Jrnl. 7 June in Life Gen. Sir R. Wilson (1862) II. viii. 253 We slept like pudding-eaters although we had not enjoyed any such luxury for many days. 1840 J. H. Frere tr. Aristophanes Acharnians 50 Welcome kindly, My little pudding-eater! What have you brought? 1967 Daily Courier (Connesville, Pa.) 21 Sept. 23/4 A very palatable dessert as easy on the cook as it is on the pudding eaters. 2005 Chicago Tribune (Nexis) 12 May c7 To the Brits, the world's most worshipful of pudding-eaters, the word [pudding] has become generic for ‘dessert’. pudding face n. a face resembling a pudding in shape or colour; a round, fat, or pallid face; (also) a name for a person having such a face. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > types of face > [noun] muskin1530 vizard1568 monkey-face?1589 chitty-face1601 angel face1605 smock-face1605 fish-facea1625 platter face1631 ammunition face1649 horn-facea1668 baby facea1684 crab face1706 hatchet face1707 splatter-face1707 paddock-face1724 pudding face1748 dough face1755 Madonna face1790 company face1798 moon-face1822 pug-facea1845 puss1844 frog-face1872 bun-face1913 bitch face1969 1748 S. Richardson Clarissa IV. xxxvi. 205 Let me see what a mixture of grief and surprize may be beat up together in thy pudden-face. a1806 J. Barry in R. N. Wornum Lect. on Painting (1848) 94 The hatchet or the pudding face. 1849 J. L. Motley Merry-mount I. 5 Robert Bootefish was a short, squat-looking individual of fifty, with a pudding face, in which a pair of twinkling eyes were almost extinguished by his shaggy brows. 1854 R. S. Surtees Handley Cross I. lxii. 451 Pigg then took a comprehensive survey of him, noted his hairy lip, his pudding face, and vacant eye. 1916 ‘Taffrail’ Pincher Martin vii. 116 Orl right, old puddin'-face. Keep yer 'air on! 1950 G. Brenan Face of Spain iv. 84 The Englishman, fresh from the dull hurry of London streets and from their sea of pudding faces. 2006 Weekend Austral. (Nexis) 14 Jan. 34 Who can resist that pudding face of hers, which can register a virtual dictionary of emotions? pudding-faced adj. (of a person) that has a pudding face (see pudding face n.). ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > types of face > [adjective] flatc1400 hardc1400 low-cheeredc1400 large?a1425 ruscledc1440 well-visagedc1440 platter-faced1533 well-faced1534 full-faced1543 fair-faced1553 bright-faceda1560 crab-faced1563 crab-snouted1563 crab-tree-faced1563 long-visaged1584 owlya1586 wainscot-faced1588 flaberkin1592 rough-hewn1593 angel-faced1594 round-faced1594 crab-favoured1596 rugged1596 weasel-faced1596 rough-faced1598 half-faced1600 chitty1601 lenten-faced1604 broad-faced1607 dog-faced1607 weaselled-faced1607 wry-faced1607 maid-faced1610 warp-faced1611 ill-faceda1616 lean-faceda1616 old-faceda1616 moon-faced1619 monkey-faced1620 chitty-face1622 chitty-faceda1627 lean-chapt1629 antic-faced1635 bloat-faced1638 bacon-facea1640 blue-faced1640 hatchet-faced1648 grave1650 lean-jawed1679 smock-faced1684 lean-visaged1686 flaber1687 baby-faced1692 splatter-faced1707 chubby1722 puggy1722 block-faced1751 haggard-looking1756 long-faced1762 haggardly1763 fresh-faced1766 dough-faced1773 pudding-faced1777 baby-featured1780 fat-faced1782 haggard1787 weazen-face1794 keen1798 ferret-like1801 lean-cheeked1812 mulberry-faced1812 open-faced1813 open-countenanced1819 chiselled1821 hatchety1821 misfeatured1822 terse1824 weazen-faced1824 mahogany-faced1825 clock-faced1827 sharp1832 sensual1833 beef-faced1838 weaselly1838 ferret-faced1840 sensuous1843 rat-faced1844 recedent1849 neat-faced1850 cherubimical1854 pinch-faced1859 cherubic1860 frownya1861 receding1866 weak1882 misfeaturing1885 platopic1885 platyopic1885 pro-opic1885 wind-splitting1890 falcon-face1891 blunt-featured1916 bun-faced1927 fish-faced1963 1777 Laughing Philos. 40 You will see a pudding-faced fellow with an acre of face to a mole-hill of hat. 1833 T. Carlyle in Fraser's Mag. July 27/1 Stupid, pudding-faced as he looks and is, there is a vulpine astucity in him,..an oiliness so plausible-looking. 