† ˈpudding-prick Obs.
A slender wooden skewer (see prick n. 14) with which the ends of a gut containing a pudding were fastened. Often in similative phrase: see quots. 1562, 1611.
| a 1518 Skelton Magnyf. 2122 As huksters they hucke and they stycke, And pynche at the payment of a poddynge prycke. a 1533 Frith Answ. More (1548) I vj, Hys proue shall not be worth a podynge prycke. 1562 J. Heywood Epigr. vi. xix, A pooddyng pricke is one, a mylpost is an other. 1611 Cotgr. s.v. Arbre, (We say of one that hath squandered away great wealth) hee hath thwitten a mill⁓post to a pudding pricke. |