Hooting-pudding, subs. (provincial).—A plum-pudding with such a paucity of plums that you can hear them hooting after each other.—Slang, Jargon, and Cant.
Hop, subs. (common).—A dance. [Generally informal, as a Cinderella (q.v.).] Also, as in quot. 1579, the motions of dancing. For synonyms, see Skip.
1579. Gosson, Schoole of Abuse, p. 33 (Arber’s Ed.). He gaue Dauncers great stipends for selling their hopps.
1811. Jane Austen, Sense and S., ch. ix. At a little hop at the park, he danced from eight o clock till four.
1823. Bee, Dict. Turf, s.v. Hop—a contra-dance of ordinary persons and promiscuous company is ‘a hop’ and ‘a penny-hop’ from the price formerly paid for admission.
1830. Lytton, Paul Clifford, iv. He gave them from time to time a very agreeable hop.
1847. Thackeray, Mrs. Perkins’s Ball (Mr. Larkins). To describe this gentleman’s infatuation for dancing, let me say, in a word, that he will even frequent boarding-house hops, rather than not go.
1848. Ruxton, Life in the Far West, p. 189. The ‘temple’ was generally cleared for a hop two or three times during the week.
1850. Smedley, Frank Fairleigh, p. 121. You’ll be at old Coleman’s hop to-night, I suppose; so bye! bye! for the present.
1852. Bristed, Upper Ten Thousand, p. 129. Two undress-balls—hops they were.