- (British English) a sweet dish eaten at the end of a meal
- What's for pudding?
- I haven't made a pudding today.
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- (British English) a hot sweet dish, often like a cake, made from flour, fat and eggs with fruit, jam, etc. in or on it
- treacle pudding
- (British English) a hot dish like a pie with soft pastry made from flour, fat and eggs and usually filled with meat
- a steak and kidney pudding
- (especially North American English) a cold dessert (= a sweet dish) like cream that tastes of fruit, chocolate, etc.
- chocolate pudding
see also black pudding, Yorkshire pudding
Word OriginMiddle English (denoting a sausage such as black pudding): apparently from Old French boudin ‘black pudding’, from Latin botellus ‘sausage, small intestine’.
Idioms
See pudding in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionaryover-egg the pudding
- used to say that you think somebody has done more than is necessary, or has added unnecessary details to make something seem better or worse than it really is
- If you're telling lies, keep it simple—never over-egg the pudding.
the proof of the pudding (is in the eating) | the proof is in the pudding
- (saying) you can only judge if something is good or bad when you have tried it
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