Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

magic pudding

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.58 in modern English

Syllables: mag-ic pud-ding
IPA

22

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A limitless or endlessly replenished resource.

Example Sentences

"2006, Australian House of Representatives, Parliamentary debates (Hansard), House of Representatives, Volume 286, page 8, Medibank Private is a magic pudding which would make Norman Lindsay proud."
"Is this a magic pudding? A CSIRO policy economist who has worked with the modelling, Dr Steve Hatfield Dodds, said: “It's not so much a magic pudding as long-term, carefully planned structural adjustment.”"
"Government was not a burden that you had to pay for; it was a magic pudding; you could cut slice after slice and there was always more."
"Unfortunately, in a world that prefers magic puddings, technological bullets and simple solutions (preferably implemented painlessly by someone else) achieving sustainability is extremely complex."

Etymology

A reference to the title character in Norman Lindsay's 1918 children′s book The Magic Pudding.

Inflected Forms

magic puddings (plural)

Synonyms

widow's cruse

Questions

What does magic pudding mean?: A limitless or endlessly replenished resource.
Where does magic pudding come from?: A reference to the title character in Norman Lindsay's 1918 children′s book The Magic Pudding.

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