Pock-pudding, subs. phr. (old Scots').—A bag-pudding: hence, by force of metaphor, a glutton: especially an Englishman: whose appetite the Scotchman affected to despise, even as he hated and envied him for its manifold opportunities.
1730. BURT, Letters, i. 13, 138. 'Tis from this notion of the people, that my countrymen not only here, but all over Scotland, are dignified with the title of Poke-pudding, which, according to the sense of the word among the natives, signifies a glutton.
. . . . Herd, Scot. Songs (1776), i. 118. They'll fright the fuds of the Pock-puds, For mony a buttock bare's coming.
Pocky. See Pox.
Pod, subs. (colloquial).—1. A foot:
specifically of children. Hence,
to pod = to toddle.
2. A protuberant belly; a CORPORATION (q.V.): also POD-BELLY. Hence, pod-bellied (poddy, or in pod) = (1) fat or stout: of men; and (2) pregnant, lumpy (q.v.): of women. Hence, too, podgy, pudgy, and pudsey, See Pot.
1753. Richardson, Grandison, vii. 232. He . . . kissed its forehead, its cheek, its lips, its little pudsey hands, first one, then the other.
1836. Dickens, Boz, 1. The vestry clerk, as everybody knows, is a short, pudgy, little man in black.
1845. Thackeray, Cornhill to Cairo, iii. The good old man! I wish I had had a shake of that trembling podgy hand somehow before he went. Ibid. (1854), Newcomes, vii. She . . . with infinite grace put forward one of the pudgy little hands, in one of the dirty gloves.
1871. Mathew Arnold, Friendship's Garland, v. A blond and disorderly mass of tow-like hair, a podgy and sanguine countenance.
1885. Field, 17 Oct. A good little spaniel if she was not shown so fat and PODGY.
3. (Scots').—A louse: see Chates.
Podge, subs. (colloquial).—1. A
fat man or woman.
2. (old).—An epaulette.
1834. Marryat, Peter Simple, . . . To put it into the wame of yon man with the gold PODGE on his shoulder, who has dared to affront the bluid of McFay.
Poddy, adj. (colloquial).—1.
Drunk: see Drinks and
Screwed.
2. See Pod, sense 2.
Podunk, subs. (American).—An
imaginary place: in burlesque.
Poem, subs. (colloquial).—A foolish
appreciative: as a well-cooked
dish; a pretty dress; a smart-cut
coat, and so forth.
1898. Pelican, 19 Feb., 17. Certain newly-shaped pieces, which, instead of being called by old-time English names are now referred to as bifurcated "Watteau visions"—"dreams"—"creations"—POEMS.
1899. Illustrated Bits, 25 Mar., 15, 2. Your dress is charming—a perfect poem in curves.
Poet-sucker, subs. phr. (old colloquial).—A
budding poet: cf.
Rabbit-sucker.
1625. Jonson, Staple of News, iv. 2. What says my poet-sucker? He's chewing his muse's cud.
Poet's-walk, subs. phr. (Eton).—The
tea served to Upper Club,
on half holidays, in River-walk.
Poge (Pogue, or Pogh). See
Poke.
Pogram, subs. (old).—A Dissenter;
a formalist; a puritanical starch
maw-worm; a creak-shoes
(q.v.).—HOTTEN (1864).