1847 L. Hunt Men, Women, & Bks. I. ii. 23 Four boys going to school, very pudding-faced. 1993 Time 26 July 67/3 Kevin Anderson looks pudding-faced and pudgy. pudding fender n. = sense 6(b). ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > other equipment of vessel > [noun] > fender junk1528 puddinga1625 fender1626 fend1658 fend-bolt1678 bongrace1685 skid1743 pudding fender1883 sausage1968 1883 Man. Seamanship for Boys' Training Ships Royal Navy 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. 1961 F. H. Burgess Dict. Sailing 164 Pudding fender, a fat enclosed bundle of old strands, etc., for use over the side of boats and yachts. 1997 Hobart (Austral.) Mercury (Nexis) 20 Dec. Now toss in an old telescope, a pudding fender made of coir rope..and the scene is set for a truly maritime bonanza. † pudding filler n. Obsolete rare probably: a person who puts the fillings in puddings. N.E.D. (1909) has ‘one who lives to eat, a glutton’, but contextual evidence supports a literal reading. ΚΠ 1568 Gen. Satire in W. T. Ritchie Bannatyne MS (1928) II. 150 Sic pudding fillaris, discending doun frome millaris W^tin this land wes nevir hard nor sene. † pudding fish n. Obsolete rare = pudding-wife n. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > suborder Percoidei > [noun] > member of family Coryphaenidae (dolphin) gilthead1538 dorado1604 dolphin1626 golden-poll1655 goldfish1670 pudding-wife1735 river porpoise1736 river dolphin1781 pudding fish?a1808 mahimahi1905 lampuki1925 ?a1808 Universal Syst. Nat. Hist. IX. 519 The Pudding Fish. Specific character, tail rounded; lateral line composed of linear scales divided into three bifid branches. 1825 W. Hamilton Hand-bk. Terms Arts & Sci. 315/2 Pudding fish, in Ichthyology, the sparus radiatus. pudding gut n. now historical the entrail or skin used in making puddings. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > part or joint of animal > [noun] > pluck, offal, or tripe > intestines used as envelope gut1598 pudding gut1598 1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes A reede that cookes vse to blow the pudding guts before they fill them. 2002 National Post (Canada) (Nexis) 18 Dec. al3 Entrails of an animal were called ‘pudding guts’. pudding-head n. derogatory a stupid person. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupid, foolish, or inadequate person > stupid person, dolt, blockhead > [noun] asseOE sotc1000 beastc1225 long-ear?a1300 stock1303 buzzard1377 mis-feelinga1382 dasarta1400 stonea1400 dasiberd14.. dottlec1400 doddypoll1401 dastardc1440 dotterel1440 dullardc1440 wantwit1449 jobardc1475 nollc1475 assheada1500 mulea1500 dull-pate15.. peak1509 dulbert?a1513 doddy-patec1525 noddypolla1529 hammer-head1532 dull-head?1534 capon1542 dolt1543 blockhead1549 cod's head1549 mome1550 grout-head1551 gander1553 skit-brains?1553 blocka1556 calfa1556 tomfool1565 dunce1567 druggard1569 cobble1570 dummel1570 Essex calf1573 jolthead1573 hardhead1576 beetle-head1577 dor-head1577 groutnoll1578 grosshead1580 thickskin1582 noddyship?1589 jobbernowl1592 beetle-brain1593 Dorbel1593 oatmeal-groat1594 loggerhead1595 block-pate1598 cittern-head1598 noddypoop1598 dorbellist1599 numps1599 dor1601 stump1602 ram-head1605 look-like-a-goose1606 ruff1606 clod1607 turf1607 asinego1609 clot-poll1609 doddiea1611 druggle1611 duncecomb1612 ox-head1613 clod-polla1616 dulman1615 jolterhead1620 bullhead1624 dunderwhelpa1625 dunderhead1630 macaroona1631 clod-patea1635 clota1637 dildo1638 clot-pate1640 stupid1640 clod-head1644 stub1644 simpletonian1652 bottle-head1654 Bœotiana1657 vappe1657 lackwit1668 cudden1673 plant-animal1673 dolt-head1679 cabbage head1682 put1688 a piece of wood1691 ouphe1694 dunderpate1697 numbskull1697 leather-head1699 nocky1699 Tom Cony1699 mopus1700 bluff-head1703 clod skull1707 dunny1709 dowf1722 stupe1722 gamphrel1729 gobbin?1746 duncehead1749 half-wit1755 thick-skull1755 jackass1756 woollen-head1756 numbhead1757 beef-head1775 granny1776 stupid-head1792 stunpolla1794 