A humorous British twist on the formal apology phrase 'I beg your pardon', swapping 'pardon' for 'pudding' for comic effect. It's the kind of mock-polite nonsense the British excel at — taking an already stiff expression and making it even more absurd. Used when someone says something confusing, outrageous, or hard to believe, and you want to express disbelief while getting a laugh. It sits nicely alongside other British wordplay traditions.
He said he'd eaten the entire cake by himself — I beg your pudding, the entire thing?
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(UK, colloquial, humorous) I beg your pardon.
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Regional slang from around the English-speaking world — British, Australian, Irish, Caribbean, Nigerian, Filipino, AAVE, and the hyphenated-English dialects that make the internet sound local.
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