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Definition of Hasty pudding

1. Noun. Sweetened porridge made of tapioca or flour or oatmeal cooked quickly in milk or water.

2. Noun. Cornmeal mush served with sweetening (maple syrup or brown sugar).

Definition of Hasty pudding

1. Noun. a simple pudding or porridge of grains cooked in milk or water ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hasty Pudding

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Literary usage of Hasty pudding

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau (1873)
"tbem, where we have pitched our tent for a night, and boiled our hasty-pudding amid the clouds. As late as 1724 there was no house on the north side of the ..."

2. American Poems (1625-1892) by Walter Cochrane Bronson (1912)
"I sing the sweets I know, the charms I feel, 15 My morning incense and my evening meal, The sweets of Hasty-Pudding. Come, dear bowl. ..."

3. The Universal Anthology: A Collection of the Best Literature, Ancient by Richard Garnett, Leon Vallée, Alois Brandl (1899)
"... pointed toward him with the forefinger of his left hand, and said in a low voice to La Vieuville: — " The Vendee has found a head I " THE hasty pudding. ..."

4. The Wit and Humor of Colonial Days (1607-1800) by Carl Holliday (1912)
"Who has not read his hasty pudding? " I sing the sweets I know, the charms I feel, My morning incense and my evening meal, The sweets of hasty pudding. ..."

5. Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English: Containing Words from the by Thomas Wright (1904)
"hasty pudding. MEAL-MOUTHED, adj. Delicate mouthed. MEALS,«. Mould; soil. North. MEAL-SEED, s. Husks of oats. MEAL'S-MEAT, s. Meat enough for a meal. ..."

6. The Boys of '76: A History of the Battles of the Revolution by Charles Carleton Coffin (1899)
"The Cow-boys had been there during the night and robbed the lone female occupant of almost every thing. She could only give them some hasty- pudding, ..."

7. The Poets of Connecticut: With Biographical Sketches by Charles William Everest (1873)
"hasty pudding.* Ye Alps audacious, through the heavens that rise, To cramp the day and hide me from the skies ; Ye Gallic flags, that, o'er their heights ..."

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