Obs. [f. BLOOD sb., app. after pudding; cf. BLACKING, LIVERING.] A black-pudding.
c. 1460. Towneley Myst., 89. Oure mete now begyns … Two blodynges, I trow, a liveryng betwene.
1562. Apol. Priv. Masse (1850), 10. Will ye inhibit the folks to eat bloodings, or pigeons, or capons, such as are killed by stifling?
1639. Horn & Robotham, Gate Lang. Unl., xxxvi. The pudding-maker … maketh puddings and sawsages … chitterlings, liverings, bluddings.
1783. Ainsworth, Lat. Dict. (Morell), I. A blooding, or blood pudding, apexabo.