timber-head1794 wether heada1796 dummy1796 noghead1800 staumrel1802 muttonhead1803 num1807 dummkopf1809 tumphya1813 cod's head and shoulders1820 stoopid1823 thick-head1824 gype1825 stob1825 stookiea1828 woodenhead1831 ning-nong1832 log-head1834 fat-head1835 dunderheadism1836 turnip1837 mudhead1838 donkey1840 stupex1843 cabbage1844 morepork1845 lubber-head1847 slowpoke1847 stupiditarian1850 pudding-head1851 cod's head and shoulders1852 putty head1853 moke1855 mullet-head1855 pothead1855 mug1857 thick1857 boodle1862 meathead1863 missing link1863 half-baked1866 lunk1867 turnip-head1869 rummy1872 pumpkin-head1876 tattie1879 chump1883 dully1883 cretin1884 lunkhead1884 mopstick1886 dumbhead1887 peanut head1891 pie-face1891 doughbakea1895 butt-head1896 pinhead1896 cheesehead1900 nyamps1900 box head1902 bonehead1903 chickenhead1903 thickwit1904 cluck1906 boob1907 John1908 mooch1910 nitwit1910 dikkop1913 goop1914 goofus1916 rumdum1916 bone dome1917 moron1917 oik1917 jabroni1919 dumb-bell1920 knob1920 goon1921 dimwit1922 ivory dome1923 stone jug1923 dingleberry1924 gimp1924 bird brain1926 jughead1926 cloth-head1927 dumb1928 gazook1928 mouldwarp1928 ding-dong1929 stupido1929 mook1930 sparrow-brain1930 knobhead1931 dip1932 drip1932 epsilon1932 bohunkus1933 Nimrod1933 dumbass1934 zombie1936 pea-brain1938 knot-head1940 schlump1941 jarhead1942 Joe Soap1943 knuckle-head1944 nong1944 lame-brain1945 gobshite1946 rock-head1947 potato head1948 jerko1949 turkey1951 momo1953 poop-head1955 a right one1958 bam1959 nong-nong1959 dickhead1960 dumbo1960 Herbert1960 lamer1961 bampot1962 dipshit1963 bamstick1965 doofus1965 dick1966 pillock1967 zipperhead1967 dipstick1968 thickie1968 poephol1969 yo-yo1970 doof1971 cockhead1972 nully1973 thicko1976 wazzock1976 motorhead1979 mouth-breather1979 no-brainer1979 jerkwad1980 woodentop1981 dickwad1983 dough ball1983 dickweed1984 bawheid1985 numpty1985 jerkweed1988 dick-sucker1989 knob-end1989 Muppet1989 dingus1997 dicksack1999 eight ball- 1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick cviii. 524 Pudding-heads should never grant premises. c1865 B. A. Baker Glance at N.Y. i. v. 17 Allow me to propose a speech from our worthy landlord... Louder, old puddin head, louder. 1893 ‘M. Twain’ in Cent. Mag. Dec. 235/2 Perfect jackass—yes, and it ain't going too far to say he's a pudd'nhead. 1952 S. Kauffmann Tightrope xiv. 243 Why, you're not doing this at all badly, pudding head. 1978 P. G. Winslow Coppergold 153 I didn't tell Joss, no matter what that Yorkshire puddenhead thinks. 2004 South Bend (Indiana) Tribune (Nexis) 1 June b8 Thanks for having the patience to deal with hoards [sic] of pudding-heads like me day after day. pudding-headed adj. foolish, stupid. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupidity, dullness of intellect > [adjective] sloweOE stuntc960 dullOE hardOE stuntlyc1000 sotc1050 dillc1175 dulta1225 simplea1325 heavy1340 astonedc1374 sheepishc1380 dull-witteda1387 lourd1390 steerishc1411 ass-likea1425 brainless?a1439 deafc1440 sluggishc1450 short-witted1477 obtuse1509 peakish1519 wearish1519 deaf, or dumb as a beetle1520 doileda1522 gross1526 headlessa1530 stulty1532 ass-headed1533 pot-headed1533 stupid?1541 sheep's head1542 doltish1543 dumpish1545 assish1548 blockish1548 slow-witted1548 blockheaded1549 surd1551 dull-headed1552 hammer-headed1552 skit-brained?1553 buzzardly1561 witless1562 log-headeda1566 assy1566 sottish1566 dastardly1567 stupidious1567 beetle-headed1570 calvish1570 bluntish1578 cod's-headed1578 grout-headed1578 bedaft1579 dull-pated1580 blate1581 buzzard-like1581 long-eared1582 dullard1583 woodena1586 duncical1588 leaden-headed1589 buzzard1592 dorbellical1592 dunstical1592 heavy-headeda1593 shallow-brained1592 blunt-witted1594 mossy1597 Bœotian1598 clay-brained1598 fat1598 fat-witted1598 knotty-pated1598 stupidous1598 wit-lost1599 barren1600 duncifiedc1600 lourdish1600 stockish1600 thick1600 booby1603 leaden-pated1603 partless1603 thin-headed1603 leaden-skulledc1604 blockhead1606 frost-brained1606 