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PLUM PUDDING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does plum pudding mean? 

PLUM PUDDING (noun)
  The noun PLUM PUDDING has 1 sense:

1. a rich steamed or boiled pudding that resembles cakeplay

  Familiarity information: PLUM PUDDING used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PLUM PUDDING (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A rich steamed or boiled pudding that resembles cake

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

Christmas pudding; plum pudding

Hypernyms ("plum pudding" is a kind of...):

pudding (any of various soft sweet desserts thickened usually with flour and baked or boiled or steamed)


 Context examples 


So was the plum pudding, which melted in one's mouth, likewise the jellies, in which Amy reveled like a fly in a honeypot.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)



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