pudding
[ poo d-ing ]
/ ˈpʊd ɪŋ /
noun
a thick, soft dessert, typically containing flour or some other thickener, milk, eggs, a flavoring, and sweetener: tapioca pudding.
a similar dish unsweetened and served with or as a main dish: corn pudding.
British.
the dessert course of a meal.
Nautical.
a pad or fender for preventing scraping or chafing or for lessening shock between vessels or other objects.
Origin of pudding
1275–1325; Middle English
poding kind of sausage; compare Old English
puduc wen, sore (perhaps orig. swelling), Low German
puddewurst black pudding
OTHER WORDS FROM pudding
pud·ding·like, adjectiveWords nearby pudding
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Example sentences from the Web for pudding
British Dictionary definitions for pudding
pudding
/ (ˈpʊdɪŋ) /
noun
a sweetened usually cooked dessert made in many forms and of various ingredients, such as flour, milk, and eggs, with fruit, etc
a savoury dish, usually soft and consisting partially of pastry or batter
steak-and-kidney pudding
the dessert course in a meal
a sausage-like mass of seasoned minced meat, oatmeal, etc, stuffed into a prepared skin or bag and boiled
Derived forms of pudding
puddingy, adjectiveWord Origin for pudding
C13
poding; compare Old English
puduc a wart, Low German
puddek sausage
Idioms and Phrases with pudding
pudding
see proof of the pudding.