ram-headed1608 beef-witted1609 insulse1609 leaden-spirited1609 asininec1610 clumse1611 blockheadly1612 wattle-headed1613 flata1616 logger-headeda1616 puppy-headeda1616 shallow-patedc1616 thick-brained1619 half-headed1621 buzzard-blinda1625 beef-brained1628 toom-headed1629 thick-witted1634 woollen-witted1635 squirrel-headed1637 clod-pated1639 lean-souled1639 muddy-headed1642 leaden-witteda1645 as sad as any mallet1645 under-headed1646 fat-headed1647 half-witted1647 insipid1651 insulsate1652 soft-headed1653 thick-skulleda1657 muddish1658 non-intelligent1659 whey-brained1660 sap-headed1665 timber-headed1666 leather-headeda1668 out of (one's) tree1669 boobily1673 thoughtless1673 lourdly1674 logger1675 unintelligenta1676 Bœotic1678 chicken-brained1678 under-witted1683 loggerhead1684 dunderheaded1692 unintelligible1694 buffle-headed1697 crassicc1700 numbskulled1707 crassous1708 doddy-polled1708 haggis-headed1715 niddy-noddy1722 muzzy1723 pudding-headed1726 sumphish1728 pitcher-souleda1739 duncey1743 hebete1743 chuckheaded1756 dumb1756 duncely1757 imbecile1766 mutton-headed1768 chuckle-headed1770 jobbernowl1770 dowfarta1774 boobyish1778 wittol1780 staumrel1787 opaquec1789 stoopid1791 mud-headed1793 borné1795 muzzy-headed1798 nog-headed1800 thick-headed1801 gypit1804 duncish1805 lightweight1809 numbskull1814 tup-headed1816 chuckle-pate1820 unintellectuala1821 dense1822 ninnyish1822 dunch1825 fozy1825 potato-headed1826 beef-headed1828 donkeyish1831 blockheadish1833 pinheaded1837 squirrel-minded1837 pumpkin-headed1838 tomfoolish1838 dundering1840 chicken-headed1842 like a bump on a log1842 ninny-minded1849 numbheadeda1852 nincompoopish1852 suet-brained1852 dolly1853 mullet-headed1853 sodden1853 fiddle-headed1854 numb1854 bovine1855 logy1859 crass1861 unsmart1861 off his chump1864 wooden-headed1865 stupe1866 lean-minded1867 duffing1869 cretinous1871 doddering1871 thick-head1873 doddling1874 stupido1879 boneheaded1883 woolly-headed1883 leaden-natured1889 suet-headed1890 sam-sodden1891 dopey1896 turnip-headed1898 bonehead1903 wool-witted1905 peanut-headed1906 peanut-brained1907 dilly1909 torpid-minded1909 retardate1912 nitwitted1917 meat-headed1918 mug1922 cloth-headed1925 loopy1925 nitwit1928 lame-brained1929 dead from the neck up1930 simpy1932 nail-headed1936 square-headed1936 dingbats1937 pinhead1939 dim-witted1940 pea-brained1942 clueless1943 lobotomized1943 retarded1949 pointy-headed1950 clottish1952 like a stunned mullet1953 silly (or crazy) as a two-bob watch1954 out to lunch1955 pin-brained1958 dozy1959 eejity1964 out of one's tiny mind1965 doofus1967 twitty1967 twittish1969 twatty1975 twattish1976 blur1977 dof1979 goofus1981 dickheaded1991 dickish1991 numpty1992 cockish1996 1726 Learned 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. 1867 C. Dickens Let. 16 Dec. (1999) XI. 513 Surely it is time that the pudding-headed Dolby retired into the native gloom from which he has emerged. 1983 R. Lederer in Verbatim IX. iii. 23/2 The half-baked, pudding-headed vegetables, meatheads who drive us nuts with their slow-as-molasses pea brains. pudding heart n. rare a soft or tender heart; (also) a coward. ΚΠ 1834 H. Taylor Philip van Artevelde 2nd Pt. iii. i. 70 Go, pudding-heart! Take thy huge offal and white liver hence. 2004 Daily Variety (Nexis) 27 Feb. 8 We want at least a communicated profundity of feeling, or a starker contrast between Tevye's tough exterior and his soft pudding heart. † pudding house n. (a) colloquial the stomach or belly (obsolete) (b) a place where offal or pudding is kept, prepared, or sold (obsolete (historical in later use)). ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > digestive organs > stomach or belly > [noun] maweOE wombOE codc1275 cropc1325 gut1362 stomachc1374 bellyc1375 pauncha1393 flanka1398 heartc1400 kitchen?a1500 kytec1540 micklewame1566 craw1574 ventricle1574 pudding house1583 buck1607 wame1611 ventricule1677 ventriculus1710 victualling-office1751 breadbasket1753 haggis1757 haggis bagc1775 baggie1786 pechan1786 manyplies1787 middle piece1817 inner man1856 inner woman1857 tum-tum1864 tum1867 tummy1867 keg1887 stummick1888 kishke1902 shit-bag1902 Little Mary1903 puku1917 Maconochie1919 1583 B. Melbancke Philotimus (new ed.) sig. R4 Seruing a Lady in Italy as a Tom drudge of the pudding house, or a groome to her close stoole. 