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Pudding
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- 1 Any of various dishes, sweet or savoury, prepared by boiling or steaming, or from batter. countable, uncountable
"The dishes in this chapter represent a range of multiethnic savory custards and steamed puddings, including a few surprises like a chèvre popover pudding and a bread pudding with lettuce and cheese."
- 2 any of various soft sweet desserts thickened usually with flour and baked or boiled or steamed wordnet
- 3 A type of cake or dessert cooked usually by boiling or steaming. countable, uncountable
"Steamed puddings, a favourite for winter, are both easy to make and delicious. Served with one of the sweet sauces (recipes 497 to 506) they make a filling and satisfying end to a meal."
- 4 (British) the dessert course of a meal (‘pud’ is used informally) wordnet
- 5 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
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- 6 any of various soft thick unsweetened baked dishes wordnet
- 7 Dessert; the dessert course of a meal. Australia, New-Zealand, UK, countable, uncountable
"We have apple pie for pudding today."
- 8 A sausage made primarily from blood. countable, uncountable
- 9 An overweight person. countable, slang, uncountable
- 10 A term of endearment. countable, endearing, uncountable
""How is my little pudding?" Jehan nuzzles up to me and rests his little head on my shoulder, still chuckling […]"
- 11 Entrails. countable, slang, uncountable
"I pray God he may recover, though there is little hopes; as there is of Coll Halley, being shott throw the body; and of Capt. Urquhart of Burdyeyeards, being wounded in the belly, after being made prisoner, soe that his puddings hang out."
- 12 Any food or victuals. countable, obsolete, uncountable
"Eat your pudding, slave, and hold your tongue."
- 13 A piece of good fortune. archaic, countable, slang, uncountable
Etymology
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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