apple pud

7.0

A warm sweet dessert made from apples, often served with custard

noun

: pudín de manzana

After Sunday dinner, we enjoyed some homemade apple pud with custard.

Examples

She made an apple pud for dessert.
There's nothing like a warm apple pud on a cold evening.
She always asks for apple pud when she visits her grandmother's house.
I love apple pud!
After Sunday dinner, we enjoyed some homemade apple pud with custard.
There's nothing like a warm apple pud on a cold evening.
She always asks for apple pud when she visits her grandmother's house.

Synonyms

apple pie

vsapple pud

41 1.0

A sweet baked dessert with sliced apples inside a pastry crust

is an informal term for similar fruit desserts made from one fruit

pud

vsapple pud

5 9.9

A sweet dish served after a meal, like pudding

is that informal word but used for sweet dishes made with a single fruit

apple tart

vsapple pud

3 1.0

A baked sweet pastry like a pie with sliced apples and sugar

is a casual name used for comparable fruit-based sweet dishes

apple sauce

vsapple pud

3 1.0

A sweet, smooth food made by cooking and mashing apples, often with sugar and spices

is a casual name used instead for chunkier or set fruit desserts

apple dumpling

vsapple pud

1 3.3

A baked apple wrapped in dough and served as a sweet dessert

is an informal label for desserts made by cooking fruit in different forms

fruit custard

vsapple pud

1.1

A sweet, thick dessert of milk and eggs mixed with pieces of fruit

is the informal fruit dessert term rather than a dairy cream mix

Surface Forms

apple pud singular

apple puddings plural

Morphology

apple + pud

The meaning is a straightforward composition of 'apple' (fruit) + 'pud' (pudding/dessert), so a learner who knows both constituents can infer it denotes an apple-based dessert. Although 'pud' is an informal/regional shortening of 'pudding', the semantic relation is directly predictable and cross-linguistically common, making it easily understandable at B1.

Etymology

Apple pud comes from casual speech where pud is short for 'pudding' and apple names the fruit. People often made warm puddings with apples, so Apple pud became an easy name for that apple dessert.