单词 | pudding |
释义 | pudding n.   1. a any of various sweet cooked dishes (plum pudding; rice pudding). b a savoury dish containing flour, suet, etc. (Yorkshire pudding; steak and kidney pudding). c the sweet course of a meal. d the intestines of a pig etc. stuffed with oatmeal, spices, blood, etc. (black pudding).   2. colloq. a person or thing resembling a pudding.   3. (Naut. puddening) a pad or tow binding to prevent chafing etc. Phrases and idioms in the pudding club sl. pregnant. pudding-cloth a cloth used for tying up some puddings for boiling. pudding face colloq. a large fat face. pudding-head colloq. a stupid person. pudding-stone a conglomerate rock consisting of rounded pebbles in a siliceous matrix. Derivatives puddingy adj. Etymology: ME poding f. OF boudin black pudding ult. f. L botellus sausage: see BOWEL |
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