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

For years, while she was working in London restaurants as a chef and pastry chef, she enjoyed “dreaming up sweet combinations and making puddings.”

From The Daily Beast

The proof is in the pudding, and if they can get people to adopt it, like they did on GitHub so far, and keep that community engagement, that is my strongest signal of staying power.

From TechCrunch

Rice pudding and various puddings were born out of that end-of-year culinary devotion.

From Washington Blade

The result is a dense pudding that is cream or darker in color, depending on the ingredients used.

From Washington Blade

The fruit is then examined, and sent out to grocery stores, for home delivery, and restaurants like NYC’s Magnolia Bakery, which uses about 30 cases of bananas every day to make the spot’s wildly famous banana pudding.

From Eater

It was popularized as a holiday dessert in 16th-century England and also is known as Christmas pudding or plum pudding.

From The Daily Beast

INSIDER TIP: Bring a collapsible sports chair and (try to) leave room for pecan pie and bread pudding.

From The Daily Beast

What they got was, in the evocate words of Ben Franklin, a “Prince Eugene” who had “eaten a Pudding Bagg.”

From The Daily Beast

Yes, you can eat familiar voileivăt (sandwiches) for lunch and rice pudding or banana cream pie for jălkiruoat (dessert).

From The Daily Beast

Santa snacks on rice pudding in Denmark, sponge cake in Chile, Kulkuls in India, and mince pies in the U.K.

From The Daily Beast

Well, the pudding moment arrived, and a huge slice almost obscured from sight the plate before us.

From Project Gutenberg

I tell you, madam, most distinctly and emphatically, that it is bread pudding and the meanest kind at that.'

From Project Gutenberg

Even the two hired men sitting under another tree devouring the delicious pudding, paused to hear Benny laugh.

From Project Gutenberg

Never take more than two vegetables; do not take a second plate of soup, pastry, or pudding.

From Project Gutenberg

Cheese is now eaten with apple puddings and pies; but is there any nook in England where they still grate it over plum pudding?

From Project Gutenberg