pudding n.
1. the vagina.
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Comedye Concernyng Three Lawes (1550) Ciii: What wylte thou fall to mutton? [...] Rank loue is full of heate where hungrye dogges lacke meate, They wyll durty puddynges eate For want of befe and conye. | |
| in Pills to Purge Melancholy IV 233: Margery came in then with an Earthen Pot, / Full of Pudding that was piping hot. | |
| AEnigmatical Repository 11: The engine of mischief, with dug of a cow / And taylor’s delight, are delicious you know / Some one hundred thousands we’ll mix, and well bake, / And furnish a pudding which few will forsake. | |
| ‘With My Cook So Fair’ Lummy Chaunter 67: At the smell of her pudding, I sticks to her like a good ’un. | |
 | ‘Jacksonville Blues’ lyrics] I can strut my pudding, spread my grease with ease / ’Cause I know my onions—that’s why I always please. | |
| 🎵 Everybody’s talkin’ about chicken and rice / But I like my baby’ s pudding, I like it best of all . |
2. (also white pudding) the penis; thus pudding-bag n., the vagina; pudding prick n., the penis.
| Proverbs II Ch. xi: For soth (said my frend) this matter maketh bost, / Of diminuation. For here is a myll post / Thwitten to a puddyng pricke so neerely, / That I confesse me discouraged cleerely, / In both my weddyngs. | |
| Woman is a Weathercock I ii: Mistress Kate likes me not; she says I speak as if I had a pudding in my mouth, and I answered her, if I had a white pudding (sausage) [...] I was better armed for a woman. | |
| Devil’s Law-Case I i: I have heard Strange jugling tricks have been conveyed to a woman / In a Pudding. | |
| Mercurius Fumigosus 10 2 Aug. 93: How didst thou catch her Love, quoth the Cobler? Truly Husband quoth shee, I caught her in my Pudding-Bagge. | |
| ‘Hunting of the Hare’ Pepys Ballads (1987) IV 270: If he please to make a Friend, He’d better give a Puddings-end. | |
| Virgil Travestie (1765) Bk I 58: She began, upon a sudden, / To feel a longing for White Pudden. | |
| ‘Merry Dialogue between a Maid & her Master’ Pepys Ballads (1987) III 140: [He] gave her a breakfast as she did it call, He gave her a pudding, but that was but small ... But ... The pudding he gave her made her for to swell. | |
| ‘From Twelve Years Old I Oft Have Been Told’ in Merry Songs and Ballads (1897) II 91: I can Remember my Mother has said, / What a Delight she had to be Fed / With a Pudding. | |
| ‘Song’ in Pills to Purge Melancholy I 235: As for Pudding is the Pan. | |
| Joyful News for Maids & Young Women [subtitle] Being An Account of a Ship-load of white Puddings, brought from a far Country, and are to be exposed to Sale at reasonable Rates, for the Benefit of Old and Young Women. | |
| in Pills to Purge Melancholy III 73: But by the Rowling and Trowling about, / How kindly and sweetly the Marrow flew out / Of his Pudding. | |
| Honest Fellow 130: When I am among some wives that are young, / Who think they shall never give it due praise; / It is sweet, it is good, it is pleasant still, / They cry, — they think they shall never have their fill / Of a pudding. | |
| ‘The Belly-Full’ Flash Chaunter 24: His daughter too much pudding swallowed. / Still Pudding! Pudding! loud she hollow’d. | |
| ‘John Marrow’s Pudding’ Cockchafer 37: Most maids admire and praise it so [...] Oh, what a delight they have to play / With a long stocking pudding! | |
| Sl. and Its Analogues. |
3. (also pudding-bag, puddings) the stomach.
