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dog in a blanket en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (UK, archaic, slang) Synonym of roly-poly (“a kind of steamed pudding”).
   • The dog-in-a-blanket making its appearance, Clara cut three beauteous slices, with spiral rings of black currant alternating with suet. 1867, Charlotte Mary Yonge, The Six Cushions, page 72:
   • Nasty Roche had big hands. He called the Friday pudding dog-in-the-blanket. 1916, James Joyce, chapter I, in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: B[enjamin] W. Huebsch, →OCLC:

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Synonyms

roly-poly