Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A sweet dessert, usually containing flour or a cereal product, that has been boiled, steamed, or baked.
- n. A mixture with a soft, puddinglike consistency.
- n. A sausagelike preparation made with minced meat or various other ingredients stuffed into a bag or skin and boiled.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Minced meat, or blood, properly seasoned, stuffed into an intestine, and cooked by boiling.
- n. A dish consisting of flour or other farinaceous substance with suet, or milk, eggs, etc., sometimes enriched with fruit, as raisins, etc., originally boiled in a bag to a moderately hard consistence, but now made in many other ways.
- n. Nautical, same as puddening.
- n. The joint of an electric cable inside a junction-box.
- To draw together and join inside in a junction-box, as an electric cable.
Wiktionary
- n. originally A sausage made primarily from blood.
- n. Any of various dishes, sweet or savoury, prepared by boiling or steaming, or from batter.
- n. A type of cake or dessert cooked usually by boiling or steaming.
- n. A type of dessert that has a texture similar to custard or mousse but using some kind of starch as the thickening agent.
- n. UK, Australia, New Zealand Dessert; the dessert course of a meal.
- n. slang An overweight person.
- n. slang Entrails.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A species of food of a soft or moderately hard consistence, variously made, but often a compound of flour or meal, with milk and eggs, etc.
- n. Anything resembling, or of the softness and consistency of, pudding.
- n. An intestine; especially, an intestine stuffed with meat, etc.; a sausage.
- n. Any food or victuals.
- n. (Naut.) Same as Puddening.
WordNet 3.0
- n. (British) the dessert course of a meal (`pud' is used informally)
- n. any of various soft thick unsweetened baked dishes
- n. any of various soft sweet desserts thickened usually with flour and baked or boiled or steamed
Etymologies
- From circa 1305, Middle English poding ("kind of sausage; meat-filled animal stomach") , from French boudin ("blood sausage, black pudding"). (Wiktionary)
- Middle English, a kind of sausage, from Old French boudin. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“More proof in the pudding is all of the hate groups springing up.”
“The proof in the pudding is the high unemployment rate which when analyzed in detail shows that it's not sourced from increasing layoffs so much as an unwillingness by small business, the real engines of economic growth, to hire when facing the possibility that the person you hire now may be much more expensive to retain in employment a year from now.”
“And certainly, you're not seeing it at the levels that we saw it, say, a month ago, when there were actually big puddles of what they called pudding-like or mousse-like substance coming and washing up onto beaches.”
“But I agree with you .. most times, especially with the chocolate variety, I find that the pudding is always lacking.”
“I was going to make myself chocolate-chocolate chip cookies for my birthday, but perhaps banana pudding is the ticket instead.”
“For me, the proof in the pudding is the fleetingness of memes (and god I hate to use this term and i apologise profusely for putting in the headline but the blogosphere made me do it).”
“Mr Inglis laughed, and told him that they might go fifty times and not catch such another fish as the last; which I forgot to say in the proper place was baked by the cook, with what she called a pudding inside it, and eaten in triumph by the fishing-party, aided by Mrs Inglis, and declared to be the best fish that ever came out of the river.”
“The word "pudding" is not usually associated with vegetables by non-Spanish speakers, but that is the common translation, made more confusing by the fact that budín can also mean cake frosting or dessert pudding.”
“Rice pudding is not a particularly sweet dessert to begin with, as it focuses primarily on the rice and milk that make up its bulk.”
“Adding in some chocolate chips really ups the amount of chocolate you taste in each bite - especially when this bread pudding is served hot and the chips are still melty.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘pudding’.
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Very Silly Words
A list of very silly sounding words, as well as words that are fun to say
badot, gardyloo, dingbat, gaffer, kine, haberdashery, forsooth, whey-faced, hoddypeak, brouhaha, widdershins, decemnovenarianize and 115 more...
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
A complete Barron's Wordlist for GRE preparation. Your online flashcard replacement.
abase, abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abject, abjure and 4087 more...
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UK Usage - Find US Equivalent
All these terms have a (different) American English equivalent. Wonder if you can identify them?
abridgement (abri..., accoutrement, accoutre, acknowledgement (..., opposite, advert, adaptor, adapter, sticking plaster, advertise, adviser (advisor ..., adze, aesthete and 1196 more...
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food collection
bread, peel, pot, chorizo, Filet, olive, fill, Phyllo, dough, bake, mat, pinot and 988 more...
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Do-it-yourself Christmas Carol List
Tired of singing the same carols year after year? Wanna mix it up a little? Now you can, with the Do-it-yourself Christmas Carol List (from the creator of the Doo-it-yourself Doowop List). Just mix...
let it, reindeer, silent, child, Christmas, got run over by a, mercy mild, winter, joyful, holly, newborn, king and 59 more...
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The sweetest thing.
A spoonful of sugar makes the medicine go down!
sugary, sweetness, fragrant, cloying, saccharine, honey, luscious, nectar, pudding, pastry, bittersweet, cupcake and 44 more...
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Instant List
Things that are instant.
noodles, messenger, coffee, approval, breakfast, camera, attraction, espresso, eye lift, facelift, film, gratification and 26 more...
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words my students purport to love
utilize, pudding, Indeed, kumquat, spleen, schadenfreude, slush, juxtapose, discombobulate, brackish, resuscitate, vapid
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Words To Use In Creative Writing
hag-ridden, light-heeled, wendigo, longshanks, fatuous, insipid, sodden, bulging, sycophantic, uncourtly, gauche, assuasive and 174 more...
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Twitter favourites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favourite word" and adds it to this list.
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thunderfuck, incredible, merp, sara, flopparoo, smother, fugly, buer, plum, canny, nefelibata, cuntbucket and 2455 more... -
cindywrites's Words
chiaroscuro, mollycoddle, feckless, evocative, provocative, invocation, beckon, allay, becalm, console, lull, soothe and 479 more...
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Foodie
As much fun to say as they are to eat.
blueberry, cider, almond, apricot, asparagus, banana, fudge, foldover, flapjacks, filbert, fig, biscuit and 217 more...
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i don't like cricket, i love it
Words without which cricket could not be.
keeper, stumper, bad light stopped..., wicket keeper, rain stopped play, sight screen, bodyline, leg bye, duck, duckworth-lewis, t20, one-day game and 245 more...
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spoon
being items relating to food, cooking and the kitchen.
spoon, fork, beef, slice, dozen, eggs, simmer, broil, salad, soup, stock, lard and 287 more...
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wreckingball's Words
reprehensible, problematize, crepuscular, deleterious, pestilent, strumpet, draggletail, interrobang, meretricious, systematize, schadenfreude, capricious and 443 more...
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mandarine's Words
antepenultimate, metonymy, synecdoche, pop, kern, inherit, clique, scrumptious, macerate, murmur, kerning, veranda and 1068 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for pudding.
yarb I prefer pud'n myself. Feb 3, 2010
reesetee With a spoon, of course. Feb 3, 2010
Prolagus How did it go on, again? Feb 3, 2010
bilby As in that marvelous ode, Puddin on the Ritz. Feb 3, 2010
selliebee I prefer the shortened pronunciation of pudd'n' Feb 3, 2010
uselessness How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat? Feb 19, 2007