| Proverbs (2nd edn) 82: Sweet-heart and bag pudding. | |
| Amusements Serious and Comical in Works (1744) III 67: He told them of fifteen persons that were run clear through the body, and were glad to carry their puddings in their hands for a matter of three days together. | |
| Burlesque Homer (3rd edn) 206: As on the ground his bum came smash, / His puddings jumbled with a swash. | |
| , , | | Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue n.p.: Puddings. The guts: I’ll let out your puddings. |
| Lex. Balatronicum [as cit. 1785]. | |
| Don Juan canto XI line 99: [Juan] Drew forth a pocket-pistol [...] And fired it into one assailant’s pudding. | |
| Pierce Egan’s Life in London 13 Mar. 53/1: Halton tried an experiment on the Gypsy’s pudding-bag ; but the enemy was too quick for him. | |
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Andrew Jackson 70: Gouge him, hoop his barrel, stranger; fag him in the craw, hit him in the pudding bag. | |
| ‘Johnny’s Rolling Pin’ in Gentleman’s Private Songster in Spedding & Watt (eds) Bawdy Songbooks (2011) III 377: She was very fond of pudding and she / Knew John had a stiff one, with which she’d make free. | |
| Sporting Life (London) 17 Oct. 3/4: Gillam opened the ball with a straight left-hander in Tom's pudding-bag. | |
| Sheffield Gloss. 182: Puddings, entralis, intestines. |
4. sexual intercourse.
| in Comical Hist. of Don Quixote Pt 3 I i: I go to’t as other folks do, I think, for a ready Pudding: Besides, Mary has [...] such a jigging crumptious whim with her Backside. [...] She has a pure stroke with her, fackins – Then, to say the truth, Mary’s very well forehanded too. | |
| in Pills to Purge Melancholy III 73: It is sweet, It is good, It is pleasant stiil, / They [i.e. ‘Wives’] cry, they think they shall ne’er have their fill / Of a Pudding. | |
| Nancy Dawson’s Jests 5: I know how I’ll manage, I’ll live upon pudding. | |
| ‘The Belly-Full’ Flash Chaunter 23: My daughter’s fond of pudding, d’ye see? / So a custard pudding, let your pudding be. / Away he went, and did the job so well, / He made the lady round about to swell. | |
| Sam Sly 31 Mar. 2/2: Master K—d [...] not to be seen so often at the noted eel pie-house, Church-lane, making love to Miss C—e A—d, but attend to his brother's business a little more, and not go after the ‘Pies,’ because there's plenty of pudding at home. | |
| Vocabula Amatoria (1966) 24: Avoir les bonnes graces = to copulate; ‘to get a bit of pudding’. |
5. an unborn child, a foetus.
| Tom Thumb I v: When in a Pudding, by his Mother put, The Bastard, by a Tinker, on a Stile Was drop’d [...] can I bear To see him, from a Pudding, mount the Throne? | |
| Tristram Shandy (1949) 125: A pudding’s end, – replied my father, – the doctor must be paid the same for inaction as action. |
6. (UK Und.) meat, usu. liver, that has been impregnated with drugs or poison, used by a thief to silence a house dog, thus v. pudding, to drug/kill a dog with such meat.
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Sydney Gaz. 10 May 3/3: All thieves have the knack of instantly quieting the fiercest watch-dogs, by throwing them a kind of narcotic ball — this they call ‘puddening’ them . | |
| Bell’s Life in Sydney 13 Nov. 1/1: ‘Leave the tyke to me; if puddin wo’nt quiet him, this will,’ said Bully, exposing a huge knife. | |
| in Macmillan’s Mag. (London) ‘Autobiog. of a Thief’ (1879) XL 505: When I opened the door there was a great tyke (dog) lying in front of the door, so I pulled out a piece of pudding (liver prepared to silence dogs) and threw it to him. | |
| No Hiding Place! 191/2: Pudding. Poisoned meat, for administering to watch-dogs. |
7. in fig. senses [var. on pie n. (3a)].
