pease pudding

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noun Chiefly British.

a pudding of strained split peas mixed with egg.

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Origin of pease pudding

First recorded in 1750–60

Words nearby pease pudding

pease, pease-brose, peasecod, peasecod breastplate, peasen, pease pudding, peashooter, pea soup, pea-souper, peat, peat bog

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How to use pease pudding in a sentence

It was popularized as a holiday dessert in 16th-century England and also is known as Christmas pudding or plum pudding.
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INSIDER TIP: Bring a collapsible sports chair and (try to) leave room for pecan pie and bread pudding.
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What they got was, in the evocate words of Ben Franklin, a “Prince Eugene” who had “eaten a Pudding Bagg.”
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Yes, you can eat familiar voileivăt (sandwiches) for lunch and rice pudding or banana cream pie for jălkiruoat (dessert).
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The former Pease Air Force Base in New Hampshire marked our first stop.
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Well, the pudding moment arrived, and a huge slice almost obscured from sight the plate before us.
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I tell you, madam, most distinctly and emphatically, that it is bread pudding and the meanest kind at that.'
The Book of Anecdotes and Budget of Fun;|Various
Even the two hired men sitting under another tree devouring the delicious pudding, paused to hear Benny laugh.
The Box-Car Children|Gertrude Chandler Warner
Never take more than two vegetables; do not take a second plate of soup, pastry, or pudding.
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(I mean the widow lady's whiskered companion)—I saw him eat pease with the very knife with which he had dissected the duck!
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British Dictionary definitions for pease pudding

pease pudding

noun

(esp in Britain) a dish of split peas that have been soaked and boiled served with ham or pork

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