plum pudding

English

Alternative forms

• plum-pudding

Noun

plum pudding (countable and uncountable, plural plum puddings)

1. A pudding, cooked by boiling or steaming, containing a large amount of dried fruit.
   • 2022 December 14, David Turner, “The Edwardian Christmas getaway...”, in RAIL, number 972, page 35:

     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."

Derived terms

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

 

Translations

pudding containing a large amount of dried fruit

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 李子布丁 (lǐzi bùdīng)

• Esperanto: prun’pudingo
• Finnish: luumuvanukas
• Irish: maróg rísíní f
• Italian: budino alle prugne m
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• Swedish: plumpudding (sv) c
• Welsh: pwdin plwm m

See also

• Christmas pudding
• spotted dick