pudding

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At last, when the pudding was almost vanishing, I sat down to my hard - earned meal.

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  1. noun A sweet dessert, usually containing flour or a cereal product, that has been boiled, steamed, or baked.
  2. noun A mixture with a soft, puddinglike consistency.
  3. noun A sausagelike preparation made with minced meat or various other ingredients stuffed into a bag or skin and boiled.

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  • The proof in the pudding will be the tracking polls within a few days but the conventional wisdom is Sarah Palin helped John McCain and especially herself as a future candidate with a stellar performance tonight. —  FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog
  • J.W. rightly points out how wonderful these people may be in person - provided you are in apparent agreement with them - but the proof in the pudding is a dreadful mess. —  NYT > Opinion
  • Served with slices of smoky ham or grilled salmon fillets, this pudding is a good late breakfast or brunch dish.
  • Blanche is fond of "scrapping" (scrapbooking) and cooking (tapioca pudding is her specialty, we're told ad nauseam). —  Alliance of Women Film Journalists
  • They were unkind enough to say I had mulled the whole thing, and to promise me untold penalties when they got me in the privacy of the faggery At last, when the pudding was almost vanishing, I sat down to my hard- earned meal. —  Tom, Dick and Harry
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  1. Middle English, a kind of sausage, from Old French boudin.

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  1. Also dial. puddin, pudden; early modern English also poding; from Middle English puddyng, poding; apparently, with accommodation suffix, from Irish putog = Gaelic putag, a pudding; cf. (with different termination) W. poten, a paunch, pudding; cf. also Welsh pwtyn, a short round body, Cornish pot, a bag, pudding, Gaelic put, an inflated skin, a large buoy. The English word may have been in part confused with F. boudin, black-pudding, blood-pudding, roller-pudding (nautical), etc., ult. from Latin botulus, sausage. The F. pouding = Dutch pudding, podding = Low German pudding, pudden, budden = G. Swedish pudding = Danish budding, pudding, are all from English
 

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