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.
| 1552 Huloet, Poke puddynge, maza, farrata. 1802 Sibbald Chron. Sc. Poetry Gloss., Pok-puds, bag-puddings, dumplings. 1825 Jamieson, Pock-pudding. |
2. Sc. Applied contemptuously to a corpulent or gluttonous person; an opprobrious designation in Scotland for an Englishman. Now humorous.
| c 1730 Burt 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. a 1776 in Herd Sc. Songs I. 118 They'll fright the fuds of the Pockpuds, For mony a buttock bare's coming. 1816 Scott 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. 1870 Ramsay Remin. vi. (ed. 18) 228 A set o' ignorant pock-puddings. 1885 Morris 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.
| 1856 Eng. Cycl. Nat. Hist. IV. 203 This is the Poke Pudding, Huckmuck, and Mum-Ruffin of the English. 1885 Swainson Prov. Names Birds 32 (British Long-tailed Titmouse) Poke pudding or Poke bag (Gloucestershire; Salop). Pudding bag (Norfolk). |