单词 | pudding-bag |
释义 | pudding-bagn. 1. A bag or mould in which a pudding is boiled. Also figurative and in extended use: anything reminiscent of this in form or function. ΘΚΠ 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 a1600 T. Deloney Pleasant Hist. Iohn Winchcomb (1619) iv. sig. Giij The other maide..with the perfume in the pudding-bagge, flapt him about the face. 1626 R. Nares Gloss. (Halliw.) [A piece of Sail-cloth] about half a yard long, of the breadth of a pudding-bag. 1682 in E. F. Rimbault Little Bk. Songs & Ballads (1851) 168 Lads and lasses, With pudding-bag arses. 1713 R. Steele Englishman No. 40. 262 From the purple Bishop and his horned Mitre to the bare-legged Capuchin with his picked Pudding-bag. 1723 New-Eng. Courant 16 Sept. 1/2 She knows..who makes Broth of Salt Pork and a Pudding Bag. 1795 ‘P. Pindar’ Pindariana 199 Turning, like pudding-bags, men inside out. 1858 G. Meredith Let. 4 Jan. (1970) I. 32 It is a pudding-bag..a quiescent receptacle for Roast Beef, Punch, and mince Pies. 1881 A. J. Duffield tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote II. 538 The house of this lady is in a pudding-bag without any opening at the bottom. 1885 D. C. Murray Rainbow Gold III. vi. i. 168 It's just a Pudding Bag Street that leads to nowhere. 1939 F. Thompson Lark Rise 238 They..yelled: Old Hardwick skags! Come..to pick up rags To mend their mothers' pudding-bags. 1943 W. W. Gill in Notes & Queries 9 Oct. 232/1 Pudding-bag, blind alley. 1961 F. H. Burgess Dict. Sailing 164 Pudding bag, a stocking or sleeve, used as a weather vane. 1989 Cook's Nov. 54/1 Steaming allows you to replace the cumbersome pudding bag with almost any mold that can be covered tightly. 2. English regional (midlands and East Anglian). The long-tailed tit, Aegithalos caudatus. Cf. pudding-poke n. at pudding n. Compounds 2. Now rare. ΚΠ 1809 T. Batchelor Orthoëpical Anal. Dial. Bedfordshire v, in Orthoëpical Anal. Eng. Lang. 140 Pudding bag, a bird of the pea-eater kind, so called from its nest being in the form of a long pudding-bag, with a hole in the middle. 1885 C. Swainson Provinc. Names Brit. Birds 32 The penduline form of the nest [has] obtained for the bird the names of..Poke pudding or Poke bag... Pudding bag (Norfolk). This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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