pudding

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   any of various soft thick unsweetened baked dishes

   corn pudding

2. 2
   noun

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

   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.

3. 3
   noun

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

   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. 4
   noun

   Dessert; the dessert course of a meal.

   We have apple pie for pudding today.

5. 5
   noun

   A term of endearment.

   "How is my little pudding?" Jehan nuzzles up to me and rests his little head on my shoulder, still chuckling […]

6. 6
   noun

   Entrails.

   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.

7. 7
   noun

   Any food or victuals.

   Eat your pudding, slave, and hold your tongue.

8. 8
   noun

   any of various soft sweet desserts thickened usually with flour and baked or boiled or steamed

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.