A pudding is a cooked sweet food made with flour, fat, and eggs, and usually served hot.
...a cherry sponge pudding with warm custard.
2. variable noun
Some people refer to the sweet course of a meal as the pudding.
[British]
...a menu featuring canapes, a starter, a main course and a pudding.
I tend to stick to fresh fruit for pudding.
Synonyms: dessert, afters [British, informal], sweet, pud [informal] More Synonyms of pudding
3. See also Yorkshire pudding
4.
See the proof of the pudding
pudding in British English
(ˈpʊdɪŋ)
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
Derived forms
puddingy (ˈpuddingy)
adjective
Word origin
C13 poding; compare Old English puduc a wart, Low German puddek sausage
pudding in American English
(ˈpʊdɪŋ)
noun
1. Scottish and North England
a sausage made of intestine stuffed with meat, suet, etc. and boiled
2.
a soft, mushy or creamy food, usually made with a base of flour, cornstarch, cornmeal, etc., and boiled or baked
3.
a sweetened dessert, usually of similar consistency and usually steamed or baked, variously containing eggs, milk, fruit, etc.
4. Chiefly British
a.
any dessert
b.
the dessert course of a meal
Word origin
ME puddyng, altered < ? OFr boudin, black pudding < VL *botellinus < LL botellus: see bowel
pudding in Hospitality
(pʊdɪŋ)
Word forms: (regular plural) puddings
noun (count) (noncount)
(Hospitality (hotel): Food and drink, dining)
A pudding is a cooked sweet food made from ingredients such as milk, sugar, flour, and eggs,and is served either hot or cold.
The desserts included a baked apple pudding.
Have a hot banana pudding after your main meal.
I prefer a cold pudding such as chocolate mousse.
More idioms containing
pudding
the proof of the pudding is in the eating
over-egg the pudding
Examples of 'pudding' in a sentence
pudding
Fruit pudding with cream, but the sweetness is held in check.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Place the pudding dish in the roasting tray and bake for 45 minutes until the custard has set and the top is golden.
The Sun (2016)
Pour the remaining syrup over the hot puddings and serve with the hot custard.
The Sun (2014)
The smell of the fruit as the pudding cooks will drive you crazy with anticipation.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Pour the pudding batter over the jelly.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
We closed off with plum pudding made without milk or eggs.
Gavin Weightman THE FROZEN WATER TRADE (2002)
Spoon on top of the fruit in the pudding basin.
The Sun (2014)
You need the oil to get smoking hot before adding the batter or the puddings will not rise.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
She eats a fried egg sandwich in the morning and has a hot dinner with pudding and custard.
The Sun (2007)
Anything less than five hours and reclining is as socially unacceptable as having a cheese course before the pudding.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
Roll out the pastry on a lightly floured surface and cut out six lids just slightly larger than the pudding dishes.
The Sun (2015)
The nation has gone pie, pastry and pudding potty!
The Sun (2012)
The average British family was said to consume less than one hot pudding annually.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
Maybe 75 dishes including puddings and sides.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
Sales of hot puddings, soup and warming ready meals have soared in the past three weeks.
The Sun (2015)
Her main course and pudding were lower in fat too, so better for anyone watching their weight.
The Sun (2008)
Classic puddings Comfort food grows up.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
I loved pizza, ready meals and sponge puddings for dessert.
The Sun (2015)
I also love sweet seasonal puddings, such as warm doughnuts or fritters.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
The proof of the pudding, of course, will be in the eating.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
He cooked a faultless three-course menu of octopus, stuffed chicken leg and a filo pastry pudding.
The Sun (2016)
Cheap, sweet pudding wines are essential with all those English summer fruits ripening.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
In a food processor, whizz together the pudding, milk and egg yolks.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
At the first interval the Prince and his guests eat the first two courses, then pudding and coffee is served during the second.
Brian Hoey AT HOME WITH THE QUEEN: The Inside Story of the Royal Household (2002)
In other languages
pudding
British English: pudding /ˈpʊdɪŋ/ NOUN
A pudding is a cooked sweet food made with flour, fat, and eggs, and usually served hot.
...a banana vanilla pudding.
