Pudding wife

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• Pudding

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• old-wife

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• fish-wife

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• old wife

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• Black pudding

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• Hasty pudding

  ·- A thick batter pudding made of Indian meal stirred into boiling water; mush. II. Hasty pudding ·...

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• Pock-pudding

  ·noun A bag pudding; a name of reproach or ridicule formerly applied by the Scotch to the English. ...

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• Pudding fish

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• Pudding-headed

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• Sea pudding

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• hasty pudding

  Oatmeal and milk boiled to a moderate thickness, and eaten with sugar and butter. Figuratively, a we...

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• jack pudding

  The merry andrew, zany, or jester to a mountebank. ...

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• pudding sleeves

  A parson. ...

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• pudding time

  In good time, or at the beginning of a meal: pudding formerly making the first dish. To give the cro...

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• spoil pudding

  A parson who preaches long sermons, keeping his congregation in church till the puddings are overdon...

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• pudding-ball

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• hasty-pudding

  Indian meal stirred in boiling water into a thick batter or pudding, and eaten with milk, butter, an...

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• beestling-pudding

  pudding made of beest. ...

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• hasty-pudding

  A batter made of flour or oatmeal stirred in boiling water, and eaten with treacle or sugar at sea. ...

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• left-handed wife

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• Pudding Lane, Eastcheap

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• Pudding Lane, Queenhithe

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• pudding-headed fellow

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• pudding-pye-doll

  the dish called toad-in-a-hole, meat boiled in a crust. Norf. ...

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• pudding and dolphin

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• wife in water colours

  A mistress, or concubine; water colours being, like their engagements, easily effaced, or dissolved....

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• Pharaoh, The Wife Of

  The wife of one Pharaoh, the king who received Hadad the Edomite, is mentioned in Scripture. She is ...

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• (St.) George in Pudding Lane

  See St. George Botolph Lane. ...

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