plum pudding
noun1
A pudding, cooked by boiling or steaming, containing a large amount of dried fruit.
- In 1914, the Hendon and Finchley Times published a piece titled 'People who have no Christmas'. An engine-driver's comment was this: "For many years now I have never enjoyed a real Christmas. My engine has claimed me on this day, and my only regret is that I am not attached to a slow goods train, so that I could snatch time to eat some plum-pudding."2022 December 14, David Turner, “The Edwardian Christmas getaway...”, in RAIL, number 972, page 35:
- Derived terms
- plum pudding breed, plum pudding dog, plum-puddinger, plum pudding mahogany, plum pudding model, plum pudding stone, plum pudding voyage