1682. Wit and Mirth ('From Twelve Years Old'), 18. He Rumbl'd and Jumbl'd me o'er, and o'er, Till I found he had almost wasted the store Of his pudding.
1719. Durfey, Pills to Purge, vi. 301. Quoth he, my dear Philli, I'll give unto thee, Such pudding you never did see.
3. (old).—The guts.—Grose (1785). Hence pudding-house = the belly; pudding-ken = a cook-shop; pudding-snammer = a cook-shop thief; pudding-filler (old Scots') = a glutton.
1503-8. Dunbar [Bannatyne Club], 44 St., 14. Sic pudding-fillaris, descending doun from millaris, Within this land was nevir hard nor sene.
1596. Shakspeare, Merry Wives, ii. 1. As sure as his guts are made of PUDDINGS.
1596. Nashe, Saffron Walden [Works, iii. 148]. What a commotion there was in his entrayles or pudding-house, for want of food. Ibid. (1599), Lenten Stuffe [Harl. Misc., vi. 166]. He . . . thrust him downe his pudding-house at a gobbe.
1607. Rowlands, Diogenes Lanthorne, 7 (Hunterian Club's Repr., 1873). All the guttes in his pudding-house rumble and grumble at their slender alowance.
1772. Bridges, Burlesque Homer, 206. As on the ground his bum came smash His puddings jumbled with a swash.
1857. Snowden, Mag. Assistant (3rd ed.), 446. One who steals food. A PUDDING SNAMMER.
1893. Emerson, Lippo, x. I just went to one of my regular pudding-kens to sell the mungarly to some of the needies there.
4. (common).—Good luck.
Colloquialisms, mostly contemptuous are:—Pudding-bellied = big-stomached; pudding-faced = fat, round, and smooth in face; pudding-head = a fool: whence pudding-headed (Grose) = stupid; pudding-heart = a coward; pudding-hose = baggy breeches; pudding-sleeves = (1) large baggy sleeves as in the full dress clerical gown; whence (2) a parson: see sky-pilot; in pudding time (Grose) = in the nick of time, opportunely; puddingy = fat and round; pudding ABOUT THE HEELS = slovenly, thick-ankled; to ride POST FOR A PUDDING = to exert for little cause; to give the crows a pudding (Grose) = (1) to hang on a gibbet, and (2) to die: see Hop the Twig. Also proverbs and sayings:—'The proof of the pudding is in the eating'; 'Hungry dogs will eat dirty PUDDINGS'; 'Cold PUDDING will settle your love (Grose)'; 'Better some of a pudding than none of a pie'; 'There is no deceit in a bag-PUDDING'; 'Puddings and paramours should be hastily handled'; 'Puddings an' wort are hasty dirt'; 'It would vex a dog to see a pudding creep'; 'Be fair conditioned and eat bread with your PUDDING.'
1594. Tylney, Locrine, iii. 3. You come in pudding time, or else I had dress'd them.
1599. Shakspeare, Hen. V., ii. 1, 91. By my troth he'll yield the Crow a pudding one of these days.
1608. Withal, Dict., 3. I came in season, as they say in pudding time, tempore veni.
1614. Terence in English [Nares]. Per tempus advenis, you come in pudding time, you come as well as may be.
1630. Taylor, Works [Nares]. Our land-lord did that shift prevent, Who came in pudding time, and tooke his rent.
1663. Butler, Hudibras, i. 2. Mars that still protects the stout, In pudding time came to his aid.
1707. Ward, Hud. Red., 11. ii. 25. Sweethearts aft'r 'em will be crowding Like hungry Dogs to dirty Pudding.
