*pudding wife*

{ }. [ Prob. corrupted fr. the Sp. name in Cuba, pudiano verde. ] (Zool.) A large, handsomely colored, blue and bronze, labroid fish (Iridio radiatus, syn. Platyglossus radiatus) of Florida, Bermuda, and the West Indies. Called also pudiano, doncella, and, at Bermuda, bluefish. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]