in the pudding club
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.60 in modern English
28
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
4
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
Etymology
* Possibly derived from the round shape of a pregnant abdomen, resembling that of a traditional boiled pudding. * An alternative suggestion is an association with dialectal English pod (“belly”), German puddig (“swollen”), Westphalian Low German Puddek (“lump, pudding”).
Usage
- Australian usage
- New Zealand usage
- British usage
- Colloquial
- Slang