1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden sig. B4^v What a commotion there was in his entrayles or pudding-house for want of food. 1609 S. Rowlands Knave of Clubbes 24 His pudding-house at length began to swell. 1620 Westward for Smelts (1848) 5 The pudding-house at Brooke's wharfe. 1760 Deloney's Delightful Hist. Gentle-craft (new ed.) 106 My faithful Friends, and Conduit-Companions, Treasures of the Water-Tankard, and main Pillars of the Pudding-House. 1905 News (Frederick, Maryland) 11 Feb. They..had a house or chamber in which to work near the kitchen called the pudding house. pudding meat n. the meat stuffing for a pudding (sense 1). ΚΠ 1653 J. Ford Queen sig. B3 Good boy i faith, by this hand a' speaks just as I would do, for all that he is so near being made puddings meat.] 1707 E. Ward Barbacue Feast 6 They were commanded by the chief Rulers of the Feast, to be pinn'd up in a sty, and for the little Remainder of their Lives, to be fed with nothing but Pudding-Meat, that is, Blood, Grits and sweet Herbs. 1777 J. Brand Observ. Pop. Antiq. App. 355 A Kind of Pudding-Meat, consisting of Blood, Suet, Groats, etc. 1869 Atlantic Q. Oct. 483 Some make pawn-haus from the liquor in which the pudding meat was boiled, adding thereto corn-meal. 1924 Coshocton (Ohio) Tribune 4 Jan. 5/1 Our Baltic Sausage, Spareribs, Back Bones and Pudding meat went like hot cakes. 1976 Frederick (Maryland) Post 16 Mar. (Bicentennial Suppl.) 7/3 After being ground similar to the size of hamburger parts, this pudding meat was again cooked in the lard kettle. 1993 Chicago Sun-Times (Nexis) 5 Aug. (Food section) 2 Even after many years away from the farm in Virginia, my mouth waters at the memory of pudding meat, panhorse and scrapple. † pudding-pack n. Obsolete rare = pudding tobacco n. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > [noun] > tobacco in a roll, cake, or stick cane-tobacco1600 pudding tobacco1601 roll1602 tobacco roll1602 canea1612 pudding-packa1618 prick1666 pigtail1681 nova1688 prick tobacco1688 plug1729 plug tobacco1788 twist1791 carrot1808 cavendish1839 nail-rod1848 hard1865 twist tobacco1894 a1618 J. Sylvester Tobacco Battered in tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Diuine Weekes & Wks. (1621) 1145 Impose so deep a Taxe On All these Ball, Leafe, Cane, and Pudding Packs. pudding pipe n. (more fully pudding-pipe tree) the golden shower, Cassia fistula (family Fabaceae ( Leguminosae)), which has long pipe-like seed pods; cf. purging cassia n. at purging adj. Compounds. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular medicinal plants or parts > medicinal trees or shrubs > [noun] > non-British medicinal trees or shrubs > pudding-pipe tree fistulaa1382 cassia fistulaa1398 pudding-pipe tree1597 cassia-stick tree1756 golden shower1882 1597 J. Gerard Herball iii. 1242 Cassia fistula..may also be Englished Pudding Pipe, bicause the cod or pipe is like a pudding. 1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. App. 324 Pudding Pipe-tree, Cassia. 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. I. 233/1 C. fistula, called the Pudding Pipe Tree from its peculiar pods, is a very handsome tree. 1938 Charleroi (Pa.) Mail 25 July 5/2 ‘Cassia pulp’, used as a medicine, is obtained from the pods of Cassia Fistula, or pudding pipe tree, a native of Africa. 1997 D. J. Mabberley Plant-bk. (ed. 2) 132 C. fistula L. (pudding-pipe tree, purging cassia, Indian laburnum, golden shower, trop. As.). pudding pit n. now historical a pit into which offal was formerly thrown; also figurative. ΚΠ 1593 G. Harvey Pierces Supererogation 63 The person, that vnder his hand-writing hath stiled him..the bag-pudding of fooles, & the very pudding-pittes of the wise, or honest. a1884 M. Cash in J. W. Cross George Eliot's Life (1885) I. iii. 113 A [poor] district to which..the euphonious name of the Pudding-Pits had been given. 