pudding
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- noun
- /ˈpʊdɪŋ/
- UK
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postre
- When the stout black maid appeared carrying two small dishes of pudding, Scarlett stalked over to her.
It tastes like apple pie bread pudding, but instead of bread, it's noodles.
- It tastes like apple pie bread pudding, but instead of bread, it's noodles.
- I don't like eating pudding outdoors or out in public.
- Do people would pay for the salad bar just for the pudding?
- I know you stand on the British, but where do you stand on pudding?
- You don't just pretend nobody spilled pudding in the kitchen.
- So I mimed Ron DeSantis eating pudding with two fingers.
Examples
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Pearl had baked a plum pudding each year for Elaine's family.
Fiction book (1996) -
One toffee sticky toffee pudding, one chocolate orange pot.
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- Do come in and have pudding with us.
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- Saved you some pudding again.
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Dutch almost dropped the plate with pudding and cake on it.
Fiction book (1999) -
Got home just in time for pudding, didn't I?
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- You haven't had your pudding yet.
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And then I'll show you what we've got for pudding tonight.
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Sticky toffee pudding.
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For dessert, we served warm chocolate cake and creamy pudding.
Synonyms
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A sweet dish eaten at the end of a meal
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A sweet, smooth dessert made with chocolate
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A sweet dish served after a meal, like pudding
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A rich steamed dessert with dried fruit and spices, often served at Christmas in Britain
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A sweet creamy dessert with small soft balls of tapioca cooked in milk and sugar
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2.5
A rich sweet cooked with dried fruit and spices and served at Christmas in Britain
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A smooth sweet dessert flavored with vanilla, often served in a bowl
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A steamed or boiled pudding made from suet, a hard beef fat, and flour, often sweet
A sweet or savory dish cooked by steaming, often made from flour and eggs
A cold dessert made from custard, nuts, and sometimes a little alcohol, served frozen
A hot sweet porridge you make by boiling cornmeal or oats with milk and usually eat with syrup
A sweet dessert made with grated carrots, milk, and sugar
A playful old name for a soft sweet dessert like pudding
Idioms
Compounds
- UK
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A rich steamed dessert with dried fruit and spices, often served at Christmas in Britain
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A sweet creamy dessert with small soft balls of tapioca cooked in milk and sugar
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6.7
A dark sausage made from pig's blood, fat, and oatmeal that people cook and eat
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2.5
A rich sweet cooked with dried fruit and spices and served at Christmas in Britain
- UK
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7.6
A steamed or boiled pudding made from suet, a hard beef fat, and flour, often sweet
A cold dessert made from custard, nuts, and sometimes a little alcohol, served frozen
- Archaic
A hot sweet porridge you make by boiling cornmeal or oats with milk and usually eat with syrup
- Specialized
A low creeping plant with bright red berries that grows in cold northern places
- Australian
A tropical tree with hanging yellow flowers and pods whose soft inside is used as medicine
- Specialized
A rock made of many pebbles and small stones held together by harder material
A rolled sweet pudding made from suet pastry filled with jam, often steamed or baked
Surface Forms
Etymology
Pudding comes from the Old French word boudin, which meant 'sausage' and from Latin botellus meaning 'little sausage'. Long ago puddings were mixtures put into skins and boiled or steamed, so in Britain the name grew to mean the soft sweet course at the end of a meal.