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puftaloon Austral.|ˈpʌftəluːn|
Also pufftaloon, puftaloony, puffterlooner, puff de loon(ey), etc.
[Origin obscure; cf. puff n. 5.]
A small fried cake, spread with jam, sugar, or honey, and usu. eaten hot.
[1853Mossman & Banister Australia 126 ‘Leather⁓jackets’—an Australian bush term for a thin cake made of dough, and put into a pan to bake with some fat... The Americans indulge in this kind of bread, giving them the name of ‘Puff ballooners’.] 1871M. Clarke His Natural Life v. ii, in Austral. Jrnl. VI. 602/2 ‘Have a puffterlooner, Master Dick,’ suggests Derwent Jack, ‘or a bit o' sweetcake.’ 1908Mrs. A. Gunn We of Never Never xiv. 189 The cooking lessons proceeded until the fine art of making ‘puff de looneys’..had been mastered. 1935Bulletin (Sydney) 27 Feb. 20/1 Camped in Tapalin Bend, River Murray, he was frying pufftaloons when a light shower caused the hot fat to jump and sting his hands and wrists. 1940I. L. Idriess Lightning Ridge 82 Puftaloons are tasty though; fry them in fat, then smother them with treacle and swallow 'em while greasy. 1942E. Langley Pea Pickers 296 She was making puftaloonies all the time we talked and in next to no time had a plate of them in front of us, with a hot cup of tea. 1964T. Ronan Packhorses & Pearling Boat v. 140 A camp oven full of ‘puff de loons’ (fried scones to the uninitiated). 1970P. White Vivisector i. 10 Mumma started telling all she had heard next door, with the kids stuffing on Mrs. Burt's cold puftaloons. |