black pudding
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6.5
- noun
- /blæk ˈpʊdɪŋ/
- UK
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morcilla
- For breakfast, I enjoyed a slice of black pudding alongside my eggs and toast.
- black pudding contains blood
- black pudding sausage
Examples
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3 lbs of steak with a side dish of black pudding?
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Partial to a nice black pudding myself.
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Oh, could I have a black pudding for my friend, please?
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"Have some delicious... black pudding."
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We're just having a classic black pudding and salad.
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Bacon, eggs and black pudding, do ya?
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If you've never tried black pudding, then you need to try it here.
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I brought you some farmhouse delicacies: black puddings and a bottle of mead.
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At the local market, I found a stall that sells homemade black pudding made from traditional recipes.
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Many people in the UK consider black pudding a delicacy that complements a full breakfast.
Synonyms
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4.1
A dark sausage made from cooked animal blood, fat, and other ingredients
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6.7
A dark sausage made from pig's blood, fat, and oatmeal that people cook and eat
Surface Forms
Morphology
A B1 learner who knows 'black' and 'pudding' will reasonably infer a dark, savory food item (a dense pudding/sausage-like dish), because 'pudding' can denote savory prepared foods. However, the specific composition — that it is a blood sausage made from pig's blood and particular fillers — is culturally specific and not directly predictable from the constituents, so understanding is partial rather than fully transparent.
Etymology
Black pudding comes from a simple food image: a soft sausage made with pig's blood, so it is dark and called black. Because it is soft like a 'pudding', it was called pudding, and that is why the name means a dark sausage made with blood and eaten cooked.