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plum pudding en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) A pudding, cooked by boiling or steaming, containing a large amount of dried fruit.
   • In 1914, the Hendon and Finchley Times published a piece titled 'People who have no Christmas'. An engine-driver's comment was this: "For many years now I have never enjoyed a real Christmas. My engine has claimed me on this day, and my only regret is that I am not attached to a slow goods train, so that I could snatch time to eat some plum-pudding." 2022 December 14, David Turner, “The Edwardian Christmas getaway...”, in RAIL, number 972, page 35:

Forms

Coordinates

spotted dick · fruitcake · figgy pudding · Christmas pudding

Deriveds

plum pudding stone · plum pudding model · plum-puddinger · plum pudding voyage · plum pudding dog · plum pudding mahogany · plum pudding breed

Hypernyms

food · dessert

Translations (10)

ga maróg rísíní (pudding containing a large amount of dried fruit) · it budino natalizio (pudding containing a large amount of dried fruit) · cy pwdin plwm (pudding containing a large amount of dried fruit) · cmn 李子布丁 (pudding containing a large amount of dried fruit) · sv plumpudding (pudding containing a large amount of dried fruit) · pl plum pudding (pudding containing a large amount of dried fruit) · eo prun’pudingo (pudding containing a large amount of dried fruit) · fi luumuvanukas (pudding containing a large amount of dried fruit) · it budino di Natale (pudding containing a large amount of dried fruit) · pt pudim de passas (pudding containing a large amount of dried fruit)