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pud⋅ding

[poo

d-ing]

–noun

1.	a thick, soft dessert, typically containing flour or some other thickener, milk, eggs, a flavoring, and sweetener: tapioca pudding.

2.	a similar dish unsweetened and served with or as a main dish: corn pudding.

3.	British. the dessert course of a meal.

4.	Nautical. a pad or fender for preventing scraping or chafing or for lessening shock between vessels or other objects.

Origin:
1275–1325; ME poding kind of sausage; cf. OE puduc wen, sore (perh. orig. swelling), LG puddewurst black pudding

Related forms:

pud⋅ding⋅like, adjective

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pud·ding (pŏŏd'ĭng)

1. A sweet dessert, usually containing flour or a cereal product, that has been boiled, steamed, or baked.
2. A mixture with a soft, puddinglike consistency.
A sausagelike preparation made with minced meat or various other ingredients stuffed into a bag or skin and boiled.

[Middle English, a kind of sausage, from Old French boudin.]

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Pudding

Pud"ding\, n. [Cf. F. boudin black pudding, sausage, L. botulus, botellus, a sausage, G. & Sw. pudding pudding, Dan. podding, pudding, LG. puddig thick, stumpy, W. poten, potten, also E. pod, pout, v.]

1. A species of food of a soft or moderately hard consistence, variously made, but often a compound of flour or meal, with milk and eggs, etc.

And solid pudding against empty praise. --Pope.

2. Anything resembling, or of the softness and consistency of, pudding.

3. An intestine; especially, an intestine stuffed with meat, etc.; a sausage. --Shak.

4. Any food or victuals.

Eat your pudding, slave, and hold your tongue. --Prior.

5. (Naut.) Same as Puddening.

Pudding grass (Bot.), the true pennyroyal (Mentha Pulegium), formerly used to flavor stuffing for roast meat. --Dr. Prior.

Pudding pie, a pudding with meat baked in it. --Taylor (1630).

Pudding pipe (Bot.), the long, cylindrical pod of the leguminous tree Cassia Fistula. The seeds are separately imbedded in a sweetish pulp. See Cassia.

Pudding sleeve, a full sleeve like that of the English clerical gown. --Swift.

Pudding stone. (Min.) See Conglomerate, n., 2.

Pudding time. (a) The time of dinner, pudding being formerly the dish first eaten. [Obs.] --Johnson. (b) The nick of time; critical time. [Obs.]

Mars, that still protects the stout, In pudding time came to his aid. --Hudibras.

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Language Translation for : pudding

Spanish: budín, pudín,

German: der Pudding,

Japanese: プディング

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pudding

c.1305, "a kind of sausage: the stomach or one of the entrails of a pig, sheep, etc., stuffed with minced meat, suet, seasoning, boiled and kept till needed," perhaps from a W.Gmc. stem *pud- "to swell" (cf. O.E. puduc "a wen," Westphalian dial. puddek "lump, pudding," Low Ger. pudde-wurst "black pudding," Eng. dial. pod "belly," also cf. pudgy). Other possibility is that it is from O.Fr. boudin "sausage," from V.L. *botellinus, from L. botellus "sausage" (change of Fr. b- to Eng. p- presents difficulties, but cf. purse). The modern sense had emerged by 1670, from extension to other foods boiled or steamed in a bag or sack. Ger. pudding, Fr. pouding, Swed. pudding, Ir. putog are from Eng. Puddinghead "amiable stupid person" is attested from 1851.

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pudding

any of several foods whose common characteristic is a relatively soft, spongy, and thick texture. In the United States, puddings are nearly always sweet desserts of milk or fruit juice variously flavoured and thickened with cornstarch, arrowroot, flour, tapioca, rice, bread, or eggs. The rarer savoury puddings are thickened vegetable purees, souffle-like dishes, or like corn pudding, custards. Hasty pudding is a cornmeal mush

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