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pudding

[ pood-ing ]

noun

  1. a thick, soft dessert, typically containing flour or some other thickener, milk, eggs, a flavoring, and sweetener:

    tapioca pudding.

  2. a similar dish unsweetened and served with or as a main dish:

    corn pudding.

  3. British. the dessert course of a meal.
  4. Nautical. a pad or fender for preventing scraping or chafing or for lessening shock between vessels or other objects.


pudding

/ ˈ±èÊŠ»åɪŋ /

noun

  1. a sweetened usually cooked dessert made in many forms and of various ingredients, such as flour, milk, and eggs, with fruit, etc
  2. a savoury dish, usually soft and consisting partially of pastry or batter

    steak-and-kidney pudding

  3. the dessert course in a meal
  4. a sausage-like mass of seasoned minced meat, oatmeal, etc, stuffed into a prepared skin or bag and boiled
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Derived Forms

  • ˈ±è³Ü»å»å¾±²Ô²µ²â, adjective
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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms

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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of pudding1

1275–1325; Middle English poding kind of sausage; compare Old English puduc wen, sore (perhaps originally swelling), Low German puddewurst black pudding
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of pudding1

C13 poding; compare Old English puduc a wart, Low German puddek sausage
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Idioms and Phrases

see proof of the pudding .
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Example Sentences

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"When I see some of those meals and puddings these days it takes me right back - it's a lovely, nostalgic feeling."

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"But the proof is in the pudding, and we will need to see if that position has changes substantively as well as rhetorically."

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In other words, the proof of the pudding will be in the eating.

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The piquant pudding is one of many foods widely eaten in the Caribbean country that has its origins in Africa and has survived to this day.

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If you go there, you have to sit at the bar and get the prime rib and the Yorkshire pudding and a mezcal margarita.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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