English Explanatory Dictionary

pudding

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Any of various dishes, sweet or savoury, prepared by boiling or steaming, or from batter.
  2. A type of cake or dessert cooked usually by boiling or steaming.
  3. A type of dessert that has a texture similar to custard or mousse but using some kind of starch as the thickening agent.
  4. Dessert; the dessert course of a meal.
  5. A sausage made primarily from blood.
  6. An overweight person.
  7. A term of endearment.
  8. Entrails.
  9. Any food or victuals.
  10. A piece of good fortune.

Pronunciation

po͝odʹing /ˈpʊdɪŋ/ en-au-pudding.ogg /ˈpɵdɪŋ/ /ˈpʊdɪŋɡ/ /ˈpʉdɪŋ/

Word forms

pudding puddings

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.

Synonyms

afters dessert pud sweet black pudding blood sausage fatty porker All are derogatory unless otherwise labeled butterball chubbs chubster chunker chunky monkey elephant fat fatfuck fatso fattie fatty bom bom fatty boombalatty fat-ass fatass fat fuck fatshit fussock gorbelly hambeast hamplanet heffalump landwhale lardass lardbucket lardo oinker obeast pig podge pudge roly-poly salad dodger swagbelly thunder thighs tubbalard tubba lard tubbo tub of guts tub of lard whale dumpling bowels guts innards fodder provisions aliment bait belly-timber chow comestibles

Derived words

amber pudding bag pudding Bakewell pudding banana pudding batter pudding bird's nest pudding black pudding blood pudding bread-and-butter pudding bread and butter pudding bread pudding cabinet pudding castle pudding chancellor's pudding Christmas pudding corn pudding cottage pudding diplomat pudding dock pudding Europudding Eve's pudding figgy pudding gooseberry pudding groaty pudding groaty-pudding gut-pudding hasty-pudding hasty pudding hog's pudding Indian pudding in the pudding club jack pudding Lunenburg pudding macaroni pudding magic pudding malva pudding Malvern pudding Manchester pudding mango pudding milk pudding minute pudding moonshine pudding nervous pudding Nesselrode pudding nursery pudding omnibus pudding over-egg the pudding overegg the pudding pease pudding peas pudding plum pudding plum pudding dog plum pudding model pock-pudding pudding and tame pudding basin pudding-basin pudding basin haircut pudding-bowl pudding bowl

Translations

Arabic: بُودِنْغ Bulgarian: пудинг Burmese: ပူတင်း Chinese Cantonese: 布甸 Chinese Mandarin: 布丁 Chinese Mandarin: 布甸 Danish: budding Finnish: kohokas French: pudding Galician: pudin Galician: vincha Galician: bandullo Galician: calleiro German: Pudding Ancient Greek: κυκεών Hindi: पुडिंग Hungarian: puding Indonesian: puding Irish: milseán Japanese: プリン Japanese: プディング Javanese: pudhing Javanese: puding Korean: 푸딩 Latin: apothermum Māori: purini Michif: poutchine Norwegian Bokmål: pudding Persian: پودینگ Polish: pudding Portuguese: pudim Romanian: budincă Russian: пу́динг Scottish Gaelic: mìlsean Serbo-Croatian: пу̀динг Serbo-Croatian: pùding Swedish: pudding Urdu: پڈنگ
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