spotted dick

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   a suet pudding containing currants

   Broadersuet pudding

   United Kingdom

Questions about spotted dick

What does spotted dick mean?

spotted dick means "a suet pudding containing currants".

Is spotted dick a common word?

spotted dick is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.