Definition of "hasty-pudding" [hasty-pudding]

• Alternative spelling of hasty pudding. (noun)

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• "They were so stupid that they gave into the most shallow ambuscades and artifices: witness that well-known ogre, who, because Jack cut open the hasty-pudding, instantly ripped open his own stupid waistcoat and interior."
• "I believe these card and dice ogres have died away almost as entirely as the hasty-pudding giants whom Tom Thumb overcame."
• "In their early days, the present generation of dalesmen fed almost exclusively upon oatmeal; either as ‘hasty-pudding,’ — that is,"