2002 National Post (Canada) (Nexis) 18 Dec. al3 The ‘pudding cart’ hauled them [sc. entrails] away from slaughter to the ‘pudding pit’ where they were dumped. pudding-poke n. English regional (now rare) (a) = pudding-bag n. 1; (b) East Anglian the long-tailed tit, Aegithalos caudatus, cf. poke pudding n. 3, pudding-bag n. 2 (see also quot. 1999). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > arboreal families > [noun] > family Aegithalidae > genus Aegithalos (long-tailed titmouse) poke bag1663 pudding-poke1684 bottle tom1802 bottle tit1817 bumbarrel1817 feather-poke1831 mufflin1837 jack-in-a-bottle1838 pettichaps1851 poke pudding1851 Long Tom1853 muffler1868 hedge-jug1881 ragamuffin1885 the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > cooking vessel or pot > [noun] > pudding-bag pudding-baga1600 pudding-poke1684 1684 G. Meriton Praise Yorks. Ale l. 179 Our great whean-cat hes eaten'th pudding-poke. 1779 E. Clark Misc. Poems 51 She stuff'd them in the pudding-poke, And popp'd them in the porridge pot. 1823 E. Moor Suffolk Words 294 We hear constantly of the ‘Pudden poke's nest’... The Pudden-poke lays 15 or 20 beautiful eggs, nearly resembling pearls. 1907 R. Davey Sultan & his Subj. (new ed.) vi. 198 Upon their heads they wore a kind of head-dress of cloth, like an immense pudding-poke standing on end. 1999 R. Malster Mardler's Compan. 59/1 Puddenpoke, oven tit or ovenbuilder, the willow tit, from its beautifully constructed nest, or the long-tailed tit. These names are also used for the chiffchaff. pudding race n. figurative puddings considered as a race or clan.In later use with allusion to quot. 1786. ΚΠ 1786 R. Burns To Haggis in Poems & Songs (1968) I. 310 Fair fa' your honest, sonsie face, Great Chieftan o' the Puddin-race! 1870 D. Macrae Americans at Home II. 341 With pipers blowing in front, with pipers bringing up the rear, in came the ‘king o' pudding race’, borne aloft by the excited waiter. 2004 Sunday Times 5 Sept. (Features section) 3 She was fed haggis and black pudding by the Scottish side of the family and still loves these monarchs of the pudding race. pudding-shaped adj. shaped like a pudding; (colloquial) wrong, awry (cf. pear-shaped adj. 3). ΚΠ 1853 E. S. Dixon in Househ. Words 6 Aug. 549/1 Those pudding-shaped domes. 1859 All Year Round 24 Sept. 511/1 The same melon-plant may produce..monsters half melon-shaped, half pudding-shaped. 1976 S. Wales Echo 23 Nov. A pudding-shaped mound in Energlyn near Caerphilly. 2004 Daily Star (Nexis) 18 Dec. 15 Cambridge's season is going distinctly pudding-shaped following the dismissal of French misfit Herve Renard. pudding-sleeve n. now rare a large bulging sleeve drawn in at the wrist or above (usually attributive). ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > parts of clothing > [noun] > covering spec parts of body > arm > types of poke1402 foresleeve1538 long sleeve1538 lumbard1542 puller out1543 maunch1550 hand sleeve1585 French sleeve1592 poke sleeve1592 puff1601 trunk sleeve1603 stock-sleeve1611 hoop-sleeve1614 puff sleevec1632 short sleeve1639 hanging sleeve1659 engageants1690 jockey-sleeve1692 pudding-sleeve1704 Amadis1814 gigot1824 leg of mutton1824 bishop sleeve1829 mutton-leg sleeve1830 balloon sleeve1837 gigot-sleeve1837 bag-sleeve1844 pagoda sleeve1850 mameluke sleeve1853 angel sleeve1859 elbow-sleeve1875 sling-sleeve1888 sleevelet1889 pagoda1890 bell-sleeve1892 kimono sleeve1919–20 dolman1934 the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [adjective] > having specific parts > sleeves > types of long sleeve1538 long-sleeved1578 maunched1688 pudding-sleeve1704 gun-sleeved1782 short-sleeved1839 short sleeve1931 1704 T. Baker Act at Oxf. i. i. 4 To ride fifty Miles to see a parcel of antick Professors in slop Shoes, and Pudding-sleeve gowns. 