pease pudding

9.6

A thick dish of boiled split peas that people often eat with meat

noun
/piːz ˈpʊdɪŋ/

: pudín de guisantes

(15.) Jigg's Dinner is a traditional Newfoundland Sunday food, including boiled salty beef, cabbages, carrots, pease pudding, etc.

Examples

At the old-fashioned diner, I ordered a plate of meat and two sides: mashed potatoes and pease pudding.
For special occasions, my grandmother always prepares pease pudding to go with the main course.
Pease pudding is a popular side dish served with pease pudding in many British households.

How Smooth

pease pudding

9.6

pea soup

3 1.7

mushy peas

1 4.5

Surface Forms

pease pudding singular

pease puddings plural

Morphology

pease + pudding

The compound is literally built from 'pease' (peas) + 'pudding' (a dense savory dish), so a learner who knows both words can infer it denotes a pea-based pudding. This follows common, transparent food-naming patterns (ingredient + preparation), making the meaning directly derivable despite 'pease' being archaic.

Etymology

Pease pudding comes from old cooking: peas were boiled and mashed into a thick pudding that people called pease. So the name means a 'pudding' made from peas and still refers to the savory dish of boiled split peas.