Well, it's complicated, completely ambiguous, and perhaps a tiny bit risqué, all at once.

Here are a few hints off various etymology and language lists.

Puddintane Origin

Poon, Poontang

You see a lot of nonsense about this, including folk derivations from French Putain, from thence to Filipino (Ilokano dialect) putang (which is clearly from the French), both meaning "whore" or "fuck," and thence through pure coincidence to Poontang, to Poon, which is more probably from Puddintame or Puddintane.

"The Real Issue" William Allen White 1896 earliest known citation. "Puddin' 'n' tame, ast me agin an' I'll tell you the same.......
lots of speculation on poontang unable to find citation.

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Posted on: Tue Jun 08, 2004 6:32 am

This is phrase is just too good to quit on. I’ve searched through several slang dictionaries, and the web, and haven’t been able to find PUDDIN TAME. However, the 171 Google hits I got on that phrase, convinced me that the expression is not unknown, especially to fans of the previously mentioned band with the clever name, 69 BOYZ . And I did find some very interesting associated material on PUDDING and possible threads of connection between several items that appear at first glance to be unrelated.

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Dictionary of American Slang:

PUDDING noun [by 1719] The penis. ‘You can’t even come off unless you pull your own pudding’ – Philip Roth [my guess is from his novel ‘Portnoy’s Complaint’]

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Cassell’s Dictionary of Slang (note: I finally read the introduction and realized that a ‘+’ sign after the date means that the word is still in use)

PUDDING noun 1. [late 17th cent.+] sexual intercourse. 2. [late 17th cent.+] the penis (cf. PUD, PULL ONE’S PUD) 3. [late 17th cent.+] semen. 4. [18th cent.] the stomach (cf. PUDDING-HOUSE) 5. [19th cent.+] meat, usually liver, that has been impregnated with drugs or poison, used by a thief to silence a house dog (cf. verb PUDDEN). 6. [1930’s +] an unborn child, a foetus (cf. HAVE A BUN IN THE OVEN; IN THE PUDDING CLUB; PUDDING IN THE OVEN). [in standard English pudding, guts, entrails]

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Merriam-Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary

Main Entry: PUDDING
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English; perhaps akin to Old English ‘puduc’ wart, Low German ‘puddek’ sausage, ‘puddig’ swollen

1 a) : BLOOD SAUSAGE b) obsolete : sausage stuffing for roast meat ‘that roasted … ox with the pudding in his belly— Shakespeare’ c) dialect England : GUTS — usually used in plural

2 a) (1) : a boiled or baked unsweetened soft food usually having a cereal base and a texture resembling custard and eaten either as a main course or as a side dish ‘Virginia chicken pudding’ ‘corn pudding’ — compare HASTY PUDDING, YORKSHIRE PUDDING (2) : a usually boiled or baked sweetened dessert of a soft, spongy, or thick creamy consistency ‘bread pudding’ ‘rice pudding’ ‘chocolate pudding’ b) : an unsweetened dish often containing suet or having a suet crust and originally boiled in a bag but now often steamed or baked ‘fig pudding’ ‘beefsteak and kidney pudding’ — compare PLUM PUDDING c) : something that resembles a pudding ‘pudding bolster’ ‘the low bogs … had been churned to chocolate-colored puddings of ancient peat— Farley Mowat’

4 a) : inherent quality : ability to measure up to expectations : ADEQUACY, MERIT ‘proved his pudding commercially— Newsweek’ ‘the proof of the pudding is in the eating’ b) : tangible support or profit ‘truth with gold she weighs, and solid pudding against empty praise— Alexander Pope’

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The Barnhart Concise Dictionary of Etymology

PUDDING: noun 1287 animal stomach or casing stuffed with meat, etc., kind of sausage; earlier as a surname Pudding (1176); also ‘poding’ (before 1300); of uncertain origin (perhaps related to Old English ‘puduc’ a wen, with allusion to swelling; or traditionally associated with Old French ‘bodin,’ ‘boudin’ sausage from the root ’bod-‘ bloated or swollen; and possibly cognate with Low German ‘pudderwurst’ a thick black pudding, ‘puddig’ thick, bloated). German and Dutch forms were borrowed from English

The soft cooked food resembling custard (1670), comes from food boiled or steamed in a bag, first recorded in 1544.

