pudding

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English

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A plum pudding (a steamed dessert).
A pudding (a dessert using starch as the thickening agent).
A milk pudding from Yee Shun Milk Company in Hong Kong.
Slices of black pudding and white pudding (a type of sausage).

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”).[1] Doublet of boudin.

Pronunciation

Noun

pudding (countable and uncountable, plural puddings)

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. A type of dessert that has a texture similar to custard or mousse but using some kind of starch as the thickening agent.
    Hyponyms: custard, crème caramel, crème brûlée, flan, mousse
  4. (UK, Australia, New Zealand) Dessert; the dessert course of a meal.
    Synonyms: (UK informal) afters, dessert, (UK slang) pud, (UK) sweet
    We have apple pie for pudding today.
  5. (originally) A sausage made primarily from blood.
    Synonyms: (UK) black pudding, blood sausage
  6. (slang) An overweight person.
    Synonyms: fatty, porker; see also Thesaurus:fat person
  7. (endearing) A term of endearment.
    Synonym: dumpling
    • 2005, Ruzbeh N. Bharucha, Rest in Pieces, page 7:
      "How is my little pudding?" Jehan nuzzles up to me and rests his little head on my shoulder, still chuckling […]
  8. (slang) Entrails.
    Synonyms: bowels, guts, innards
    • 1715 November 15, To Mr James Neilsone, opposite the Tolbooth, Berwick; published as “Battle of Sheriffmuir”, in The Edinburgh Magazine, 1818 March, page 241:
      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.
    • [1785, Francis Grose, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue‎[1]:
      PUDDINGS, the guts; I'll let out your puddings.]
  9. (obsolete) Any food or victuals.
    Synonyms: fodder, provisions; see also Thesaurus:food
    • 1718, Matthew Prior, Merry Andrew:
      Eat your pudding, slave, and hold your tongue.
  10. (archaic, slang) A piece of good fortune.
    Synonyms: lucky break, stroke of luck

Derived terms

Descendants

Translations

any dessert — see dessert
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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

Borrowed 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

French

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from English pudding. Doublet of boudin.

Pronunciation

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

Descendants

Further reading

Middle English

Noun

pudding

  1. Alternative form of podynge

Polish

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Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English pudding, from Middle English podynge, from Old French boudin. Doublet of budyń.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpu.diŋk/
  • Rhymes: -udiŋk
  • Syllabification: pu‧dding

Noun

pudding m inan

  1. pudding (boiled or steamed cake or dessert)

Declension

Declension of pudding
singular plural
nominative pudding puddingi
genitive puddingu puddingów
dative puddingowi puddingom
accusative pudding puddingi
instrumental puddingiem puddingami
locative puddingu puddingach
vocative puddingu puddingi

Further reading

  • pudding in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • pudding in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English pudding, from Old French boudin, from Latin botellus (“sausage, small intestine”). Doublet of budín, pudín, and pudin.

Pronunciation

Noun

pudding m (plural puddings)

  1. pudding (particularly British types)

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

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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