HASTY PUDDING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hasty pudding mean? 

• HASTY PUDDING (noun)
  The noun HASTY PUDDING has 2 senses:

1. sweetened porridge made of tapioca or flour or oatmeal cooked quickly in milk or water

2. cornmeal mush served with sweetening (maple syrup or brown sugar)

  Familiarity information: HASTY PUDDING used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HASTY PUDDING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Sweetened porridge made of tapioca or flour or oatmeal cooked quickly in milk or water

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("hasty pudding" is a kind of...):

porridge (soft food made by boiling oatmeal or other meal or legumes in water or milk until thick)

Domain region:

Britain; Great Britain; U.K.; UK; United Kingdom; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; 'Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Cornmeal mush served with sweetening (maple syrup or brown sugar)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("hasty pudding" is a kind of...):

cornmeal mush; mush (cornmeal boiled in water)

Domain region:

New England (a region of northeastern United States comprising Maine and New Hampshire and Vermont and Massachusetts and Rhode Island and Connecticut)