1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, ch. 94:Plum-pudding is the term bestowed upon certain fragmentary parts of the whale's flesh, here and there adhering to the blanket of blubber, and often participating to a considerable degree in its unctuousness.
1919, Anthony Hope, The Secret of the Tower, ch. 17:Only Mr. Radbolt's unctuousness—surely it would have smoothed the stormiest waves—saved the social situation.
