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pud·ding

(po͝od′ĭng)

a. A sweet, soft dessert, often with a base of milk or cream thickened by flour, cornstarch, or a cereal product, that has been boiled, steamed, or baked: chocolate pudding; rice pudding.

b. An edible mixture with a soft, puddinglike consistency: corn pudding.

2. Chiefly British

a. A sweet dish eaten at the end of a meal; dessert.

b. A sausagelike preparation made with minced meat or various other ingredients stuffed into a bag or skin and boiled.

[Middle English poding, a kind of sausage, perhaps from Anglo-Norman bodin, sausage (compare Old French boudin), of unknown origin.]

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pudding

(ˈpʊdɪŋ)

1. (Cookery) a sweetened usually cooked dessert made in many forms and of various ingredients, such as flour, milk, and eggs, with fruit, etc

2. (Cookery) a savoury dish, usually soft and consisting partially of pastry or batter: steak-and-kidney pudding.

3. (Cookery) the dessert course in a meal

4. (Cookery) a sausage-like mass of seasoned minced meat, oatmeal, etc, stuffed into a prepared skin or bag and boiled

[C13 poding; compare Old English puduc a wart, Low German puddek sausage]

ˈpuddingy adj

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pud•ding

(ˈpʊd ɪŋ)

n.

1. a soft, thickened dessert, typically made with milk, sugar, flour, and flavoring.

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

3. Brit. the dessert course of a meal.

[1275–1325; Middle English poding kind of sausage; compare Old English puduc wen, sore (perhaps orig., swelling), Low German puddewurst black pudding]

pudding

- Originally a sausage—the stomach or intestine of a pig, sheep, etc.—stuffed with other food.

Pudding

of mallard: a company of mallard on water.

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Noun	1.	pudding - any of various soft thick unsweetened baked dishes; "corn pudding" dish - a particular item of prepared food; "she prepared a special dish for dinner" carrot pudding - pudding made with grated carrots corn pudding - pudding made of corn and cream and egg
	2.	pudding - (British) the dessert course of a meal (`pud' is used informally) pud afters, dessert, sweet - a dish served as the last course of a meal trifle - a cold pudding made of layers of sponge cake spread with fruit or jelly; may be decorated with nuts, cream, or chocolate Britain, Great Britain, U.K., UK, United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland - a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; `Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom
	3.	pudding - any of various soft sweet desserts thickened usually with flour and baked or boiled or steamed afters, dessert, sweet - a dish served as the last course of a meal flummery - a bland custard or pudding especially of oatmeal Christmas pudding, plum pudding - a rich steamed or boiled pudding that resembles cake steamed pudding - a pudding cooked by steaming duff, plum duff - a stiff flour pudding steamed or boiled usually and containing e.g. currants and raisins and citron vanilla pudding - sweet vanilla flavored custard-like pudding usually thickened with flour rather than eggs chocolate pudding - sweet chocolate flavored custard-like pudding usually thickened with flour rather than eggs brown Betty - baked pudding of apples and breadcrumbs Nesselrode, Nesselrode pudding - a rich frozen pudding made of chopped chestnuts and maraschino cherries and candied fruits and liqueur or rum pease pudding - a pudding made with strained split peas mixed with egg tapioca pudding - sweet pudding thickened with tapioca roly-poly pudding, roly-poly - pudding made of suet pastry spread with jam or fruit and rolled up and baked or steamed suet pudding - a sweet or savory pudding made with suet and steamed or boiled

pudding

noun dessert, afters (Brit. informal), sweet, pud (informal), second course, last course I tend to stick to fresh fruit for pudding.

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Translations

بودينغ: حَلْوى من الدَّقيق والحَليبحَلْوى البُودِينْج

pudinkmoučník

buddingdessertpudding=-budding

Pudding Blutwurst Brei Nachspeise Nachtisch

πουτίγγα

budín pudin pudín

vanukasvuokakohokaspaistos

pudding dessert pouding

puding

búîingureftirréttur

budino budino di riso budino natalizio dessert sanguinaccio

プディング

푸딩

pudingas

deserts, saldais ēdienspudiņš

bloedworstpens pudding toetje vla

pudding

budyń deserkaszanka

pudim sobremesa

пудинг

poobedekpuding

blodkorvblodpuddingefterrättpudding

ของหวาน

puding tatlı muhallebi

bánh pudding

布丁

pudding

[ˈpʊdɪŋ]

A. N (= steamed pudding) → pudín m, budín m (Brit) (= dessert) → postre m
see also black D

B. CPD pudding basin N (Brit) → cuenco m
pudding rice N → arroz m redondo

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pudding

[ˈpʊdɪŋ] n

(British) (= sweet) → dessert m
What's for pudding? → Qu'est-ce qu'il y a comme dessert? rice pudding

(sponge) → pudding m
the proof of the pudding (is in the eating) → c'est à l'usage qu'on peut juger

(= sausage) → boudin mpudding basin n (British) → jatte f (dans laquelle on fait cuire le pudding)pudding rice n → riz m rond

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pudding

n (Brit)

(= dessert) → Nachspeise f; (= crème caramel, instant whip etc) → Pudding m; what’s for pudding? → was gibt es als Nachspeise or Nachtisch?

(savoury: = meat in suet) → ˜ (Fleisch)pastete f; black pudding → ˜ Blutwurst f; white pudding → ˜ Presssack m

(inf) (= idiot) → Knallkopp m (inf); (= fatty) → Dickerchen nt

pudding

pudding basin

n → Puddingform f

pudding-basin haircut

n → Topfschnitt m (inf)

pudding club

n to be in the pudding (inf) → einen dicken Bauch haben (inf)

pudding-face

n (inf) → Vollmondgesicht nt (inf)

pudding-head

n (inf) → Knallkopp m (inf)

pudding stone

n → Puddingstein m

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pudding

[ˈpʊdɪŋ] n (dessert) → dolce m, dessert m inv; (steamed pudding) dolce cotto a bagnomaria a base di uova, burro, farina e latte
black pudding, (Am) blood pudding → sanguinaccio
rice pudding → budino di riso

pudding

(ˈpudiŋ) noun

1. any of several types of soft sweet foods made with eggs, flour, milk etc. sponge pudding; rice pudding.

2. the sweet course of a meal; dessert. What's for pudding?

pudding

→ حَلْوى البُودِينْج pudink budding Nachspeise πουτίγγα budín, pudin vanukas pudding puding budino プディング 푸딩 toetje pudding budyń pudim, sobremesa пудинг efterrätt ของหวาน puding bánh pudding 布丁

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