pudding : Idioms & Phrases

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Bird's-nest pudding

  • a pudding containing apples whose cores have been replaces by sugar.
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black pudding

  • noun a black sausage containing pig's blood and other ingredients
    blood sausage; black pudding.
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Black" pud"ding
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  1. A kind of sausage made of blood, suet, etc., thickened with meal.
    And fat black puddings, -- proper food, For warriors that delight in blood. Hudibras.
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Blood pudding

  • noun a black sausage containing pig's blood and other ingredients
    blood sausage; black pudding.
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  • a pudding made of blood and other materials.
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carrot pudding

  • noun pudding made with grated carrots
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chocolate pudding

  • noun sweet chocolate flavored custard-like pudding usually thickened with flour rather than eggs
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christmas pudding

  • noun a rich steamed or boiled pudding that resembles cake
    Christmas pudding.
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corn pudding

  • noun pudding made of corn and cream and egg
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frozen pudding

  • noun a chilled dessert consisting of a mixture of custard and nuts and (sometimes) liquor
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hasty pudding

  • noun sweetened porridge made of tapioca or flour or oatmeal cooked quickly in milk or water
  • noun cornmeal mush served with sweetening (maple syrup or brown sugar)
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Has"ty pud"ding
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  1. A thick batter pudding made of Indian meal stirred into boiling water; mush. U. S.
  2. A batter or pudding made of flour or oatmeal, stirred into boiling water or milk. Eng.
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Indian pudding

  • a pudding of which the chief ingredients are Indian meal, milk, and molasses.
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liver pudding

  • noun sausage containing ground liver
    liver sausage; liverwurst.
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nesselrode pudding

  • noun a rich frozen pudding made of chopped chestnuts and maraschino cherries and candied fruits and liqueur or rum
    Nesselrode.
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pease pudding

  • noun a pudding made with strained split peas mixed with egg
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plum pudding

  • noun a rich steamed or boiled pudding that resembles cake
    Christmas pudding.
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pock-pudding

Pock"-pud`ding noun
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  1. A bag pudding; a name of reproach or ridicule formerly applied by the Scotch to the English.
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pudding berry

  • noun creeping perennial herb distinguished by red berries and clustered leaf whorls at the tips of shoots; Greenland to Alaska
    bunchberry; Cornus canadensis; dwarf cornel; crackerberry.
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pudding face

  • noun a large fat human face
    pudding face.
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Pudding grass

  • (Bot.), the true pennyroyal (Mentha Pulegium), formerly used to flavor stuffing for roast meat. Dr. Prior.
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pudding head

  • noun a person who is not very bright
    pillock; dullard; poor fish; stupe; stupid; pudden-head; stupid person; dolt.
    • The economy, stupid!
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Pudding pie

  • a pudding with meat baked in it. Taylor (1630).
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Pudding pipe

  • (Bot.), the long, cylindrical pod of the leguminous tree Cassia Fistula. The seeds are separately imbedded in a sweetish pulp. See Cassia.
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pudding pipe tree

  • noun deciduous or semi-evergreen tree having scented sepia to yellow flowers in drooping racemes and pods whose pulp is used medicinally; tropical Asia and Central and South America and Australia
    drumstick tree; Cassia fistula; purging cassia; canafistula; canafistola; golden shower tree.
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Pudding sleeve

  • a full sleeve like that of the English clerical gown. Swift.
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Pudding stone

  • noun a composite rock made up of particles of varying size
    conglomerate.
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  • . (Min.) See Conglomerate, n., 2.
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Pudding time

  • . (a) The time of dinner, pudding being formerly the dish first eaten . Obs. Johnson. (b) The nick of time; critical time. Obs.
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pudding-face

  • noun a large fat human face
    pudding face.
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pudding-headed

Pud"ding-head`ed adjective
Definitions
  1. Stupid. Colloq.
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pudding-wife

  • noun bluish and bronze wrasse; found from Florida keys to Brazil
    Halicoeres radiatus; puddingwife.
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roly-poly pudding

  • noun pudding made of suet pastry spread with jam or fruit and rolled up and baked or steamed
    roly-poly.
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sea pudding

Sea" pud"ding
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  1. (Zoöl.) Any large holothurian. Prov. Eng.
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steamed pudding

  • noun a pudding cooked by steaming
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suet pudding

  • noun a sweet or savory pudding made with suet and steamed or boiled
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tapioca pudding

  • noun sweet pudding thickened with tapioca
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vanilla pudding

  • noun sweet vanilla flavored custard-like pudding usually thickened with flour rather than eggs
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Yorkshire pudding

  • noun light puffy bread made of a puff batter and traditionally baked in the pan with roast beef
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  • a batter pudding baked under meat.
Webster 1913