ˈpudding-bag
A bag in which a pudding is boiled. Also transf. and fig. Cf. pudding-poke.
| c 1597 T. Deloney Jack of Newberie (1619) iv. sig. G 3, The other maide..with the perfume in the pudding-bagge, flapt him about the face. 1626 in Nares (Halliw.), [A piece of Sail-cloth] about half a yard long, of the breadth of a pudding-bag. 1713 Steele Englishman No. 40. 262 From the purple Bishop and his horned Mitre to the bare-legged Capuchin with his picked Pudding-bag. 1795 Wolcott (P. Pindar) Pindariana Wks. 1812 IV. 207 Turning, like Pudding-bags Men inside out. 1858 G. Meredith Let. 4 Jan. (1970) I. 32 It is a pudding-bag..a quiescent receptacle for Roast Beef, Punch, and mince Pies. 1881 A. J. Duffield Don Quix. II. 538 The house of this lady is in a pudding-bag without any opening at the bottom. 1885 Swainson Prov. Names Birds 32 The penduline form of the nest [has] obtained for the bird [British Long-Tailed Titmouse] the names of..Poke pudding or Poke bag... Pudding bag (Norfolk). 1929 F. C. Bowen Sea Slang 107 Pudding bag, a stocking pennant used as a vane. 1939 F. Thompson Lark Rise 238 They..yelled: Old Hardwick skags! Come..to pick up rags To mend their mothers' pudding-bags. 1943 W. W. Gill in N. & Q. 9 Oct. 232/1 Pudding-bag, blind alley. 1961 F. H. Burgess Dict. Sailing 164 Pudding bag, a stocking or sleeve, used as a weather vane. |