Jack Pudding

Instead of the heroic spirit of our past ages, Jack Pudding now staggers out of the wings in a torn jacket and shows us what kind of humor is engendered by stupidity and brandy, when they have a rendezvous in the head of a porter.

The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 09 Friedrich Hebbel and Otto Ludwig Various

We have the modern silly Johnny for the older silly Billy, while Jack Pudding is in German Hans Wurst,

The Romance of Names Ernest Weekley 1909

This Jack Pudding, I say, became yet a greater favourite than his mother, insomuch that he had the King's ear as well as his mouth at command, for the King you must know was a mighty lover of pudding; and Jack fitted him to a hair.

History of English Humour, Vol. 2 (of 2) Alfred Guy Kingan L'Estrange 1873

I was Clown and Jack Pudding and whatever served their turn, and the very name of Quipsome Hal drew crowds.

The Armourer's Prentices Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

I was Clown and Jack Pudding and whatever served their turn, and the very name of Quipsome Hal drew crowds.

The Armourer's Prentices Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

Canoes, as the negro Jack Pudding is called; the latter distinguishable by wearing white false faces, and enormous shocks of horsehair, fastened on to their woolly pates.

Tom Cringle's Log Michael Scott 1812

Who has ruin'd Jack Pudding, and broke Punchinello.

The Poetical Works of Henry Kirk White : With a Memoir by Sir Harris Nicolas Henry Kirk White 1795