Pudding
['pʊdɪŋ]
Definition
(noun.) any of various soft sweet desserts thickened usually with flour and baked or boiled or steamed.
(noun.) (British) the dessert course of a meal (`pud' is used informally).
(noun.) any of various soft thick unsweetened baked dishes; 'corn pudding'.
Checked by Dolores--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A species of food of a soft or moderately hard consistence, variously made, but often a compound of flour or meal, with milk and eggs, etc.
(n.) Anything resembling, or of the softness and consistency of, pudding.
(n.) An intestine; especially, an intestine stuffed with meat, etc.; a sausage.
(n.) Any food or victuals.
(n.) Same as Puddening.
Typist: Martha
Definition
n. a skin or gut filled with seasoned minced meat &c. a sausage: a soft kind of food made of flour milk eggs &c.: a piece of good fortune.—adjs. Pudd′ing-faced having a fat round smooth face; Pudd′ing-head′ed (coll.) stupid.—ns. Pudd′ing-pie a pudding with meat baked in it; Pudd′ing-sleeve a large loose sleeve; Pudd′ing-stone a conglomerate rock made up of rounded pebbles; Pudd′ing-time dinner-time: (obs.) critical time.
Editor: Nita
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.
Typed by Claire
Examples
- Spiders and rice pudding. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Where's the beef and vegetables I sent home, and the pudding you promised? Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- I heard that the table beer was a robbery of parents, and the pudding an imposition. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Next instant, with a loud shout of triumph he held up one splinter, in which a round, dark object was fixed like a plum in a pudding. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- And Mr Sloppy, whenever you come to my house, be sure you never go away without having had a good dinner of meat, beer, vegetables, and pudding. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- You will not mind running to South Audley-street for a pound of black pudding? Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- We will have roast pheasants and porter, plum-pudding and French wine. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- They'll make you sick, says Mamma to the young person who offers his services in the kitchen with unfailing regularity on plum-pudding day. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- It was to this effect: The black porker's killed--weighed x stone--salted the sides--pig's pudding and leg of pork for dinner. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- It was Christmas Eve, and I had to stir the pudding for next day, with a copper-stick, from seven to eight by the Dutch clock. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- There's roast mutton and suet-pudding waiting for you! Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Why, pudding, HE was four! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- He had a shilling in his pocket; and he dined sumptuously, he tells me, on a black-pudding, an eel-pie, and a bottle of ginger-beer. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Readers, can you conceive anything half so monstrous, half so ruinous to black-pudding men, so destructive to the rising generation? Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- A handsome mince-pie had been made yesterday morning (which accounted for the mincemeat not being missed), and the pudding was already on the boil. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- 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.
Typist: Nelly