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hasty pudding

hasty pudding

8.0
A hot sweet porridge you make by boiling cornmeal or oats with milk and usually eat with syrup
  • noun
  • /ˈheɪsti ˈpʊdɪŋ/
  • Archaic
translation icon : pudín rápido
  • I live poorly with regard to the comforts of life: most of my diet consists of boiled corn, hasty pudding, etc.

Examples

  • For breakfast, she often prepared hasty pudding with a sprinkle of cinnamon and brown sugar.

  • They served hasty pudding at the festival, and everyone loved its sweet, comforting taste.

  • Mother and I make the hasty pudding.

    Fiction book (2000)

  • I remember enjoying warm hasty pudding with maple syrup on cold winter mornings.

Synonyms

pudding
vshasty pudding
41 1.0

A soft sweet dessert made with milk and sugar

is a hot sweet dish boiled from cornmeal or flour with milk or water

Surface Forms

hasty pudding singular
hasty puddings plural

Morphology

hasty + pudding

The compound's meaning is directly inferable from 'hasty' (quick) + 'pudding' (a sweet cooked dessert): a pudding made quickly. Although it can refer to a specific traditional cornmeal dish, an average B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily understand it as a quickly made dessert, so the construction is compositionally transparent.

Etymology

Hasty pudding got its name from how cooks made it long ago: they mixed cornmeal or oatmeal with milk or water and boiled it quickly. So hasty means 'made quickly' and pudding means 'simple boiled dish', which is why the phrase now refers to a hot, sweet porridge-like dessert.