(a) of a person, esp. a victim, a weakling, a ‘pushover’.
| Nat. Police Gaz. (NY) 3 Nov. 6/1: ‘Touch him right — and he’s a pudding’. | |
| ‘Casey at the Bat’ in Mad mag Aug.–Sept (1953) 22: And the former was a puddn and the latter was a fake. | |
| Truth (Sydney) 19 Aug. 6/7: That soft-hearted bleater, Tom Butt [...] has once more cried ‘enough’ to a man half his size [...] Joe Cullen made the huge pudding stop in three rounds. | |
| Omaha Dly Bee (NE) 22 Sept. 9/3: [headline] Bullhead Luck at Poker. A Convincing Game at a Stop-Over Joint [...] A Foreign Pilgrim Who was Considered a Pudding but proved the Luckiest of Poker Players. | |
| Bar-20 Days 144: He put it over on me, an’ I’m the one that’s got to shoot him up. He’s mine, my pudding. | |
| Horse’s Mouth (1948) 321: Blast you, you don’t get tight now, you old pudding. | |
| Jennings Goes To School 112: There’s no point in us sitting here like a couple of spare puddings. | |
| Guntz 62: This geezer was a right pudding when it came to the punch up lark. | |
| Sun. Times Mag. 12 Oct. 30: They think you’re a right pudden if you do something for nowt. | |
| Soft Detective 49: A sullen pudding. |
(b) (US) anything easily accomplished.
| Recollections 262: It was an ‘inside’ job from the start, and was managed chiefly by ‘Shang’ Draper and Leslie. In thieves’ slang it was a ‘pudding’. | |
| Checkers 34: It’s a puddin’; it’s a tapioca. honest, it’s a regular gift; the chance of your life. | |
| Sun (NY) 14 Jan. 6/2: I felt comfortable I did [...] of what promised to be a right puddin’ of a job. | |
| Bowery Life [ebook] I say, if yer got a good graft, stick to it, an’ don’t try an’ butt in on sumbody elses puddin’. | |
| Wash. Post 3 July 3/1: We’ve got enough rag ter buy 100 tins at 10 per. It’s a regular puddin’. | |
![[Ire]](/static/img/flags/ire.png "Ireland") | Scarperer (1966) 36: Breaking out of this place is a puddin’ compared to getting offside from the Scarperer. | |
| (con. 1860s) Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem 104: All pudding. Easy as you like. |
8. money, profit.
| Long Odds II 59: Besides the solid pudding, Mr Stubber further coveted a share of the laurels of his profession [...] Let alone the money, it was hard to be denied the chance of leading the winner of the Derby in. | |
| Thieves Slang ms list from District Police Training Centre, Ryton-on-Dunsmore, Warwicks 8: Pudding: Proceeds of prostitution. |
9. (Aus.) in horse-racing, a weight used in handicapping.
| Sydney Sportsman (Surry Hills, NSW) 17 Oct. 1/1: Woe betide the owner whose horse does not run well when the betting steward has a bit on; he’s sure to be asked to [...] ‘cop out ’ some extra pudding when next handicapped. |
10. (US) an affectionate term of address.
| letter 5 Apr. Joint (1972) 162: Let me hear from you, little pudding. | |
| (con. 1930s) Man Walking On Eggshells 4: Damn, puddin, seems like I just hit the sack. | |
| Robbers (2001) 113: I told you we was robbers, puddin. | |
| Razorblade Tears 199: ‘What are you talking about, puddin’?’. |
11. semen.
| Start in Life (1979) 21: More than once I left her at night, feeling full of rage at the rice pudding down my leg. |
In compounds
see separate entry.
the vagina.
| ‘The Old Pudding-Pye Woman’ in Roxburghe Ballads (1893) VII:1 77: If any young man have a mind to such a rare prize, / He shall have her Daughter and all her Pudding-pyes. |
In phrases
1. a black man’s penis.
| ‘Sambo’s Black Pudding’ Icky-Wickey Songster 34: The sight made his black pudding swell. | |
| Maledicta IV:2 (Winter) 193: The sausage termshave largely fallen from use, although one still hears black pudding for the organ of the negro. |
2. (US black) the vagina; thus sexual intercourse.
