| 单词 | pudding-eater |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspudding-eater 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’. < as lemmas |
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