Pudding tame

Jonathon Green slang at BLUEYONDER.CO.UK
Thu Oct 4 08:49:37 UTC 2001


The EDD has _pudding time_: dinner time; fig. the nick of time.
Pudding, in this context (agricultural). being the _first_ course rather
than the last.
It might aslso be worth checking P&I Opie: _Lore & Language of
Schoolchildren_ wherein many such rhymes appear.

Jonathon Green



More information about the Ads-l mailing list