| et al. A2Z 8/1: black puddin’ – a black woman’s private parts or some action with same [...] I’m going to V-Town to git me some black puddin’. |
see under dead adj.
of a woman, to have sexual intercourse.
| Sl. and Its Analogues. |
(Aus.) in trouble.
| (con. 1943) Irish Fandango [ebook] ‘I gotta get back or I’ll be in the pudden’. |
(UK und.) to live as a pimp.
| Thieves Slang ms list from District Police Training Centre, Ryton-on-Dunsmore, Warwicks 6: Live on pudding (or batter): Live on immoral earnings. |
SE in slang uses
In derivatives
stupid.
| ‘’Arry on the Elections’ Punch 12 Dec. 277/2: If that Cow and Three Acres does fetch him, Hodge must ’ave a puddeny chump. |
In compounds
see pudding-head n.
(US) a boxing-glove.
| ‘Kid Brady — How He Made His Debut’ in Captain Sept. 🌐 Here, kid, help me out of these bally pudding-cases, and I’ll give you a dollar. |
a pimp.
| Spike Island (1981) 135: Oh aye, a puddin’ eater — must be. |
see separate entries.
1. the stomach.
| Have With You to Saffron-Walden in Works III (1883–4) 148: What a commotion there was in his entrayles or pudding-house, for want of food. | |
| Praise of the Red Herring 41: He stept, and pluckt him from his state with a wennion [...] and thrust him downe his pudding house at a gobbe. | |
| Diogenes Lanthorne 7: All the gutts in his Pudding-house, rumble and grumble at their slender allowance. | |
| Knaves of Spades and Diamonds 35: [To a Gormondizing Glutton] Vpon foure Capons then his teeth did deale, And sent them downe into his pudding house. |
2. (UK Und.) the workhouse.
| Modern Flash Dict. | |
| Flash Dict. in Sinks of London Laid Open. |
a parson.
| Clandestine Marriage III i: Here we are – hard at it – paving the road to matrimony [...] we shall soon set pudding-sleeves to work. | |
| , , | | Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue. |
| Lex. Balatronicum. | |
| Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue. |
one who robs a cook-shop.
| Poverty, Mendicity and Crime; Report 91: The lowest of all thieves (despised even of his fellows) is the ‘pudding snammers.’ These ‘pudding snammers’ are young urchins whose love of pudding far exceeds their love of work; so they loiter about cook-shops, and when customers are departing with plates of beef or pudding, pounce on them. | |
| Satirist & Sporting Chron. (Sydney) 4 Mar. 2/1: Mr Pudding Snammers rode many miles to se the fun. | |
| Magistrate’s Assistant (3rd edn) 446: One who steals food. A pudding snammer. | |
| , , | | Sl. Dict. |
| Derbyshire Courier 12 Dec. 7/1: Local Flash language [...] A pudding snammer, one who steals food. | |
| Aus. Sl. Dict. 62: Pudding Snammer, one who robs a cook-shop. | |
| Argus (Melbourne) 20 Sept. 6/4: Amongst these small fry of the profession [are] the pudding snapper, or robber of cook-shops; the shooting star, or thief who frequently changes his quarters; the shorter or coin clipper. |
the mouth.
| Bell’s Life in London 7 Apr. 3/2: Lenney [...] was once more tumbled off his supporters with a flush hit on his pudding trap. | |
| (con. 1824) Fights for the Championship 94: Ward [...] caught Sampson on the pudding-trap. |
In phrases
keep quiet about it, say absolutely nothing about it.
| Dict. Canting Crew n.p.: Mum-for-that, not a Word of the Pudding. |
(Aus.) to put on weight.
| Call Me When the Cross Turns Over (1958) 48: He squinted at her [...] ‘Put a bit of puddin’ on, ain’tcher?’. |
In exclamations
(US) a general excl. of dismissal, contempt, negation.
| Call It Sleep (1977) 59: ‘Twiset, my pudd’n,’ retorted the first in wrathful contempt. ‘It’s de toid time.’. |