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单词 pudding-ball
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pudding-balln.

Brit. /ˈpʊdɪŋbɔːl/, U.S. /ˈpʊdɪŋˌbɔl/, Australian English /ˈpʊdɪŋbɔːl/
Forms:

α. 1800s– puddinba, 2000s– puddenba.

β. 1800s– pudding-ball.

Origin: Probably a borrowing from Jagara. Etymon: Jagara budinba.
Etymology: Probably < Jagara budinba. In β forms showing folk-etymological alteration after pudding n. and ball n.1Jagara is an extinct language formerly spoken in the Brisbane area in Queensland.
Australian.
An edible marine fish resembling a mullet; esp. the flathead or sea mullet, Mugil cephalus.
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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > [noun] > suborder Mugiloidei (mullets) > family Mugilidae > genus Mugil > member of (mullet)
mullet1393
mugila1398
mowel?a1500
harder1658
springer1700
kanae1820
calipeva1832
pudding-ball1847
macho1882
1847 J. D. Lang Cooksland iv. 96 The species of fish that are commonest in the Bay [sc. Moreton Bay] are mullet, bream, puddinba (a native word corrupted by the colonists into pudding-ball).
1945 S. J. Baker Austral. Lang. xii. 214 Popular fish-names peculiar to the Australian include..puddingball.
2001 J. Robinson Voices of Queensland i. 28 Pudding-ball , also puddenba, puddinba. The marine fish Mugil cephalus , commonly called the sea mullet.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

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pudding-ball
More fully poddy mullet. Any of several fish of the mullet family ( Mugilidae); esp. the sand mullet, Myxus elongatus, and the young of the striped mullet, Mugil cephalus (also called pudding-ball).
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1890 Act (State of Victoria) 54 Vict. No. 1093. Sched. 2 Sand-mullet or poddies.
1941 Bulletin (Sydney) 29 Oct. 14/1 We caught two pickle-jar full o' poddy mullet.
1977 Commerc. Fish Austral. (Dept. Primary Industry) 50 Sea mullet, also known as poddy or grey mullet, are distributed worldwide.
2005 Sunday Tel. (Sydney) (Nexis) 17 Apr. 90 Jason Newby reports huge flathead falling to live poddy mullet in Swansea channel.
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