subs. (thieves’).—1. Drugged liver: used by burglars to silence house-dogs.
1887. J. W. HORSLEY, Jottings from Jail, i. When I opened a door there was a great tyke lying in front of the door, so I pulled out a piece of PUDDING and threw it to him, but he did not move.
2. (venery).—Coition: see GREENS. Also the penis: see PRICK. IN THE PUDDING CLUB (or WITH A BELLY-FUL OF MARROW PUDDING) = pregnant.
1719. D’URFEY, Wit and Mirth; or Pills to Purge Melancholy, iii. 74 (‘From Twelve Years Old’).
| He Rumbl’d and Jumbl’d me o’er, and o’er, | |
| Till I found he had almost wasted the store | |
| Of his PUDDING. | |
| Ibid., vi., 301. | |
| Quoth he my dear Philli I’ll give unto thee, | |
| Such PUDDING you never did see. |
3. (old).—The guts.—GROSE (1785). Hence PUDDING-HOUSE = the belly; PUDDING-KEN = a cook-shop; PUDDING-SNAMMER = a cook-shop thief; PUDDING-FILLER (old Scots’) = a glutton.
1503–8. DUNBAR [Bannatyne Club], 44 st., 14.
| Sic PUDDING-FILLARIS, discending down frome millaris, | |
| Within this land was nevir hard nor sene. |
1596. SHAKESPEARE, Merry Wives of Windsor, ii. 1. As sure as his guts are made of PUDDINGS.
1596. NASHE, Have with You to Saffron-Walden [Works, iii. 148]. What a commotion there was in his entrayles or PUDDING-HOUSE, for want of food. Ibid. (1599), Lenten Stuffe [Harleian Miscellany, VI. 166]. He … thrust him downe his PUDDING-HOUSE at a gobbe.
1607. ROWLANDS, Diogenes Lanthorne, 7 [Hunterian Club’s Reprint, 1873]. All the guttes in his PUDDING-HOUSE rumble and grumble at their slender alowance.
1772. BRIDGES, A Burlesque Translation of Homer, 206.
| As on the ground his bum came smash, | |
| His PUDDINGS jumbled with a swash. |
1857. SNOWDEN, Magistrates Assistant (3rd ed.), 446. One who steals food. A PUDDING SNAMMER.
1893. P. H. EMERSON, Signor Lippo, x. I just went to one of my regular PUDDING-KENS to sell the mungarly to some of the needies there.
4. (common).—Good luck.
COLLOQUIALISMS, mostly contemptuous are:—PUDDING-BELLIED = big-stomached; PUDDING-FACED = fat, round, and smooth in face; PUDDING-HEAD = a fool: whence PUDDING-HEADED (GROSE) = stupid; PUDDING-HEART = a coward; PUDDING-HOSE = baggy breeches; PUDDING-SLEEVES = (1) large baggy sleeves as in the full dress clerical gown; whence (2) a parson: see SKY-PILOT; IN PUDDING TIME (GROSE) = in the nick of time, opportunely; PUDDINGY = fat and round; PUDDING ABOUT THE HEELS = slovenly, thick-ankled; TO RIDE POST FOR A PUDDING = to exert for little cause; TO GIVE THE CROWS A PUDDING (GROSE) = (1) to hang on a gibbet, and (2) to die: see HOP THE TWIG. Also proverbs and sayings:—‘The proof of the PUDDING is in the eating’; ‘Hungry dogs will eat dirty PUDDINGS’; ‘Cold PUDDING will settle your love (GROSE)’; ‘Better some of a PUDDING than none of a pie’; ‘There is no deceit in a bag-PUDDING’; ‘PUDDINGS and paramours should be hastily handled’; ‘PUDDINGS an’ wort are hasty dirt’; ‘It would vex a dog to see a PUDDING creep’; ‘Be fair conditioned and eat bread with your PUDDING.’
1595. Locrine, iii. 3. Strum. Ay, you come IN PUDDING-TIME, or else I had dressed them.
1599. SHAKESPEARE, Henry V., ii. 1, 91. Host. By my troth, he’ll YIELD THE CROW A PUDDING one of these days.
1608. WITHALS, Dictionary, 3. I came in season, as they say IN PUDDING TIME, tempore veni.
1614. Terence in English [NARES]. Per tempus advenis, you come IN PUDDING TIME, you come as well as may be.
1630. TAYLOR (‘The Water Poet’), Workes, ‘A Discovery by Sea.’
| But that our Land-lord did that shift preuent, | |
| Who came IN PUDDING TIME, and tooke his Rent. |
1663. BUTLER, Hudibras, I. ii.
| But Mars, that still protects the stout, | |
| IN PUDDING-TIME came to his aid. |
1707. WARD, Hudibras Redivivus, II. ii. 25. Sweethearts aft’r ’em will be crowding Like HUNGRY DOGS TO DIRTY PUDDING.
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, 8 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, II. ii. Such a confused, PUDDING-HEADED, muddle-headed fellow.
1772. BRIDGES, A Burlesque Translation of Homer, 140.
| The horns … | |
| Became this Scotchman’s lawful plunder, | |
| Who just IN PUDDING-TIME came in. |
1777. ISAAC JACKMAN, All the World’s a Stage, i. 2. How can you extort that d—d PUDDING FACE of yours to madness?
1822. SCOTT, The 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. H. TAYLOR, Philip van Artevelde, pt. II. iii. 1.
| Van Kortz. Go, PUDDING-HEART! | |
| Take thy huge offal and white liver hence. |
1851–61. H. MAYHEW, London Labour and the London Poor, III. 65. A limpness and roundness of limb which gave the form a PUDDINGY appearance.
