<span class="searchmatch">magic</span> <span class="searchmatch">puddings</span> plural of <span class="searchmatch">magic</span> <span class="searchmatch">pudding</span>...
character in Norman Lindsay's 1918 children′s book The <span class="searchmatch">Magic</span> <span class="searchmatch">Pudding</span>. <span class="searchmatch">magic</span> <span class="searchmatch">pudding</span> (plural <span class="searchmatch">magic</span> <span class="searchmatch">puddings</span>) (figurative) A limitless or endlessly replenished...
<span class="searchmatch">magic</span> packet <span class="searchmatch">magic</span> potion <span class="searchmatch">magic</span> <span class="searchmatch">pudding</span> <span class="searchmatch">magic</span> realist <span class="searchmatch">magic</span> roundabout <span class="searchmatch">magic</span> sauce <span class="searchmatch">magic</span> shop <span class="searchmatch">magic</span> slate <span class="searchmatch">magic</span> spell <span class="searchmatch">magic</span> string <span class="searchmatch">magic</span> touch <span class="searchmatch">magic</span> truffle...
199: Steamed and boiled <span class="searchmatch">puddings</span> have formed the basic diet of country people in northern Europe for centuries. Early <span class="searchmatch">puddings</span> consisted of the scoured...
steak-and-kidney <span class="searchmatch">pudding</span> steak-and-kidney <span class="searchmatch">pudding</span> steak and kidney <span class="searchmatch">pudding</span> (countable and uncountable, plural steak and kidney <span class="searchmatch">puddings</span>) A dish resembling...
plum-duff (plural plum-duffs) A plum <span class="searchmatch">pudding</span>. 1918, Norman Lindsay, The <span class="searchmatch">Magic</span> <span class="searchmatch">Pudding</span>, page 25: But late one night we wakes in fright / To see by a pale...
decorative button with the motif of a thistle. 1918, Norman Lindsay, The <span class="searchmatch">Magic</span> <span class="searchmatch">Pudding</span>, page 118: “It's almost as bad as swallowing thistle buttons.”...
(informal) A narrow escape; a close shave. 1918, Norman Lindsay, The <span class="searchmatch">Magic</span> <span class="searchmatch">Pudding</span>, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 142: "My word," he said, breathlessly...
shellbacks) A worldly sailor. Synonym: barnacle 1918, Norman Lindsay, The <span class="searchmatch">Magic</span> <span class="searchmatch">Pudding</span>, page 161: “Take that, for being a pumpkin-headed old shellback.” A...
(derogatory) Lacking intelligence; soft in the head. 1918, Norman Lindsay, The <span class="searchmatch">Magic</span> <span class="searchmatch">Pudding</span>, page 88: [T]he Puddin' merely laughed scornfully, and called Bill a...