1708 J. Swift Baucis & Philemon 120 He sees..About each arm a pudding-sleeve. a1814 C. Dibdin Coll. Songs (1814) II. 119 The counsellor say he his client relieve, While he laugh toder side in his pudding-sleeve. 1910 ‘Member of Aristocracy’ Manners & Rules of Good Soc. xi. 85 Archbishops, bishops, and clergy should appear in full canonicals, that is black silk full- or pudding-sleeve gowns, cassock and sash bands. 1960 C. W. Cunnington et al. Dict. Eng. Costume 172/1 Pudding sleeve,..a large loose sleeve, especially of a clergy~man's gown. † pudding-sleeved adj. Obsolete rare (of a gown) that has pudding-sleeves. ΚΠ 1901 Times 9 Mar. 15/6 When mine was subscribed for in 1875 I preferred being painted in a surplice rather than the pudding-sleeved black gown of my few unepiscopated predecessors. pudding-stick n. a stick or paddle used to stir a pudding mixture. ΚΠ 1728 E. Smith Compl. Housewife (ed. 2) 137 Mix it with a broad Pudding-stick, not with your hands. 1852 H. B. 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. 1878 B. F. Taylor Between Gates 109 You can get an idea of it by fancying a paddle or a pudding~stick turning into a fiddle. 1957 Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 101 287 Well she looked it over and she said it looked just like mother's pudding stick. † pudding tobacco n. Obsolete compressed tobacco made in rolls resembling a pudding or sausage. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > [noun] > tobacco in a roll, cake, or stick cane-tobacco1600 pudding tobacco1601 roll1602 tobacco roll1602 canea1612 pudding-packa1618 prick1666 pigtail1681 nova1688 prick tobacco1688 plug1729 plug tobacco1788 twist1791 carrot1808 cavendish1839 nail-rod1848 hard1865 twist tobacco1894 1601 B. Jonson Fountaine of Selfe-love ii. ii. sig. D3 He..neuer..praies, but for a Pipe of pudding Tabaco . View more context for this quotation 1612 B. Rich Trve & Kinde Excvse f. 12^v That doth thinke her selfe to be in as good request as Pudding Tobacco. 1614 Ld. Sackville's Papers respecting Virginia i, in Amer. Hist. Rev. (1922) 27 496 In le Elizabeth Idem, Sir Thomas etc. iiii barells containing i^clxx pound pudding tobacco. † pudding turnip n. Obsolete rare a variety of turnip (not identified). ΚΠ 1795 Lett. & Papers Agric. (Bath & West of Eng. Soc.) VII. 86 If I cannot procure crops of it, which will chiefly rise above the surface of the soil, like the long pudding turnip, I shall greatly abate in my present hopes of it. pudding way n. rare = pudding club n. ΚΠ 1963 ‘J. Prescot’ Case for Hearing vi. 94 Getting a girl in the pudding way isn't a crime. † pudding-wright n. Obsolete a person who makes puddings. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > cooking > cook > [noun] > pudding-maker pudding makera1425 pudding-wife1520–40 pudding-wright1598 1598 R. Bernard tr. Terence Eunuch ii. ii, in Terence in Eng. 127 Cookes, puddingwrights [printed buddingwrights]. 1636 in A. M. Munro Rec. Old Aberdeen (1899) I. 349 Elspet Gray, puddinwricht. Derivatives ˈpuddingish adj. like or of the nature of a pudding, puddingy. ΚΠ 1832 Monthly Rev. June 257 The eldest was a clumsy, puddingish girl, with a complexion that ought to have been fair, but was muddy. 1866 R. Buchanan in Academy 15 June (1901) 506/1 Right stately sat Arnold..With puddingish England serenely disgusted. 1966 W. Percy Last Gentleman iv. viii. 189 He reminded the engineer of the graduates of Horace Mann, their faces quick and puddingish and acned. 2005 Observer (Nexis) 10 Apr. (Food Monthly Suppl.) 64 Back to the drawing board I think—puddingish pastry and herby, greenish, milky sauce. ˈpuddingless adj. ΚΠ 1831 W. P. Scargill Atherton I. i. 2 To abstain from spending an hour or two there in the evening would have appeared to them as great a violation of propriety as sitting down to cold meat and a puddingless table on Sunday. 1855 Househ. Words 12 168 We went puddingless that Christmas-day. 1966 Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 6 Dec. 24/4 Both places were a hundred miles from those two lonely puddingless guards. 