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, adjective

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, adjective

Word 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.