blood pudding
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6.7
- noun
- /blʌd ˈpʊdɪŋ/
- UK
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morcilla
- In the Roseau Saturday market, I bought spicy blood pudding and ate it standing up in a little bar in the market's arcade.
- eat blood pudding
They had a blood pudding one that the main base actually was chicken blood and livers.
- They had a blood pudding one that the main base actually was chicken blood and livers.
- Actually, cup of dirt is like blood pudding, but a wedding cake, that's just tiramisu.
Examples
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It was warm and full, like a stuffed bag of blood pudding.
Fiction book (1997) -
Called boudin noir in France, blutwurst in Germany, and morcilla in Spain, blood pudding, when prepared and spiced right, should not have too much of a metallic aftertaste.
Blog text (34) -
I said I was just sitting down for some of your blood pudding.
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The person who did not fall ill ate only blood pudding.
Academic text (2012) -
He helped me collect the blood, and I made blood pudding that morning.
Blog text (17) -
Ate blood pudding on a recent cruise every morning; steak and kidney pie is excellent.
Blog text (14) -
He bought them sauerkraut, blood pudding, cider, and peanuts in a pavilion draped with cedar boughs.
Fiction book (1998) -
At the local market, I enjoyed a serving of blood pudding fried to perfection.
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I ordered a traditional breakfast that included blood pudding, sausages, and eggs.
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While visiting Ireland, I tried blood pudding for the first time and found it surprisingly delicious.
Synonyms
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4.1
A dark sausage made from cooked animal blood, fat, and other ingredients
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6.5
A dark sausage made with pig's blood, fat, and oats that you cook and eat
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9.9
A German sausage made from pork and blood with spices
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning—a food made from blood and other ingredients—is directly and compositionally derivable from the constituents 'blood' (the red bodily fluid) + 'pudding' (a dense savory food), so the phrase transparently names a pudding containing blood. This is a literal, cross-linguistic food construction (e.g., black pudding/morcilla), so a B1 learner who knows both words will very likely infer the meaning.
Etymology
Blood pudding comes from old cooking. Cooks mixed animal blood with fat and grain and boiled it into a soft roll called a pudding, so the name now means a dark cooked 'sausage' made from blood.