subs. phr. (old Scots’).—A bag-pudding: hence, by force of metaphor, a glutton: especially an Englishman: whose appetite the Scotchman affected to despise, even as he hated and envied him for its manifold opportunities.
1730. E. BURT, Letters, i. 13, 138. ’Tis from this notion of the people, that my countrymen not only here, but all over Scotland, are dignified with the title of POKE-PUDDING, which, according to the sense of the word among the natives, signifies a glutton.
17[?]. HERD, Ancient and Modern Scottish Songs, etc., (1776), i. 118, ‘Little wat ye, etc.’
| They’ll fright the fuds of the POCKPUDS, | |
| For mony a buttock bare’s coming. |
