pudding
nouncommon in dialogue
- United Kingdom//ˈpɵdɪŋ//
- Australia//ˈpʊdɪŋ//
- Scotland//ˈpʉdɪŋ//
- //ˈpʊdɪŋɡ//
Any of various dishes, sweet or savoury, prepared by boiling or steaming or from batter.
noun
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Any of various dishes, sweet or savoury, prepared by boiling or steaming or from batter.
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.
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.
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A type of cake or dessert cooked usually by boiling or steaming.
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.
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A type of dessert that has a texture similar to custard or mousse but using some kind of starch as the thickening agent.
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Dessert; the dessert course of a meal.
Harold Winstanley: Is there any pudding? Doris Winstanley: Oh, yes. Rhubarb cobbler left over from Sunday.
Jane Cavendish: Have you tried some fresh strawberry cheesecake? Tara Cavendish: Nope. I don't eat puddings.
We have apple pie for pudding today.
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A sausage made primarily from blood.
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slangAn overweight person.
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A term of endearment.
"How is my little pudding?" Jehan nuzzles up to me and rests his little head on my shoulder, still chuckling […]
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slangEntrails.
I pray God he may recover, though there is little hopes; as there is of Coll Halley, being shott throw the body; and of Capt. Urquhart of Burdyeyeards, being wounded in the belly, after being made prisoner, soe that his puddings hang out.
PUDDINGS, the guts; I'll let out your puddings.
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obsoleteAny food or victuals.
Eat your pudding, slave, and hold your tongue.
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archaicA piece of good fortune.
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.
Forms
- plural
- puddings
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