pudding Definition
pud·ding (po̵od′iŋ)
noun
- Scot., North Eng. a sausage made of intestine stuffed with meat, suet, etc. and boiled
- a soft, mushy or creamy food, usually made with a base of flour, cornstarch, cornmeal, etc., and boiled or baked
- a sweetened dessert, usually of similar consistency and usually steamed or baked, variously containing eggs, milk, fruit, etc.
- Chiefly Brit.
- any dessert
- the dessert course of a meal
Etymology: ME puddyng, altered < ? OFr boudin, black pudding < VL *botellinus < LL botellus: see bowel
pudding Synonyms
pudding
n.
Kinds of pudding include: blanc mange, floating island, flan, prune whip, charlotte russe, tapioca, custard, apple snow, fruit cobbler, rice, bread, batter, cornstarch, fig, plum, banana cream, Christmas, chocolate, vanilla, butterscotch, Indian, fruit sago, graham pudding.
pudding Usage Examples
Converse of object
- over-egging: But Lomborg's caricature of environmentalists as irrational doom-mongers was over-egging the pudding.
- over-egg: If you over-egg the pudding it sounds like it is an issue for you, and that can scare people off.
- steam: Use in rich desserts such as sticky toffee pudding and steamed date pudding.
- bake: Similar hard sauces can be made with butter or margarine and fruit for eating with the baked puddings given earlier.
Modifies a noun
- basin: Font " a pudding basin " on a wooden stand.
- bowl: After getting through my main course I put the pudding bowl in front of me and grimaced.
Adjective modifier
- plum: Roast Beef, plum pudding, mince pies - Who likes them better, Happy Jack or I?
- sticky: Never mind, the sticky toffee pudding was great, I'm sure Delia would have approved.
- bread-and-butter: There's also a children's menu and a choice of mouth-watering desserts including apple tart, bread-and-butter pudding and sticky toffee pudding.
- figgy: The home-made puddings ( all at £ 5 ) included Bramley apple and rhubarb crumble and figgy sponge pudding.
- hasty: We had Quaker Oats and sometimes what they call hasty pudding.
- scrumptious: And don't forget the scrumptious puddings that no-one can resist.
Preposition: with
- custard: The Christmas pudding with custard and sauce was delicious.
- sauce: Desert was of course Christmas pudding with brandy sauce, to finish off we had cheese and biscuits helped down with coffee.
Noun used with modifier
- toffee: Never mind, the sticky toffee pudding was great, I'm sure Delia would have approved.
- suet: I arrived feeling like a lardy suet pudding past its sell-by date, & went away feeling like an organic fresh fruit salad!
- rice: Surprise of the evening was the first course: lettuce & rice pudding, I'm told.
- treacle: I was lured from my already well satiated state to sample the treacle pudding and custard.
- sponge: Steamed sponge pudding topped with strawberry jam served with ice cream or custard or both.
- butter: Lots of people knew about bread and butter pudding, but not bread pudding.
Browse dictionary entries near pudding
- ‹ pud
- ‹ puckish
- ‹ Puckett, B Earl
- ‹ puckery
- ‹ pucker
- ‹ pucka
- ‹ puck
- ‹ puce
- ‹ puccoon
- ‹ Puccini, Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele
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- pudendum ›
- pudeur ›
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- Pudney,John Sleigh ›
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