"spotted dog" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "spotted dogs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "spotted dog (countable and uncountable, plural spotted dogs)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "British English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1905, Mabel Barnes-Grundy, The Vacillations of Hazel, page 173",
          "text": "\" Are there any raisins in the store-cupboard ? \" I next asked weakly. \" I noticed there were not many in the spotted dog pudding we had the other day.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1906, The Pacific Monthly: A Magazine of Education and Progress",
          "text": "Fine—I've got a spotted dog about baked done in the oven, now.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1962, Denis Glover, Hot Water Sailor, page 31",
          "text": "If you don't know what spotted dog is, it's one of those beastly steamed pudding things with an occasional raisin in it that boarding schools feed their inmates on because it's cheap, not in the least nourishing, and nearly guaranteed to keep them contented until tea time.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1968, Bulletin - Volumes 4-6, page 76",
          "text": "The source of the trouble was the spotted dog. Spotted dog is a sort of pudding, made from dough with currants embedded.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A steamed pudding with embedded currants or raisins"
      ],
      "id": "en-spotted_dog-en-noun-QJ-zjmSn",
      "links": [
        [
          "steamed pudding",
          "steamed pudding"
        ],
        [
          "currant",
          "currant"
        ],
        [
          "raisin",
          "raisin"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(UK) A steamed pudding with embedded currants or raisins"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "sense": "steamed pudding",
          "word": "spotted dick"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "UK",
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "spotted dog"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "spotted dogs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "spotted dog (countable and uncountable, plural spotted dogs)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "British English",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1905, Mabel Barnes-Grundy, The Vacillations of Hazel, page 173",
          "text": "\" Are there any raisins in the store-cupboard ? \" I next asked weakly. \" I noticed there were not many in the spotted dog pudding we had the other day.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1906, The Pacific Monthly: A Magazine of Education and Progress",
          "text": "Fine—I've got a spotted dog about baked done in the oven, now.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1962, Denis Glover, Hot Water Sailor, page 31",
          "text": "If you don't know what spotted dog is, it's one of those beastly steamed pudding things with an occasional raisin in it that boarding schools feed their inmates on because it's cheap, not in the least nourishing, and nearly guaranteed to keep them contented until tea time.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1968, Bulletin - Volumes 4-6, page 76",
          "text": "The source of the trouble was the spotted dog. Spotted dog is a sort of pudding, made from dough with currants embedded.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A steamed pudding with embedded currants or raisins"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "steamed pudding",
          "steamed pudding"
        ],
        [
          "currant",
          "currant"
        ],
        [
          "raisin",
          "raisin"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(UK) A steamed pudding with embedded currants or raisins"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "UK",
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "sense": "steamed pudding",
      "word": "spotted dick"
    }
  ],
  "word": "spotted dog"
}