hasty pudding

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noun
  1. New England. cornmeal mush.

  2. Chiefly British. a dish made of flour or oatmeal stirred into seasoned boiling water or milk and quickly cooked.

Origin of hasty pudding

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First recorded in 1590–1600

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How to use hasty pudding in a sentence

  • She hung a pot with some hasty pudding in it over the fire, warmed it up, and fried some pork in the skillet.

    Ben Comee | M. J. (Michael Joseph) Canavan

British Dictionary definitions for hasty pudding

hasty pudding

noun
  1. British a simple pudding made from milk thickened with tapioca, semolina, etc, and sweetened

  2. US a mush of cornmeal, served with treacle sugar

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