black pudding

noun

chiefly British

Examples of black pudding in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The episode involves a character attacking others with a bowl of black pudding and another defending himself with a bagpipe. Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Feb. 2024 The dish’s centerpiece is the black pudding—a sausage made by creating a mixture of pork or beef, pig’s blood, and grains. Shauna Stuart | Sstuart@al.com, al, 24 July 2023 Guests can get a traditional English breakfast, complete with eggs, black pudding, beans, bacon, and more before 10:30 a.m. (along with American-style breakfast choices), or opt for fish and chips, toad in the hole, bangers and mash, and other British eats for lunch and dinner. Elizabeth Rhodes, Travel + Leisure, 3 Apr. 2023 Guests can get a traditional English breakfast, complete with eggs, black pudding, beans, bacon, and more before 10:30 a.m. (along with American breakfast choices), or opt for fish and chips, toad in the hole, and other British eats for lunch and dinner. Elizabeth Rhodes, Travel + Leisure, 5 Sep. 2021 The hearty meal includes two sausages, two slices of bacon, two eggs, black pudding, white pudding, mushrooms, tomato, baked beans and two slices of toast for $15.75. Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 14 Aug. 2021 Creative bites, such as a black pudding tart ($11) and corned beef and cabbage roll ($14), are also available. Janelle Bitker, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Mar. 2021 The dynamite combination of clams and black pudding (blood sausage) married land and sea, the Christmas spices and iodine tang of the pudding and the briny sweetness of the clams knitted together with apple, onions, parsley, and a cider gastrique. Hannah Goldfield, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2023 Serving as the base of the dish and topped with the pig and black pudding, these unctuous, creamy beans have bits of pig trotter floating in them, bringing even more richness to the party. Jeremy Repanich, Robb Report, 29 Dec. 2022

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Word History

First Known Use

15th century, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of black pudding was in the 15th century

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“Black pudding.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/black%20pudding. Accessed 19 Apr. 2024.

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