black pudding

American  

noun

1. British and Southern U.S.. blood sausage.

2. a dark dessert pudding made with flour, baking soda, eggs, and molasses.

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black pudding British  

noun

1. Usual US and Canadian name: blood sausage.  Also called: blood pudding.  a kind of black sausage made from minced pork fat, pig's blood, and other ingredients

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Etymology

Origin of black pudding

First recorded in 1560–70

Example Sentences

"Do you do salads?" one driver jokes, to laughs from other customers and the owner, before requesting black pudding.

From BBC • Feb. 4, 2023

In England, a traditional cooked breakfast consists of sausages, grilled tomato, mushrooms, bacon, beans, fried egg, fried bread, black pudding, toast, tea, hash browns and brown sauce.

From Washington Post • Oct. 1, 2021

And Beau ran around in a dress covered in baked beans and black pudding.

From New York Times • Dec. 24, 2020

Some people don’t like black pudding and baked beans for breakfast, either.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 28, 2020

What you can have now, missus, is black pudding and tripe or a sheep’s head or a nice pig’s head.

From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt