pudding

 
Pronunciation: /ˈpʊdɪŋ/

noun

chiefly British
  • 1a cooked sweet dish served after the main course of a meal: a rice pudding [mass noun]: a good helping of pudding
  • [mass noun] the dessert course of a meal: what’s for pudding?
  • North American a dessert with a soft or creamy consistency.
  • 2a sweet or savoury steamed dish made with suet and flour: a steak and kidney pudding
  • the intestines of a pig or sheep stuffed with oatmeal, spices, and meat and boiled.
  • informal a fat or stupid person: away with you, you big pudding!

Phrases

in the pudding club

see club1.

Derivatives

puddingy

adjective

Origin:

Middle English (denoting a sausage such as black pudding): apparently from Old French boudin 'black pudding', from Latin botellus 'sausage, small intestine'