Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A bag-pudding: sometimes applied to persons as a term of opprobrium.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A bag pudding; a name of reproach or ridicule formerly applied by the Scotch to the English.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A bag pudding.
- noun derogatory, Scotland An
English person.
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Examples
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“Cleeve the pock-pudding to the chafts!” cried one voice.
Rob Roy 2005
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"Cleave the pock-pudding to the chafts!" said another.
Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North Samuel Rutherford Crockett
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Lady Glenlivet tauntingly remarked to her daughter-in-law, "it was not for the child of a mere English pock-pudding to decide what was fitting conduct for a Highland noble -- Maisie should remember she had wedded into an honourable house, and not strive to draw her husband aside from the path of duty."
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` ` Cleeve the pock-pudding to the chafts! '' cried one voice.
Rob Roy 1887
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` ` Ou, '' he said, ` ` what better could be expected of a wheen pock-pudding English folk?
Rob Roy 1887
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David Drummond and the young ladies murmured to one another their disgust that the English pock-pudding should not suppose Scots able to keep their heads with their own hands; but, as Jean sagely observed, 'No doubt he would not wish them to have occasion to hurt any of the English, nor Jamie to have to call them to account.'
Two Penniless Princesses Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862
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"Cleeve the pock-pudding to the chafts!" cried one voice.
Rob Roy — Volume 02 Walter Scott 1801
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"Cleeve the pock-pudding to the chafts!" cried one voice.
Rob Roy — Complete Walter Scott 1801
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When I was brought from the solitude of my mother's dwelling into the tumult of the Gaits 'Class at the High School -- when I was mocked for my English accent -- salted with snow as a Southern -- rolled in the gutter for a Saxon pock-pudding, -- who, with stout arguments and stouter blows, stood forth my defender?
Redgauntlet Walter Scott 1801
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a Saxon pock-pudding, — who, with stout arguments and stouter blows, stood forth my defender? — why, Alan Fairford.
Redgauntlet 2008
vendingmachine commented on the word pock-pudding
A name of reproach or ridicule formerly applied by the Scotch to the English.
"David Drummond and the young ladies murmured to one another their disgust that the English pock-pudding should not suppose Scots able to keep their heads with their own hands..."
August 10, 2015
qms commented on the word pock-pudding
Most insults are quickly construed
But Scots are inventively rude.
I find it off-putting -
The Brit as pock-pudding -
From folks who treat haggis as food.
April 30, 2017