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pudding.

Any of various dishes, sweet or savoury, prepared by boiling or steaming or from batter.

7 characters2 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈpʊdɪŋ/Australia, Received-Pronunciation, US/ˈpɵdɪŋ/British, Southern, Standard/ˈpʊdɪŋɡ/Midlands, Northern-England/ˈpʉdɪŋ/Northern-Ireland, Scotland

  1. Any of various dishes, sweet or savoury, prepared by boiling or steaming or from batter.

    countable · uncountable

  2. A type of cake or dessert cooked usually by boiling or steaming.

    countable · uncountable

  3. A type of dessert that has a texture similar to custard or mousse but using some kind of starch as the thickening agent.

    countable · uncountable

  4. Dessert; the dessert course of a meal.

    Australia · New-Zealand · UK · countable · uncountable
    We have apple pie for pudding today.

  5. A sausage made primarily from blood.

    countable · uncountable

  6. An overweight person.

    countable · slang · uncountable

  7. A term of endearment.

    countable · endearing · uncountable

  8. Entrails.

    countable · slang · uncountable

  9. Any food or victuals.

    countable · obsolete · uncountable

  10. A piece of good fortune.

    archaic · countable · slang · uncountable
Where this word comes from

From circa 1305, Middle English podynge (“kind of sausage; meat-filled animal stomach”), puddynge, from Old French boudin (“blood sausage, black pudding”), from Latin botellus (“sausage, small intestine”). Doublet of boudin. * An alternative etymology assumes origin from Proto-Germanic *put-, *pud- (“to swell”) (compare dialectal English pod (“belly”), Old English puduc (“wen, sore”), Low German puddig (“swollen”), Westphalian Puddek (“lump, pudding”), Puddewurst (“black pudding”). More at pout.

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