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- noun Plural form of
hasty-pudding .
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Examples
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Nevertheless, it stood through a great many hasty-puddings.
Walden 2004
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Aunt Jenny never sat at her table without dinner enough for six more, - and hers were no commonplace dinners; no hasty-puddings, no saleratus bread, no soda cakes, no frozen-starch ice-cream, no modern shorthand recipes, but genuine old Virginia cooking.
A girl's life in Virginia before the war, Letitia M Burwell 1895
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The world was here in full-blown variety; sublime, languid peers, needy placemen, hilarious foxhunters, brave tradesmen, aspiring mechanics, poor good-for-nothings; sober housewives, whose thoughts were still of their husbands 'shirt-fronts and their hasty-puddings, and who never dreamt that they were impugning their sobriety by attending a play; and above all, fine ladies armed with their fans and their essences.
Girlhood and Womanhood The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes Sarah Tytler 1870
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Nevertheless, it stood through a great many hasty-puddings.
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Nevertheless, it stood through a great many hasty-puddings.
Walden~ Chapter 13 (historical) Henry David Thoreau 1854
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Nevertheless, it stood through a great many hasty-puddings.
Walden Henry David Thoreau 1839
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