Pudding Time (Grose 1811 Dictionary)

Pudding Time

In good time, or at the beginning of a meal: pudding formerly making the first dish. To give the crows a pudding; to die. You must eat some cold pudding, to settle your love.

Definition taken from The 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, originally by Francis Grose.

Pudding Sleeves * Puff

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Nathan Bailey's 1736 Dictionary of canting and thieving slang

John S. Farmer's collection of canting songs and slang rhymes

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