Puddings
[pudiŋz]
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of puddings, denotes small returns from large investments, if you only see it. To eat it, is proof that your affairs will be disappointing. For a young woman to cook, or otherwise prepare a pudding, denotes that her lover will be sensual and worldly minded, and if she marries him, she will see her love and fortune vanish.
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Examples
- I can make little puddings too; and I know how to buy neck of mutton, and tea, and sugar, and butter, and a good many housekeeping things. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Remember, black-puddings are good for nothing cold. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Marrow puddings, says Mr. Smallweed instantly. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Three marrow puddings being produced, Mr. Jobling adds in a pleasant humour that he is coming of age fast. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Before each hut a woman presided over a boiling stew, while little cakes of plantain, and cassava puddings were to be seen on every hand. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Honest Jemima had all the bills, and the washing, and the mending, and the puddings, and the plate and crockery, and the servants to superintend. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
Edited by Ben