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 _______________________________________________ (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) -- Voragh, Ca'Non Master of the Klingons Please contribute relevant vocabulary or notes from the last year or two. I’ve fallen woefully behind in updating my files.