sticky toffee pud
- noun
- /ˈstɪki ˈtɒfi pʌd/
- UK
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pudín de toffee pegajoso
- I always order the sticky toffee pud when I visit that café.
Examples
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Would you like some sticky toffee pud for dessert?
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Their sticky toffee pud won an award at the food festival last year.
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Would you like to share a sticky toffee pud for dessert?
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I love sticky toffee pud!
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Their sticky toffee pud won an award at the food festival last year.
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Would you like to share a sticky toffee pud for dessert?
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I always order the sticky toffee pud when I visit that café.
How Sweet
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is compositionally transparent: 'sticky' (adhesive), 'toffee' (the sweet sauce/flavour) and 'pud' (short for pudding/dessert) combine to describe a sticky toffee dessert, so a learner who knows the three constituents can infer the meaning. It is an informal/clipped British variant but follows normal adjective+noun composition, so the meaning is predictable to a B1 learner familiar with 'pud'.
Etymology
Sticky toffee pud comes from a popular British 'pudding' that is a soft cake covered in sweet, sticky toffee sauce, and people often shorten 'pudding' to pud as a friendly name. So sticky toffee pud today simply means that same sweet 'dessert'.