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

Other Word Forms

• puddinglike adjective
• puddingy 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

Waiters served Yorkshire pudding and beef pie with Stilton cheese.

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For something completely different, I decided to try her New York Dutch Baby, which is a kind of giant, puffy pancake akin to Yorkshire pudding.

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After the pudding was served, and with only a tiny nudge from his governess, Beowulf stood up.

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"They had these little rice pudding things in plastic cups," says Agar.

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Wilson thinks the market was hoping for a more immediate end for QT, and “the proof will be in the pudding, in our view, as we monitor how short term funding markets behave.”

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