dog in a blanket

plural dogs in blankets · alternative dog-in-a-blanket · alternative dog-in-the-blanket

1. UKarchaicslangSynonym of roly-poly (“a kind of steamed pudding”).

   Nasty Roche had big hands. He called the Friday pudding dog-in-the-blanket.

   1916, James Joyce, chapter I, in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: B[enjamin] W. Huebsch, →OCLC

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   The dog-in-a-blanket making its appearance, Clara cut three beauteous slices, with spiral rings of black currant alternating with suet.

   1867, Charlotte Mary Yonge, The Six Cushions, page 72

   Synonyms: roly-poly