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pock-puddings

pock-puddings is the plural of pock-pudding.

Meaning of pock-pudding

Noun

pock-pudding (plural pock-puddings)

  1. (archaic) A bag pudding.
  2. (Scotland, archaic, derogatory) An English person.
    • "Devil take that old man," said M'Aulay, "he would tell every thing, were it to cost one one's life; but it's no jesting matter to you neither, my Lord, for I reckon on your friendly and fraternal benevolence, as a near kinsman of our house, to help me out with the money due to these pock-puddings...1819, Jedediah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], chapter IV, in Tales of My Landlord, Third Series. […], volume III, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co....

Questions about pock-puddings

What is pock-puddings the plural of?
Pock-puddings is the plural of pock-pudding.

Words near pock-puddings in the dictionary

  1. Pocius
  2. Pociuses
  3. pock
  4. pock-fretten
  5. pock-pudding
  6. pock-puddings
  7. pocked
  8. Pockels effect
  9. Pockels effects
  10. pocker
  11. pocket

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