ˈpudding-wife
1. a. A woman who sells puddings or sausages. ? Obs. b. A professional or expert maker of puddings (sense 1: Eng. Dial. Dict.). Now dial.
| 1448 Maldon, Essex, Court Rolls Bundle 27 No. 1 b, Cristiana podyngwyf alias fisshwyf vendidit salmones fetidos in mercato. 15.. in Dugdale Monast. Angl. (1817) I. 443/2 Sche shall pay for a gown to her grome coke and her poding wief by the yere ijs. a 1680 Butler Rem. (1759) I. 217 When Pudding-Wives were launcht in cockquean Stools; For falling foul on Oyster-women's Schools. |
2. The Florida blue-fish (Platyglossus radiatus); also called pudding-fish.
| 1734 Mortimer Carolina & Bahamas in Phil. Trans. XXXVIII. 317 The Pudding-Wife. Round the Eye spread seven blue Rays. 1876 Goode Fishes Bermudas 17 Turdus oculo radiato (the Pudding-Wife) is a young specimen of Chœrojulis radiatus. |