puddingnoun
uk/ˈpʊd.ɪŋ/us/ˈpʊd.ɪŋ/pudding noun (SWEET FOOD)
B2 [ C or U ] mainly UK a sweet and usually hot dish made with pastry, flour, bread, or rice, and often fruit:
a sticky toffee/treacle pudding
Is there any more rice pudding?
[ U ] US a sweet, soft food made from milk, sugar, eggs, and flavouring, eaten cold:
chocolate/vanilla/butterscotch pudding
[ U ] UK informal pud the final part of a meal, when a sweet dish is eaten:
What's for pudding?
I thought we'd have trifle for pudding.
Synonym
dessert
More examples
- The pudding was delicately flavoured with vanilla.
- Any more pudding would simply be excessive.
- Grate some nutmeg on top of the pudding.
- That rice pudding was the first solid food he's eaten since his operation.
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Puddings, desserts & ices
- baked Alaska
- baklava
- banana split
- banoffee pie
- blancmange
- Eton mess
- flan
- fool
- fruit salad
- granita
- peach Melba
- plum pudding
- Popsicle
- rice pudding
- sago
- tapioca
- tiramisù
- trifle
- water ice
- zabaglione
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Meals & parts of meals
pudding noun (NON-SWEET FOOD)
[ C or U ] UK informal pud a hot dish made with pastry or flour that contains or is eaten with meat:
steak and kidney pudding
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Savoury dishes
- baked beans
- balti
- bobotie
- bolognese
- bubble and squeak
- fish and chips
- fondue
- French toast
- fricassee
- fry-up
- omelette
- paella
- pakora
- pate
- pilau
- sticky rice
- stir-fry
- stroganoff
- sushi
- tabbouleh
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Idiom(s)
be in the pudding club
over-egg the pudding