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pudding
[ pood-ing ]
/ ˈpʊd ɪŋ /
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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.
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Origin of pudding
1275–1325; Middle English poding kind of sausage; compare Old English puduc wen, sore (perhaps originally swelling), Low German puddewurst black pudding
OTHER WORDS FROM pudding
pud·ding·like, adjectiveWords nearby pudding
puckery, puck hog, puckish, puckout, pud, pudding, pudding club, pudding-pipe tree, pudding stone, puddingwife, puddle
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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 battersteak-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
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Other Idioms and Phrases with pudding
pudding
see proof of the pudding.
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