clootie
- noun
- /ˈkluːti/
- Literature
:
pudín escocés
- My grandmother makes a delicious clootie every Christmas.
Examples
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The recipe calls for the pudding mixture to be wrapped in a clootie before boiling.
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For Hogmanay, her grandmother always made a delicious clootie filled with raisins and spices.
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At the Scottish festival, visitors could sample a traditional clootie alongside other regional dishes.
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Have you ever tasted clooties before?
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For Hogmanay, her grandmother always made a delicious clootie filled with raisins and spices.
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The recipe calls for the pudding mixture to be wrapped in a clootie before boiling.
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At the Scottish festival, visitors could sample a traditional clootie alongside other regional dishes.
Synonyms
4
9.9
A steamed or boiled pudding with dried fruit like raisins
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2.5
A rich sweet cooked with dried fruit and spices and served at Christmas in Britain
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9.1
A steamed British pudding that contains dried fruit and often comes with custard
A sweet or savory dish cooked by steaming, often made from flour and eggs
Surface Forms
Morphology
clootie = cloot (semi-transparent) = cloot + ie
The form is built from the Scots base 'cloot' plus '-ie', and the pudding name is motivated by the cloth used in cooking, but the lexicalized food sense is not fully transparent.
Etymology
Clootie also names a traditional Scottish pudding and the cloth it is cooked in; it comes from Scots cloot meaning 'cloth' or 'rag', so the pudding is named after the cloth used to wrap and boil it.