2003 Times Educ. Suppl. (Nexis) 24 Jan. 27 He was disappointed when the waitress didn't offer it as an option and resigned himself to going puddingless. ˈpudding-like adj. ΚΠ 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Cartouche, also, a peece of pastboord or thick paper stuffed (in a round or pudding like forme) with bullets, etc. 1765 H. Jackson Ess. Brit. Isinglass ix Others..insinuate, that the whole Secret consists in stewing down Tripe, and (Pudding-like) all the unsaleable refuse Isinglass of the Shops. 1814 M. Capel Let. 7 June (1955) i. 36 I..think Alexander not the least handsome—horridly Pink & Puddinglike. 1951 Sport 16–22 Mar. 5/1 The ball we used at the outset became soft—not burst or anything like that, but just a little ‘pudding-like’. 2014 L. Diamond & A. Hermanson New Gluten-Free Recipes ii. 66 Adding potato starch helps to thicken and add a pudding-like texture to baked goods. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online June 2022). puddingv. Brit. /ˈpʊdɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈpʊdɪŋ/ Forms: see pudding n. Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: pudding n. Etymology: < pudding n. †1. transitive. To supply or treat with pudding or a pudding; to apply a pudding-like substance to. Obsolete.With quot. 1858 cf. pudding n. 11. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > burglary > burgle [verb (transitive)] > drug a dog pudding1858 ?a1600 I. T. Grim the Collier ii. i Now I talk of a Pudding,..I am old dog at it. Come Ione, let's away, I'le pudding you. 1851 M. A. Denham Folk Lore North of Eng. 25 [Near Leeds] the ancient offering of an egg, a handful of salt, and a bunch of matches, to a young child, on its first visit to the house of a neighbour..is termed ‘puddening’, and the child is said to be ‘puddened’. 1858 E. J. Lewis in W. Youatt Dog (N.Y. ed.) 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’. 1882 E. A. Freeman in W. R. W. Stephens Life & Lett. E. A. Freeman (1895) II. 264 So Mrs. Macmillan and her doctor..bathed me and dosed me and puddinged [i.e. poulticed] me behind and before. 2. transitive. Nautical. To wrap with rope, tow, etc., as a protection against chafing or impact (cf. pudding n. 6). ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > other nautical operations > [verb (transitive)] > wrap (to prevent chafing) keckle1627 worm1706 pudding1711 graftc1860 1711 W. Sutherland Ship-builders Assistant 162 To Pudden the Yards, to nail Pieces of old Rope round them, to preserve them from galling. 1788 R. Haswell in F. W. Howay Voy. Columbia (1941) 27 Our people had been Employed..rounding and worming our cables puddinging our anchors and stocking the spare ones. 1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple I. xiv. 203 He was afraid to pudding an anchor on the forecastle. 1850 H. Melville White-jacket xli. 199 Nautical phrases, such as..‘puddinging the dolphin’. 1886 R. C. Leslie Sea-painter's Log 142 ‘Puddening the anchors’,..or ‘clapping a service on the cable’. 1980 P. O'Brian Surgeon's Mate xi. 370 But this time I shall pudden the bight with Jagiello's shirt, to prevent it from chafing. Derivatives ˈpuddinged adj. ΚΠ 1765 London Mag. July 361 His eyes flashed fire from every corner, which increased every time he cast them down on his gravified waistcoat and puddened breeches. 1914 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 2 Mar. 7/2 We've tee shot soup and mid iron roast And salad dressed with pitch, And puddinged putts. 1984 G. Vanderhaeghe My Present Age (1986) xii. 178 A rocker in his forties with the hairless, scrawny body of a British punk raised on sugary, creamy tea, Eccles cakes, lemon curd, jam tarts, custards... The pasty, puddinged look of English decadence. 2000 Santa Fe New Mexican (Nexis) 15 Dec. p44 Chocolate cake with a warm puddinged center was not quite up to the rarefied realms of this meal. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1287v.?a1600
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