| 单词 |
poke-pudding |
| 释义 |
ˈpoke-ˌpudding
Also (Sc.) 9 pock-pudding, contr. 8–9 pock-pud.
[f. poke n.1 + pudding.]
1. A pudding made in a poke or bag, a bag-pudding. Now Sc. and dial.
1552Huloet, Poke puddynge, maza, farrata. 1802Sibbald Chron. Sc. Poetry Gloss., Pok-puds, bag-puddings, dumplings. 1825Jamieson, Pock-pudding.
2. Sc. Applied contemptuously to a corpulent or gluttonous person; an opprobrious designation in Scotland for an Englishman. Now humorous.
c1730Burt Lett. N. Scotl. (1754) I. vi. 138 My Country⁓men..all over Scotland, are dignified with the Title of Poke Pudding, which, according to the Sense of the Word among the Natives, signifies a Glutton. a1776in Herd Sc. Songs I. 118 They'll fright the fuds of the Pockpuds, For mony a buttock bare's coming. 1816Scott Old Mort. xx, ‘We maun gar wheat-flour serve us for a blink’, said Niel,..‘the Englishers live amaist upon't; but, to be sure, the pock-puddings ken nae better’. 1827― Diary 20 Dec., Anent the copyrights—the pockpuds were not frightened by our high price. 1870Ramsay Remin. vi. (ed. 18) 228 A set o' ignorant pock-puddings. 1885Morris in Mackail Life (1899) II. 143 Whether pock-pudding prejudice or not, I can't bring myself to love that country [Scotland].
3. A local name of the Long-tailed Titmouse.
1856Eng. Cycl. Nat. Hist. IV. 203 This is the Poke Pudding, Huckmuck, and Mum-Ruffin of the English. 1885Swainson Prov. Names Birds 32 (British Long-tailed Titmouse) Poke pudding or Poke bag (Gloucestershire; Salop). Pudding bag (Norfolk). |
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