pudde

Look at other dictionaries:

• Bergen — /berr geuhn/; for 1 also Nor. /berdd geuhn/, n. 1. Edgar, 1903 78, U.S. ventriloquist. 2. a city in SW Norway, on the Atlantic Ocean. 213,594. 3. a male given name. * * * City (pop., 2000 est.: municipality, 229,496), southwestern Norway. It is… …   Universalium

• Pudner — There are two possible origins for this unusual name. The first is from the Olde English pre 7th century pudde a word meaning stout or round and given as a nickname to a maker of pies a butcher. The second is a variant spelling of the French pied …   Surnames reference

• Puffett — Recorded as Paffett, Poffet, Puffet, Puffett, Puffitt etc.. This unusual surname is a patronymic derivative son of Puff of the Olde English pre 7th Century personal nickname Pude . The original meaning was a small, round, jolly person as in John… …   Surnames reference

• pudding — (n.) c.1300, a kind of sausage: the stomach or one of the entrails of a pig, sheep, etc., stuffed with minced meat, suet, seasoning, boiled and kept till needed, perhaps from a West Germanic stem *pud to swell (Cf. O.E. puduc a wen, Westphalian… …   Etymology dictionary