pudding
pud·ding [pudding puddings] BrE [ˈpʊdɪŋ] NAmE [ˈpʊdɪŋ] (BrE informal pud) noun uncountable, countable
1. (BrE)a sweet dish eaten at the end of a meal
•What's for pudding?
•I haven't made a pudding today.
Syn: ↑afters, Syn: ↑dessert, Syn: ↑sweet
2. (BrE)a hot sweet dish, often like a cake, made from flour, fat and eggs with fruit, jam, etc. in or on it
•treacle pudding
•bread and butter pudding (= made with bread, butter and milk)
see also ↑Christmas pudding, ↑rice pudding, ↑sponge pudding, ↑summer pudding
3. (BrE)a hot dish like a ↑pie with soft ↑pastry made from flour, fat and eggs and usually filled with meat
•a steak and kidney pudding
4. (especially NAmE)a cold ↑dessert (= a sweet dish) like cream flavoured with fruit, chocolate, etc
•chocolate pudding
see also ↑black pudding, ↑Yorkshire pudding, see over-egg the pudding at ↑over-egg, the proof of the pudding (is in the eating) at ↑proof
See also: ↑pud
Word 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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