pudding

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A sweet, soft dessert, often made with milk, eggs, or flour.

   For dessert we had a warm chocolate pudding.

2. 2
   noun

   The sweet course at the end of a meal; dessert.

   We have apple pie for pudding today.

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Simplified etymology

Pudding comes through Old French boudin “black pudding” from Latin botellus “sausage, small intestine.” Its original English meaning was a kind of sausage, preserved in black pudding. The name was later applied to dishes cooked with ingredients enclosed in a casing or bag, and by the late 19th century it had become especially associated with sweet dishes served at the end of a meal.

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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