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Pud(d)in(g, n. Also: -yn(g, -ine, -ein, -en; powding. [ME poding (c1305), puddyng (Piers Plowman), e.m.E. pudding (Shakesp.), of uncertain origin.]Found earlier in nicknames or surnames: 12.. Reg. Dunferm. 222.
Genealogia Bridini Puddyng 1293 Reg. Episc. Glasg. I 210.
Filium quondam Ricardi Hangpudyng

1. a. A pudding of the haggis variety made of the stomach or part of the entrails of a sheep or other animal, stuffed with oatmeal, suet and inferior meat or offal chopped or minced, and boiled. b. The stomach or entrails of an animal prepared to serve as the skin of such a pudding.Also face to a pudden as a term of abuse.(1) a1500 Henr. Fab. (O.U.P.) 727.
Swa ȝe will giff me leif To eit puddingis or laip ane lyttill blude c1500-c1512 Dunb. lxxxii 25 (R).
And at ȝour trone bot … Pansches, pudingis of Iok & Iames 1590 Black Bk. Taymouth 301.
To the mairtis puddeinis ij lip[pie of meal] a1598 Ferg. Prov. MS No. 1343.
Tish tash puddings is no flesh 1602 Shetland Sheriff Ct. (ed.) 9.
James Frissall is dempt to quyt himselff and his hous of the stowth of certaine puddeinis mele [etc.] 1610 Dunferm. B. Rec. II 73.
Discharging all persouns fra wesching of yarne fische puddings painchis … at the well 1617 Edinb. B. Rec. VI 156.
And to bring thair salt beif, puddinis and uther sic lyk wairis Ib. 165.
Those quha sellis puddingis, painschis, scheipheidis and suche uther wairis a1628 Carmichael Prov. No. 1258.
Puddins and paramours wald be hetlie handelit Ib. Nos. 46, 850. 1641 Ayrsh. Coll. 2 Ser. II 80.
That na personne … sall wash at the leid betwixt the dam and the mylne any foul claithis, puddings, lynnt 1659 R. Moray Lett. fol. 341.
Thankes become superfluous as puddings do when there is better cheer 1698 Marchmont 183.
[Bill of Fare]: Boyld powding Ib. 185.
[Bill of Fare]: Could bark powding(2) 1645 Kinghorn Kirk S. 48.
Duch Willie, Willie litestar, … cucold lowne face to a pudden

c. As a type of something worthless. c1530-40 Stewart Bann. MS 140a/22.
Peild priclous of ane pudding pryce

d. In for cake(s) and pudding, = for reward, for gain. 1643 Bk. Pasquils 144.
You courted God for caikes and pudding 1681 Colvil Whig's Suppl. i 93.
He turn'd his coat for cake and pudding

e. With defining elements.Blood pudding (in the mod. dial. a savoury sausage made of oatmeal or flour, suet, seasoning and blood), quhyt pudden (in the mod. dial. an oatmeal sausage containing fat but no blood), and sollen goose puden. 1602 Shetland Sheriff Ct. (ed.) 6.
To quyt hir selff of the stowth of thrie quhyt puddeins 1603 Ib. 67.
Quhyt puddenis 1681 Fawside Coal Compt. 72.
A sollen goose puden to the colt 00:09:0 c1695 Satire on Stair in Bk. Pasquils (1827) i 45.
[He] with blood pudings lac'd

f. attrib. Resembling a pudding. c1460 Alex. (Taym.) 10373.
Fatt pudding leggis vnlufely made

g. comb.Pudding-fillar, one employed to stuff puddings; pudding-eiter (= -eater), as a term of contempt; pudding-wife, a woman who sells puddings.Also, in Edinburgh, pudding-mercat.(1) c1500-c1512 Dunb. xiv 69.
Sic pudding-fillaris, discending down frome millaris a1585 Polwart Flyt. 762 (T).
Blunt bleitter, padok speitter, pudding eitter [H. puddein eatter], pervers 1681 Edinb. B. Rec. XI 9.
For consenting to the extrusion of the pudding wyfes from the Cowgait(2) 1565 Edinb. B. Rec. III 209.
That the panche, pudding and scheipheid merkat be transporttit to the fut of Snawdounis Clois 1581 Ib. IV 208.
The pudden mercat and beir mercatt to be remouit of the calsay and placeit in the flesche mercat placis 1616 Ib. VI 143.
Puddine mercatt 1650–1 Ib. VIII 428.
For cloissing the duires of the pudding mercat, being brokin upe be the sojours 1675 Ib. X 250. 1676 Ib. 283.
The pudding mercat shall be now turned into a corne mercat Ib. 280.

2. pl. and coll. The bowels, entrails, guts (of a person or animal).pl. 1530 Lynd. Test. Pap. 1157.
Tak thare, said he, the puddyngis, for thy parte 1612 Reg. Privy C. IX 513.
[He] strak him throw the body, quhairby his pudynis come furth of his bowellis 1615 Crim. Trials III 362.
Be streking of him with ane lance-stalff in the bellie, and gorring his puddingis 1681 Colvil Whig's Suppl. (1751) 15.
When rhime bursts out from breast inrag'd Like t[ur]ds from puddings overcharg'dcoll. 1570 Sat. P. x 17.
Ane woundit man … schot throw pudding and panche