plum pudding

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noun

a rich steamed or boiled pudding containing raisins, currants, citron, spices, etc.

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Origin of plum pudding

First recorded in 1640–50

Words nearby plum pudding

plumose, plump, plumpen, plumper, plumpish, plum pudding, plum tomato, plumulaceous, plumule, plumulose, plumy

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How to use plum 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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At least those parents whose kids landed the plum roles will be.
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Central won thirty-three consecutive games, and Suffridge became a plum for the college recruiters.
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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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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.'
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Spain is at war with North America, and now offers us this sugar-plum to draw us to her side to defend her against invasion.
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The system would be perfect for the mellowing of port or madeira, but when it is applied to plum and apple jam or, when 18 pr.
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Even the two hired men sitting under another tree devouring the delicious pudding, paused to hear Benny laugh.
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British Dictionary definitions for plum pudding

plum pudding

noun

(in Britain) a dark brown rich boiled or steamed pudding made with flour, suet, sugar, and dried fruit

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