American English: pudding
Arabic: حَلْوى البُودِينْج
Brazilian Portuguese: pudim
Chinese: 布丁
Croatian: puding
Czech: pudink
Danish: budding
Dutch: toetje
European Spanish: pudin
Finnish: vanukas
French: pudding
German: Nachspeise
Greek: πουτίγγα
Italian: budino
Japanese: プディング
Korean: 푸딩
Norwegian: pudding
Polish: budyń
European Portuguese: sobremesa
Romanian: budincă
Russian: пудинг
Latin American Spanish: budín
Swedish: efterrätt
Thai: ของหวาน
Turkish: puding
Ukrainian: пудинг
Vietnamese: bánh pudding
All related terms of 'pudding'
black pudding
Black pudding is a thick sausage which has a black skin and is made from pork fat and pig's blood.
blood pudding
Blood pudding is another word for → black pudding .
bread pudding
a rich cake made with bread soaked in milk, eggs, dried fruit and spices and baked , usually eaten cold
Eve's pudding
a baked sponge pudding with a layer of apple at the bottom
hasty pudding
a simple pudding made from milk thickened with tapioca , semolina , etc, and sweetened
milk pudding
a hot or cold pudding made by boiling or baking milk with a grain, esp rice
pease pudding
(esp in Britain) a dish of split peas that have been soaked and boiled served with ham or pork
plum pudding
Plum pudding is a special pudding eaten at Christmas which is made with dried fruit, spices , and suet.
pudding basin
A pudding basin is a deep round bowl that is used in the kitchen, especially for mixing or for cooking puddings.
pudding club
the state of being pregnant (esp in the phrase in the pudding club )
pudding-face
a human face that is big and fat and resembles a pudding
pudding-head
a person lacking intelligence
pudding rice
a type of short-grained rice that is suitable for making into a rice pudding
pudding stone
a conglomerate rock in which there is a difference in colour or composition between the pebbles and the matrix
rice pudding
Rice pudding is a dessert which is made from rice, milk, and sugar .
sago pudding
a sweet pudding made with sago and milk
snow pudding
a kind of fluffy pudding made with beaten egg whites, sugar , and gelatin or cornstarch
suet pudding
any of a variety of sweet or savoury puddings made with suet and steamed or boiled
white pudding
(in Britain ) a kind of sausage made like black pudding but without pigs ' blood
cabinet pudding
a steamed suet pudding containing dried fruit
college pudding
a baked or steamed suet pudding containing dried fruit and spice
cottage pudding
plain cake covered with a sweet sauce
frozen pudding
a frozen or chilled dessert mixture of rich custard , nuts or candied fruit, and sometimes liquor
Indian pudding
a cornmeal pudding made with milk , molasses , etc.
sponge pudding
a light steamed or baked pudding , spongy in texture , made with various flavourings or fruit
steamed pudding
a traditional pudding containing fat, sugar, eggs, flour , and other ingredients , which is steamed
summer pudding
a pudding made by filling a bread-lined basin with a purée of fruit, leaving it to soak , and then turning it out
treacle pudding
a sponge cake with syrup on top
Christmas pudding
Christmas pudding is a special pudding that is eaten at Christmas.
Yorkshire pudding
Yorkshire pudding is a British food which is made by baking a thick liquid mixture of flour, milk, and eggs. It is often eaten with roast beef.
over-egg the pudding
to try so hard to improve something that you spoil it, for example by making it seem exaggerated or extreme
bread-and-butter pudding
a pudding made by soaking layers of bread and butter scattered with currants or raisins in a mixture of milk, beaten egg, and sugar and baking the result
steak and kidney pudding
beefsteak and kidney in a suet pastry crust , steamed in a basin .
golden shower
a tree, Cassia fistula , of the legume family, native to India, having long, drooping clusters of yellow flowers
the proof of the pudding is in the eating
said to mean that something new can only be judged to be good or bad after it has been tried or used
sponge
Sponge is a very light soft substance with lots of little holes in it, which can be either artificial or natural . It is used to clean things or as a soft layer .
the proof of the pudding the proof of the pudding is in the eating
If you say the proof of the pudding or the proof of the pudding is in the eating , you mean that something new can only be judged to be good or bad after it has been tried or used.
Chinese translation of 'pudding'
pudding
(ˈpudɪŋ)
n
(c/u) (= type of dessert) 布丁 (bùdīng)
(c/u) (Brit, = dessert in general) 甜点(點) (tiándiǎn) (份, fèn)
rice pudding米饭(飯)布丁 (mǐfàn bùdīng)
black pudding or (US) blood pudding黑血肠(腸) (hēixuècháng)