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hasty pudding
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noun
New England. cornmeal mush.
Chiefly British. a dish made of flour or oatmeal stirred into seasoned boiling water or milk and quickly cooked.
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Origin of hasty pudding
First recorded in 1590–1600
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British Dictionary definitions for hasty pudding
hasty pudding
noun
British a simple pudding made from milk thickened with tapioca, semolina, etc, and sweetened
US a mush of cornmeal, served with treacle sugar
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