pudding

English

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pudding

Wikipedia

Etymology

From circa 1305, Middle English podynge (“kind of sausage; meat-filled animal stomach”), puddynge, from Old French boudin (“blood sausage, black pudding”), from Latin botellus (“sausage, small intestine”). Doublet of boudin.

• An alternative etymology assumes origin from Proto-Germanic *put-, *pud- (“to swell”) (compare dialectal English pod (“belly”), Old English puduc (“wen, sore”), Low German puddig (“swollen”), Westphalian Puddek (“lump, pudding”), Puddewurst (“black pudding”). More at pout.

Pronunciation

• enPR: po͝odʹing, IPA^(key): /ˈpʊd.ɪŋ/

• Audio (AU)

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• Rhymes: -ʊdɪŋ

Noun

pudding (countable and uncountable, plural puddings)

1. Any of various dishes, sweet or savoury, prepared by boiling or steaming, or from batter.
   • 2004, Victoria Wise, The Pressure Cooker Gourmet, page 313:

     The dishes in this chapter represent a range of multiethnic savory custards and steamed puddings, including a few surprises like a chèvre popover pudding and a bread pudding with lettuce and cheese.

   • 2004, Sarah Garland, The Complete Book of Herbs & Spices, page 199:

     Steamed and boiled puddings have formed the basic diet of country people in northern Europe for centuries. Early puddings consisted of the scoured stomach of a sheep or pig, stuffed with its own suet and offal, which has been thickened with oatmeal, and boiled in water or baked in the ashes of a fire.

2. A type of cake or dessert cooked usually by boiling or steaming.
   • 2007, Magdaleen Van Wyk, The Complete South African Cookbook, page 265:

     Steamed puddings, a favourite for winter, are both easy to make and delicious. Served with one of the sweet sauces (recipes 497 to 506) they make a filling and satisfying end to a meal.

3. A type of dessert that has a texture similar to custard or mousse but using some kind of starch as the thickening agent.
4. (UK, Australia, New Zealand) Dessert; the dessert course of a meal.

   We have apple pie for pudding today.

5. (originally) A sausage made primarily from blood.
6. (slang) An overweight person.
7. (endearing) A term of endearment.

   Synonym: dumpling

   • 2005, Ruzbeh N. Bharucha, Rest in Pieces, page 7:

     "How is my little pudding?" Jehan nuzzles up to me and rests his little head on my shoulder, still chuckling […]

8. (slang) Entrails. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
9. (obsolete) Any food or victuals.
   • 1718, Matthew Prior, Merry Andrew:

     Eat your pudding, slave, and hold your tongue.

10. (archaic, slang) A piece of good fortune.

Synonyms

• (sausage made from blood): black pudding (UK), blood sausage
• (dessert): afters (UK informal), dessert, pud (UK slang), sweet (British)
• (custard-like dessert): custard, crème caramel, crème brûlée, flan, mousse

Derived terms

Descendants

Translations

References

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English pudding.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpʏ.dɪŋ/

• Audio

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• Hyphenation: pud‧ding

Noun

pudding m (plural puddingen, diminutive puddinkje n)

1. A pudding, dessert of the custard-type

Derived terms

• chocoladepudding
• drilpudding
• griesmeelpudding
• vanillepudding

French

Alternative forms

• pouding (post-1990 spelling)

Etymology

Borrowed from English pudding. Doublet of boudin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pu.diŋ/

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -iŋ

Noun

pudding m (plural puddings)

1. any dish formed from putting the leftovers of a place such as a bakery together, and mixing them all into one

Descendants

• → Romanian: budincă
• → Turkish: puding

Further reading

• “pudding”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

Middle English

Noun

pudding

1. Alternative form of podynge

Polish

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

pudding

Wikipedia ^pl

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English pudding, from Middle English podynge, from Old French boudin. Doublet of budyń.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpu.diŋk/
• Rhymes: -udiŋk
• Syllabification: pu‧dding

Noun

pudding m inan

1. pudding (boiled or steamed cake or dessert)

Declension

Further reading

• pudding in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• pudding in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English pudding, from Old French boudin, from Latin botellus (“sausage, small intestine”). Doublet of budín, pudín, and pudin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpudin/
• Rhymes: -udin
• Homophone: pudin

Noun

pudding m (plural puddings)

1. pudding (particularly British types)

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

Swedish

Etymology

From English pudding.

Noun

pudding c

1. A cake or dessert prepared by boiling or steaming.
2. Any of various savoury dishes prepared in a similar way to a sweet pudding.
3. A type of dessert that has a texture similar to custard or mousse but using some kind of starch as the thickening agent.
4. (slang) An attractive person; a hottie.

   Din kompis är en riktig pudding.

   Your friend is a real hottie.

Declension