hasty pudding

1. 1.

   sweetened porridge made of tapioca or flour or oatmeal cooked quickly in milk or water

   Broaderporridge

   United Kingdom

2. 2.

   cornmeal mush served with sweetening (maple syrup or brown sugar)

   Broadermush

   New England

Questions about hasty pudding

What does hasty pudding mean?

hasty pudding means "sweetened porridge made of tapioca or flour or oatmeal cooked quickly in milk or water". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

Is hasty pudding a common word?

hasty pudding is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.