Pudding Definition

po͝odĭng
noun
A soft, mushy or creamy food, usually made with a base of flour, cornstarch, cornmeal, etc., and boiled or baked.
Webster's New World
A mixture with a soft, puddinglike consistency.
American Heritage
A sweetened dessert, usually of similar consistency and usually steamed or baked, variously containing eggs, milk, fruit, etc.
Webster's New World
A sausage made of intestine stuffed with meat, suet, etc. and boiled.
Webster's New World
Any dessert.
Webster's New World
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Other Word Forms of Pudding

Noun

Singular:
pudding
Plural:
puddings

Origin of Pudding

  • 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.

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English a kind of sausage from Old French boudin

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Pudding Sentence Examples

  • For dessert, you can enjoy tarts, cake, pie and pudding.

  • A kind of jam-cake, called a "Bakewell pudding," gives another sort of fame to the place.

  • The plague was scarcely stayed before the whole city was in flames, a calamity of the first magnitude, but one which in the end caused much good, as the seeds of disease were destroyed, and London has never since been visited by such an epidemic. On the 2nd of September 1666 the fire broke out at one o'clock in the morning at a house in Pudding Lane.

  • Five cups of coffee later and a full Irish breakfast --without the blood pudding --settling in her stomach, she still couldn't shake the throb.

  • Manufacturers' opium includes any grade yielding not less than 102% of morphine, but the Yoghourma or " pudding " opium, on account of its paste being more difficult to work, is not used for the extraction of the active principles.

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Words Starting With

PPUPUD

Words Ending With

GNGING

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Words Starting With P and Ending With G

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7 Letter Words7 Letter Words Starting With P7 Letter Words Ending With G