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in the pudding club

in the pudding club prepositional phrase: pregnant.

Prepositional phrase

  1. (Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, Newfoundland, UK, colloquial) Pregnant.
    Synonyms:
    pregnant

Synonyms of in the pudding club

Origin of in the pudding club

* Possibly derived from the round shape of a pregnant abdomen, resembling that of a traditional boiled pudding. * An alternative suggestion is an association with dialectal English pod (“belly”), German puddig (“swollen”), Westphalian Low German Puddek (“lump, pudding”).

Questions about in the pudding club

What does in the pudding club mean?
In the pudding club means pregnant.
What part of speech is in the pudding club?
In the pudding club is a prepositional phrase.

Words near in the pudding club in the dictionary

  1. in the pocket
  2. in the pocket of someone
  3. in the post
  4. in the process
  5. in the process of
  6. in the pudding club
  7. in the racket
  8. in the rattle
  9. in the raw
  10. in the rear with the gear
  11. in the red

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