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PUDDING TIME

Definition: PUDDING TIME

PUDDING TIME

1. (a) The time of dinner, pudding being formerly the dish first eaten. [Obs.] --Johnson. (b) The nick of time; critical time. [Obs.] Mars, that still protects the stout, In pudding time came to his aid. --Hudibras.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Specialty Definition: PUDDING TIME

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Slang in 1811

PUDDING TIME. In good time, or at the beginning of a meal: pudding formerly making the first dish. To give the crows a pudding; to die. You must eat some cold pudding, to settle your love. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms within Context: PUDDING TIME

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Punctuality

Adverb: on time, punctually, at the deadline, precisely, exactly; right on time, to the minute; in time; in good time, in military time, in pudding time, in due time; time enough; with no time to spare, by a hair's breadth.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Anagrams: PUDDING TIME

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-d-e-g-i-i-m-n-p-t-u"

-3 letters: deputing, impeding, impinged, impudent, impugned, imputing, mutinied, unpitied, untidied.

-4 letters: dieting, dumping, editing, ignited, impinge, imputed, indited, iteming, minuted, mudding, mueddin, mutined, pigment, pinetum, pinguid, pudding, tedding, temping, tumping.

-5 letters: dieing, dinged, dinted, dipnet, duding, dumped, dunged, dunite, dunted, duping, gimped, guided, guimpe, gunite, ignite, impend, imping, impugn, impute, indite, indium, indued, intime.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: PUDDING TIME


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

50 55 44 44 49 4E 47      54 49 4D 45

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010000 01010101 01000100 01000100 01001001 01001110 01000111 00100000 01010100 01001001 01001101 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#85 &#68 &#68 &#73 &#78 &#71 &#32 &#84 &#73 &#77 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0055 0044 0044 0049 004E 0047      0054 0049 004D 0045

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

50553838434841254434739

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Anagrams
3. Orthography
4. Bibliography


  

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