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WARNING: ONLY THE MATURE READER SHOULD CONTINUE - SEXUALLY EXPLICIT MATERIAL WILL FOLLOW

Verses in parentheses are sung or spoken by women

And now to the nitty-gritty and to what was probably the basis for the original Clubhouse question. From the not to subtle “69 Boyz” big hit (to some) ‘Puddin Tame’:

Verse 1: Thrill Da Playa

Hey girlfriend, what's yo name? I've been watchin' you all night long
And the way you move that Puddin Tame has really turned me on
So get on the daaaaaance floor, and work it one mo' gen
Push! Swang that Puddin Tame until the party end
I like when you grab dem hips, and move it down real slow
Round and round with that grindin' motion, down to the floor
I know the panties you wearin' helpin' that thang look fine
It's got to be dem G-string 'cause I ain't seen no panty line
For those of y'all who don't know, just what that Puddin Tame mean,
It's that monkey, that kitty cat, that jumpin' jellybean, baby.

Chorus (2x)
(What's your thing?) Puddin Tame. Ask me again, I'll tell you the same.
(What's your thing?) Puddin Tame. Still the same, ain't nothin' changed.

Bridge:

Some like it in a bowl, some like it on a stick
Some like they Puddin nice and thin, but then some like it thick
No matter how you like it, I love my Puddin Tame
And if you ask me just one mo' gen, I'm still gon' say the same, uh!

Verse 2: The Rottweiler

Yo, c'mon c'mon c'mon c'mon, jump, just gimme that thang
Some say it's greed, but I just need that good ol' Puddin Tame
Yo, and it ain't hard, and once you start, I won't let ya stop
I want your bowl o' jello, baby; jus' gimme that Puddin-Pop
Now understand if you got a man then, yo, I don't need ya
But if you're alone and got it goin' on, jus' let me freak ya
Now it's about time, I'm down with 6-9, and ain't no shame in my game
Up and down, round and round, even doo-doo brown,
So jus' gimme that Puddin Tame! Uh!

Chorus

Verse 3: Thrill Da Playa

Baby, don't get me wrong; you shakin' dat booty to death
And when I saw that Puddin Tame, I just couldn't help myself!
The way you move that Puddin Tame got things all in my head
It's 69, not TLC, and I Ain't 2 Proud 2 Beg!
There's somethin' 'bout that Puddin there
That's different from the others
That one there looks just like, it should be on an album cover
And I don't discriminate, naw, I'm not that type of fella
As long as the Puddin's sweet, I like it chocolate or vanilla
For those of y'all who don't know, just what that Puddin Tame mean,
It's that monkey, baby, that kitty cat, that jumpin' jellybean!

Chorus

Bridge

Chorus

I think with this short excerpt, even the uninitiated can get the picture.
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Interesting interconnections! Very roughly, we start with some guy’s name (Sir Pudding *G*) in the 12th century, and then move on to sausage, swelling, and black pudding in the 13th century. We take a mulitcentury breather to regroup, and then return in the 17th century with renewed vigour to graduate to sexual intercourse, the penis, and semen (keeping live the swelling/sausage theme); and then quickly pick up the stomach in the 18th with a club trip to Harvard in 1795. With the dawn of the 19th century Harvard adds the accompanying histrionics and then things moved on quite naturally to spiked dog food that would make a canine drowsy and TAME (or even worse, dead) in the course of an attempted burglary, to a possibly over-relaxed person who could, of course, just be a dodo, nitwit or ‘puddinhead’ a la Clemens, but who could possibly have been an innocent victim of some soporific slipped into her lemonade in an early attempt at date rape, but who, on the other hand, could have been a not-so-innocent sexy and promiscuous woman, in fact, an ‘easy lady,’ a ‘tame pudding’ or, moving onward and upward into the 20th century as so colourfully defined, in the immortal words of those ‘69’ guys and as so elegantly named (but not at all ‘homonymically’ related to) ‘the poontang’ in the 1920’s (later abbreviated in the 40’s to just ‘the poon’) – a phrase for what resides between every woman’s legs: THE PUDDIN TAME.

PUDDIN TAME. What a phrase. I have newfound respect for it, which I didn’t have before I started this investigation. What an interesting stew of a story unfolds as one follows the etymological thread as it weaves its way through intercourse, spiked dog food, a ‘baby in the oven,’ the penis, stuffed stomach casings (good old wurst) and semen – possible condom connection here (!), a Yorkshire treat, a relaxed or loose person (including sexually), and possibly even a fool, simpleton and dumkopf, the stomach, the vagina, and of course good old Harvard. I love it. This sort of brew reminds me of a TV series that appeared in the 70’s on PBS (probably produced by the BBC) in which that wonderful British fellow, James Burke, looked at the history of technology and traced the ‘Connections’ between the seemingly unconnected.

Ken G - April 8, 2002

Reply from Ken Greenwald (Fort Collins, CO - U.S.A.)

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Puddintane

Puddintamer

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