1708-10. Swift, Polite Conversation, ii. Sir John, . . . will you do as we do? You are come in Pudden-Time. Ibid., ii. Miss. This Almond Pudden was pure good, but it is grown quite cold. Neverout. So much the better, Miss; cold Pudden will settle your Love. Ibid., iii. Scornful Dogs will eat dirty Puddens. Ibid., ii. Madam, I'm like all Fools, I love everything that is good; but the Proof of the Pudden is in the Eating. Ibid., Baucis and Philemon. About each arm a pudding sleeve.
1720. Hearne, Diary, 3 Feb. The whiggs and the enemies of the universities . . . all go in pudding-sleeve gowns.
c.1750. Old Song, 'Vicar of Bray.' When George in pudding time came o'er, &c.
1749. Smollett, Gil Blas [Routledge], 344. The proof of the pudding IS IN THE EATING; SO I will . . . give you a specimen of my talent.
1759. Sterne, Tristram Shandy, 11. ii. Such a confused, pudding-headed, muddle-headed fellow.
1772. Bridges, Burlesque Homer, 140. The horns!. . . Became this Scotchman's lawful plunder, Who just in pudding time came in.
1777. Jackman, All the World's a Stage, i. 2. How can you extort that dd pudding face of yours to madness?
1822. Scott, Fortunes of Nigel, xxvi. A purse-proud, pudding-headed, fat-gutted, lean-brained Southron.
1833. Carlyle, Cagliostro [Fraser, viii.] Stupid, pudding-faced as he looks.
1834. Taylor, Ph. van Artevelde, 11. iii. 1. Go, pudding-heart! Take thy huge offal and white liver hence.
1851-61. Mayhew, Lond. Lab., 111. 65. A limpness and roundness of limb which gave the form a puddingy appearance.
PUDDLE, subs. (old).—1. A term of
contempt: also as adj. Whence
puddle-poet = a gutter rhymester;
a puddle of [a man, &c]
= a blundering fool.
1665. Fuller, Church Hist., 1. iii. 1. It seems the puddle-poet did hope that the jingling of his rhymes would drown the sound of his false quantity.
1782. Darblay, Cecilia, v11. v. I remember, when I was quite a boy, hearing her called a limping old puddle.
1834. Carlyle [Froude, Life in London, 1. 16]. A foot which a puddle of a maid scalded three weeks ago.
2. (venery).—The female pudendum: see Monosyllable.
Verb. (common).—To tipple: see Drinks and Screwed.
2. (old).—To muddy; to turbidize.
1602. Shakspeare, Othello, iii. 4, 143. Hath puddled his clear spirit.
The Puddle, subs. phr. (common).—1. The Atlantic Ocean: see Big Pond, Herring-pond, and Pond; also (2), in Cornwall, the English Channel.
1889. Half Holiday, 6 July. There seems to be no end to the chaff which the downy dandies across the puddle have to bear.
Puddle-dock. The Duchess (or
Countess) of Puddledock,
subs. phr. (old).—1. An imaginary
dignitary. [Puddledock
= an ancient pool in Thames
Street, not of the cleanest description.]
1708-10. Swift, Polite Conversation, i. Neverout. . . . I'll go to the Opera to-night, . . . for I promised to squire the Countess to her Box. Miss. The Countess of Puddledock, I suppose.
Pudend, subs. (venery).—The female
pudendum: see Monosyllable.—Urquhart
(1653).
Pudsey, subs. (common).—1. A
foot: see Creepers.
2. See Pod and Pud.
Pudgy. See Pod.
