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pudding

Syllabification: (pud·ding)
Pronunciation: /ˈpo͝odiNG/

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Definition of pudding

noun

  • 1a dessert with a creamy consistency:chocolate pudding a rice pudding
  • chiefly British any dessert.
  • chiefly British the dessert course of a meal:what’s for pudding?
  • 2a sweet or savory steamed dish made with flour:Yorkshire pudding
  • the intestines of a pig or sheep stuffed with oatmeal, spices, and meat and boiled. See also black pudding, blood sausage.
  • informal a fat, dumpy, 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'

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Definition of pudding in the British & World English dictionary