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suet pudding

American  

noun

  1. a pudding made of chopped beef suet and flour, boiled or steamed in a cloth, often with other ingredients, as raisins, spices, etc.


suet pudding British  

noun

  1. any of a variety of sweet or savoury puddings made with suet and steamed or boiled

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of suet pudding

First recorded in 1750–60

Example Sentences

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Other savory puddings include steak and kidney pudding and suet pudding.

From Salon • Dec. 19, 2022

It didn't wobble like its forebears, wasn't the Yorkshire pudding or suet pudding that grew from a sausagey tradition in the sixteenth-century.

From Salon • Aug. 11, 2018

The problem is that since November Chelsea have been a side as fresh and watchable as a three-weeks-past-its-sell-by-date suet pudding attempting the Charleston, but with nothing like the potential for unpredictability.

From The Guardian • Feb. 22, 2011

But the English, firmly entrenched behind impenetrable ramparts of bubble & squeak, cold shape and suet pudding, have gone right on boiling their Brussels sprouts and slicing their mutton too thick.

From Time Magazine Archive

‘Madge—in case you’ve been wondering—is going to marry me ... aren’t you, you toothsome, plump, suet pudding?’

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes

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