plum puddingn.adj.

1630 J. Taylor Wks. 14 'Twas ex'lent good, and more the truth to tell ye, Boyl'd with a fine Plum-Pudding in the belly.

1652 Bastard ii. ii. 24 Let us expatiate to refresh our palats with our delicious banquets, the minc't pies, and the Plum-pudding which my English Cook made me.

1711 W. King et al. Vindic. Sacheverell 75 This is just as proper as I had a good Plumb Pudden to day with a Mixture of Flower and Raisins.

1725 D. Defoe New Voy. round World ii. 140 I gave the Cook order to make every Mess a good Plumb-Pudding.

1772 H. Mackenzie Man of World (1823) ii. xi. 478 A plumb-pudding of a very uncommon circumference was raised conspicuous in the middle.

1829 P. Egan Boxiana New Ser. II. 780 Sirloin and turkey, plum-pudding and ale!

1852 ‘E. Wetherell’ Queechy I. 392 I would make a plum pudding if I had raisins, but, there is not one in the house.

1899 Westm. Gaz. 24 June 8/1 Mademoiselle has probably by this time mastered the art of plum-pudding making.

1941 Faugh-a-Ballagh 34 58/1 A Christmas dinner of turkey, plum pudding and all those extra trimmings which go to make a Christmas dinner.

1999 K. Hickman Daughters of Britannia (2000) v. 108 Plum puddings are boiled, turkeys are basted, crackers are pulled.

1811 L. Aikin Juvenile Corr. 73 I cannot help writing to you today, to..wish you many happy birthdays;..we shall have a great plum-pudding in honour of you..and drink your health afterwards.

1813 W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. 35 233 Little Jack Horner, we fear, misapplies the word plum, when he calls a dried raisin, or currant, by that name. The bullace pudding, the prune pudding, and the damascene pudding, are better entitled to be called plum-puddings than the currant, or raisin, puddings, which have usurped that appellation.

c1900 Beeton's Every-day Cook. Bk. Plum Pudding. (Fresh Fruit.)... Seasonable with various kinds of plums, from the beginning of August to the beginning of October.

2003 Argus Leader (Sioux Falls, S. Dakota) (Nexis) 19 Jan. 1 f My favorite part was the puddings made from wild plums. Chokecherries and June berries, nothing else tastes like them. But I liked the wild plum puddings.

1851 H. Mayhew London Labour II. 53/2 An odd ‘plum-pudding’, or coach-dog (the white dog with dark spots which runs after carriages).

1897 Westm. Gaz. 11 Feb. 4/1 The ‘plum-pudding’ breed, as the Dalmatian or carriage dog is commonly termed, is so well represented as to make it obvious that this breed is rapidly coming to the front again.

1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick xciv. 465 Plum-pudding is the term bestowed upon certain fragmentary parts of the whale's flesh.

1904 Sci. Amer. Suppl. 5 Mar. 23551/3 A muscular, fibrous substance known as ‘plum pudding’ permeates the blubber of the tongue of these two species of whales.

1900 Los Angeles Times 1 Jan. 1/5 Boers actively bombard Ladysmith..Plum pudding shot at the Britishers.

1928 E. Blunden Undertones of War 51 Now more serious and immediate omens of ordeal appeared in the mounds of trench mortar bombs—‘plum puddings’ or ‘footballs’, steely and shining.

1933 H. R. Williams Gallant Company 71 Next day a large fatigue party of New Zealanders went through our trench, heavily laden with Stokes-mortar ammunition and the awkward ‘plum-puddings’.

1907 Current Lit. Oct. 443/1 Whether it consists of a central body surrounded by a ring of electrons or whether the electrons are immersed in the central body, like plums in a pudding, are alternatives of which anyone may, at present, take his choice.]

1932 B. L. Clarke & E. Hendrick Marvels Mod. Chem. i. iv. 46 The Bohr atom is Thomson's plum-pudding affair decorated and garnished by judicious application of the Quantum Theory.

1980 T. Nickles Sci. Disc. 312 The popular, and popularized, ‘plum-pudding’ model of the atom created by J. J. Thomson forms a conceptual bridge to the theory of Lewis.

2001 D. A. Bantz in O. Sacks Uncle Tungsten xxiii. 289 Atoms, Rutherford had realized, could not be a homogenous jelly of positivity stuck with electrons like raisins (as J. J. Thomson had suggested, in his ‘plum pudding’ model of the atom).

1852 Punch 17 Jan. 24/2 I knows the dawg, 'm—arf-spannel, and the rest cocker-lurcher, bull terrier, and a touch of the plum-pudding dog.

1907 Washington Post 15 Jan. 5/5 He was sent over to New York,..where he was just about as much use as a plum-pudding dog under a tally-ho coach.

1997 Columbian (Nexis) 3 Apr. 3 I would love to have a plum pudding dog as a pet.

1908 Times 2 Nov. 3/6 ‘Plum pudding’ mahogany is employed, with green carpets and blinds.

2002 2001 Rev. (Ann. Rep. National Art Coll. Fund) 21 (caption) (advt.) A rare and attractive Sheraton period ‘Carlton House’ writing table in ‘plum pudding’ mahogany.

1739 C. Labelye Short Acct. Piers Westm. Bridge 53 Stones commonly call'd Plumb-pudding Stones.

1784 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 74 378 It had the appearance of breccia marble or plum-pudding stone, for the fragments had been broken and rammed into the cask with an iron mall.

1813 H. Davy Elements Agric. Chem. iv. 170 Plum-pudding stone, consisting of pebbles cemented by a ferruginous or siliceous cement.

1887 M. Linskill In Exchange for Soul I. xvi. 171 Wondering if this or that pebble were the celebrated ‘plum-pudding stone’ of Ulvstan Bight.

1978 Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. 68 71/2 Wacke (conglomerate), known as plum pudding stone by the inhabitants, spread from the northeast to the southwest [of the region of Boston, Massachusetts].

1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick xvii. 94 Some sailors who had just come from a plum-pudding voyage as they called it.