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pudding

See also: Pudding

English edit

 
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A pudding (starch-based dessert).
 
A milk pudding from Yee Shun Milk Company in Hong Kong.

Etymology edit

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”).[1] Doublet of boudin.

Pronunciation edit

  • enPR: po͝odʹing, IPA(key): /ˈpʊd.ɪŋ/
  • Audio (AU)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ʊdɪŋ

Noun edit

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.

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Translations edit

any dessert — see dessert
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References edit

  1. ^ C.T. Onions, ed. The Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology (Oxford: Oxford UP, 1966), 721.
  2. ^ Robert K. Barnhart & Sol Steinmetz, eds. Barnhart Dictionary of Etymology (Bronx, NY: H. W. Wilson, 1988), 860.

Dutch edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from English pudding.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈpʏ.dɪŋ/
  • Audio(file)
  • Hyphenation: pud‧ding

Noun edit

pudding m (plural puddingen, diminutive puddinkje n)

  1. A pudding, dessert of the custard-type

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Etymology edit

Borrowed from English pudding. Doublet of boudin.

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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

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Middle English edit

Noun edit

pudding

  1. Alternative form of podynge

Polish edit

 
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Etymology edit

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

Pronunciation edit

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

Noun edit

pudding m inan

  1. pudding (boiled or steamed cake or dessert)

Declension edit

Declension of pudding
singular plural
nominative pudding puddingi
genitive puddingu puddingów
dative puddingowi puddingom
accusative pudding puddingi
instrumental puddingiem puddingami
locative puddingu puddingach
vocative puddingu puddingi

Further reading edit

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

Spanish edit

Etymology edit

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

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

pudding m (plural puddings)

  1. pudding (particularly British types)

Usage notes edit

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 edit

Etymology edit

From English pudding.

Noun edit

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 edit

Declension of pudding 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative pudding puddingen puddingar puddingarna
Genitive puddings puddingens puddingars puddingarnas
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