pud‧ding S3 /ˈpʊdɪŋ/
noun [uncountable and countable][
Date: 1200-1300;
Language: Old French;
Origin: boudin, from Latin botellus 'sausage']
1. especially British English a hot sweet dish, made from cake, rice, bread etc with fruit, milk, or other sweet things added
2. especially American English a thick sweet creamy dish, usually made with milk, eggs, sugar, and flour, and served cold:
chocolate pudding3. British English a sweet dish served at the end of a meal
for pudding There’s ice cream for pudding. ⇒
dessert4. British English a hot dish made of a mixture of flour, fat etc, with meat or vegetables inside:
steak and kidney pudding ⇒
black pudding,
Christmas pudding,
milk pudding,
plum pudding,
Yorkshire pudding, ⇒
the proof of the pudding is in the eating at
proof1(4)
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