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jackpudding

jackpudding is the alternative form of Jack Pudding.

Meaning of Jack Pudding

Noun

Jack Pudding (plural Jack Puddings)

  1. A buffoon character appearing in stage and street performances.
    • And first, Sir Thomas Wroth (Jack Pudding to Prideaux the Post-master) had his cue to go high, and feel the pulse of the House.1648, Clement Walker, Relations and Observations: Historical and Politick, Upon the Parliament Begun Anno Dom: 1640, pages 69–70
    Synonyms:
    buffoon, clown, comedian comic, cutup, fool, harlequin, humorist, jester, joker, merry-andrew

Forms of jackpudding

pluraljackpuddings

Questions about jackpudding

What is jackpudding the alternative form of?
Jackpudding is the alternative form of Jack Pudding.

Words near jackpudding in the dictionary

  1. jackplanes
  2. jackpot
  3. jackpots
  4. jackpotted
  5. jackpotting
  6. jackpudding
  7. jackpuddings
  8. jackrabbit
  9. jackrabbit start
  10. jackrabbit starts
  11. jackrabbited

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