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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Cornmeal mush served with maple syrup, brown sugar, or other sweetening.
- noun Chiefly British A mush made with flour or oatmeal.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A thick batter or pudding made of milk and flour boiled quickly together; also, oatmeal and water boiled together; porridge.
- noun Specifically, in the United States, a batter made of Indian meal stirred into boiling water, boiled till thick enough to be palatable, and eaten with milk, or sometimes with butter or syrup; mush.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- United States A thick batter pudding made of Indian meal stirred into boiling water; mush.
- engraving A batter or pudding made of flour or oatmeal, stirred into boiling water or milk.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a simple
pudding orporridge ofgrains cooked in milk or water
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun cornmeal mush served with sweetening (maple syrup or brown sugar)
- noun sweetened porridge made of tapioca or flour or oatmeal cooked quickly in milk or water
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MaryW commented on the word hasty pudding
"They ate 'Hasty Pudding,' balls of duff made of flour and wart and flavored with shreds of beef."
Tim Severin, In Search of Robinson Crusoe (2003)
October 31, 2015