[tlhIngan Hol] Klingon Word of the Day: wIlpuq

[Steven Boozer]

Klingon Word of the Day for Sunday, November 21, 2021

Klingon word: 	wIlpuq
Part of speech: 	noun
Definition: 	pudding
Source: 	Marc Okrand to Lawrence M. Schoen at qep'a' 2008
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(ghunchu'wI', 7/29/2008):  Dr. Okrand also offhandedly volunteered that it was 'kind of like butterscotch', using a half-shrug and a hand gesture that I associate with uncertainty. But I don't believe there would be anything wrong with referring to Terran chocolate pudding as {yuch wIlpuq}. 

(KGT 99f):  If the particular dish is somewhat soupy (a dish of this kind is termed a {chatlh}, roughly translated as "soup", though the amount of liquid is far less than what the Federation Standard term soup would suggest) … Since this sort of dish is still primarily solid food as opposed to liquid, using the verb {tlhutlh} (drink) to describe ingesting it is not quite right. There is another verb, {'ep}, which refers to eating food of this kind.

TREK TRIVIA:
  Jake Sisko is partial to Idanian spice pudding. (DS9 various episodes)

PUN:  
*{wIl} + {puq} -> Wil + child -> Wil son; cf. Mark Twain's book/character Pudd'nhead Wilson (Tad)

SEE ALSO:
nIm 		milk (n)
qulcher 	cream (n)
yuch  		chocolate (n)

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