Hasty Pudding, subs. (common).—1. A bastard. For synonyms, see Bloody Escape.
2. (old).—A muddy road; a quag.
1811. Lexicon Balatronicum, s.v. The way through Wandsworth is quite a hasty pudding.
Hat, subs. (Cambridge Univ.).—1. A gentleman commoner. [Who is permitted to wear a hat instead of the regulation mortar-board.] Also Gold Hatband.
1628. Earle, Microcosmographie. ‘Young Gentleman of the Universitie’ (ed., Arber, 1868). His companion is ordinarily some stale fellow that has beene notorious for an ingle to gold hatbands, whom hee admires at first, afterwards scornes.
1803. Gradus ad Cantabrigiam. Hat Commoner; the son of a Nobleman, who wears the gown of a Fellow Commoner with a hat.
1830. Lytton, Paul Clifford, ch. xxxii. I knew intimately all the hats in the University.
1841. Lytton, Night and Morning, bk. I., ch. i. He had certainly nourished the belief that some one of the hats or tinsel gowns—i.e., young lords or fellow-commoners, with whom he was on such excellent terms … would do something for him in the way of a living.
2. (venery).—The female pudendum. Generally Old Hat. For synonyms, see Monosyllable.
1754. Fielding, Jonathan Wild, i., 6 (note). I shall conclude this learned note with remarking that the term old hat is used by the vulgar in no very honourable sense.