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pud⋅ding

  [pood-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.
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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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Dessert
Bake Up Golden Brown, Tender and Flaky Crusts - Just Like Homemade!
www.Pillsbury.com/Pie
Sugar Plum Pudding Java
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pud·ding   (pŏŏd'ĭng)   
n.  

    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.

  2. 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.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Word Origin & History

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.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Idioms & Phrases

pudding

see proof of the pudding.

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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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