pudding

See also: Pudding

English

pudding
A milk pudding from Yee Shun Milk Company in Hong Kong

Etymology

From circa 1305, Middle English poding (“kind of sausage; meat-filled animal stomach”), puddyng, from Old French boudin (“blood sausage, black pudding”).[1]

Pronunciation

  • enPR: po͝odʹing, IPA(key): /ˈpʊd.ɪŋ/
  • Rhymes: -ʊdɪŋ

Noun

pudding (countable and uncountable, plural puddings)

  1. (originally) A sausage made primarily from blood.
  2. Any of various dishes, sweet or savoury, prepared by boiling or steaming, or from batter.
    • 2004, Victoria Wise, The Pressure Cooker Gourmet, page 313,
      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.
    • 2004, Sarah Garland, The Complete Book of Herbs & Spices, page 199,
      Steamed and boiled puddings have formed the basic diet of country people in northern Europe for centuries. Early puddings consisted of the scoured stomach of a sheep or pig, stuffed with its own suet and offal, which has been thickened with oatmeal, and boiled in water or baked in the ashes of a fire.
  3. A type of cake or dessert cooked usually by boiling or steaming.
    • 2007, Magdaleen Van Wyk, The Complete South African Cookbook, page 265,
      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. A type of dessert that has a texture similar to custard or mousse but using some kind of starch as the thickening agent.
  5. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand) Dessert; the dessert course of a meal.
    We have apple pie for pudding today.
  6. (slang) An overweight person.
  7. (slang) Entrails.
  8. (obsolete) Any food or victuals.
    • Prior
      Eat your pudding, slave, and hold your tongue.

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References

  1. ↑ C.T. Onions, ed. The Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology (Oxford: Oxford UP, 1966), 721.
  2. ↑ Robert K. Barnhart & Sol Steinmetz, eds. Barnhart Dictionary of Etymology (Bronx, NY: H. W. Wilson, 1988), 860.

Dutch

Etymology

From English pudding.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpʏ.dɪŋ/
  • Audio(file)
  • Hyphenation: pud‧ding

Noun

pudding m (plural puddingen, diminutive puddinkje n)

  1. A pudding, dessert of the custard-type

Derived terms

  • (by main ingredient) chocoladepudding, vanillepudding

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English pudding. Doublet of boudin.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pu.diŋ/
  • Rhymes: -iŋ

Noun

pudding m (plural puddings)

  1. any dish formed from putting the leftovers of a place such as a bakery together, and mixing them all into one

Further reading

Spanish

Noun

pudding m (plural puddings)

  1. pudding

Swedish

Etymology

From English pudding.

Noun

pudding c

  1. A cake or dessert prepared by boiling or steaming.
  2. Any of various savoury dishes prepared in a similar way to a sweet pudding.
  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. (slang) An attractive person; a hottie.
    Din kompis är en riktig pudding.
    Your friend is a real hottie.

Declension

Declension of pudding 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative pudding puddingen puddingar puddingarna
Genitive puddings puddingens puddingars puddingarnas
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