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Definition: PUDDING TIME |
PUDDING TIME1. (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. |
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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. | |
| Context | Synonyms 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. | |
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. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 55 44 44 49 4E 47      54 49 4D 45 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01010101 01000100 01000100 01001001 01001110 01000111 00100000 01010100 01001001 01001101 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P U D D I N G   T I M E |
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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