corn pudding
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- noun
- /kɔrn ˈpʌdɪŋ/
- US
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pudín de maíz
- Artie decided to make pork roast, mashed potatoes, biscuits, gravy, coleslaw, corn pudding, and for dessert, apple cake: a harvest feast, all made from scratch.
- collard greens and corn pudding
Examples
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Next to these, he served bacon-sprinkled refried black beans, a perfectly puffed Mexican corn pudding, and my fragrant Irish bread.
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The corn pudding is so easy!
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Gosh, I love corn pudding and the greens!
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JOE: Biaggio, your corn pudding is to die for.
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And the way I grew up is, you know, we ate canned and boxed corn pudding, and I loved it.
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Tonight's dinner is creamy corn pudding with savory glazed greens (kale and chard).
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The corn pudding takes less than 5 minutes to prepare (plus 45 minutes in the oven) and out comes a creamy, fluffy, cornbread-like casserole that's to die for.
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At the family gathering, we enjoyed a delicious corn pudding made with fresh ingredients.
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For the Thanksgiving dinner, the corn pudding was a favorite side dish among all the guests.
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She prepared a creamy corn pudding that was baked to perfection for the potluck.
Synonyms
A soft baked food made from ground corn like a pudding that people eat with a spoon
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a baked dish made with corn' is transparently built from 'corn' (the main ingredient) + 'pudding' (a type of dense, savory or sweet dish), following the common English noun–noun composition where the first noun specifies the content of the second. This construction is cross-linguistically frequent and predictable, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily infer the MWE's meaning (though exact recipe details are culture-specific).
Etymology
Corn pudding comes from simple home cooking: fresh corn mixed with milk and eggs and baked into a soft pudding. Because it is literally a creamy, pudding-like mix of corn, the name now means 'a baked, creamy corn side dish'.