pudding

[ pood-ing ]

noun

1. a thick, soft dessert, typically containing flour or some other thickener, milk, eggs, a flavoring, and sweetener:

   tapioca pudding.

2. a similar dish unsweetened and served with or as a main dish:

   corn pudding.

3. British. the dessert course of a meal.
4. Nautical. a pad or fender for preventing scraping or chafing or for lessening shock between vessels or other objects.

pudding

/ ˈpʊdɪŋ /

noun

1. a sweetened usually cooked dessert made in many forms and of various ingredients, such as flour, milk, and eggs, with fruit, etc
2. a savoury dish, usually soft and consisting partially of pastry or batter

   steak-and-kidney pudding

3. the dessert course in a meal
4. a sausage-like mass of seasoned minced meat, oatmeal, etc, stuffed into a prepared skin or bag and boiled

Derived Forms

• ˈpuddingy, adjective

Other Words From

• pudding·like adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of pudding¹

1275–1325; Middle English poding kind of sausage; compare Old English puduc wen, sore (perhaps originally swelling), Low German puddewurst black pudding

Word History and Origins

Origin of pudding¹

C13 poding; compare Old English puduc a wart, Low German puddek sausage

Idioms and Phrases

see proof of the pudding .

Example Sentences

Bear in mind, my mum had been working at that time for Nestle for 30 years and here comes her daughter asking her to sell Christmas puddings.

From Salon

“I did one where I ate a Pot Noodle and a tin of rice pudding.”

From BBC

Rice pudding was strewn all over the kitchen, the cell doors were ajar.

From BBC

It includes recipes for meyer lemon and bay leaf gelato, jasmine-scented almond milk mousse and fruit pudding made from white melon and orange blossom.

From Salon

"She was a great cook, a proper Yorkshire cook. She made the best rice pudding with skin on the top in the oven. She did the best Yorkshire puddings," he said.

From BBC