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pudding
/ˈpʊdɪŋ/
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What does pudding mean?
noun
- Any of various dishes, sweet or savoury, prepared by boiling or steaming or from batter.
- A type of cake or dessert cooked usually by boiling or steaming.
- A type of dessert that has a texture similar to custard or mousse but using some kind of starch as the thickening agent.
More meanings (7)
noun
- Dessert; the dessert course of a meal.
- A sausage made primarily from blood.
- (slang) An overweight person.
- A term of endearment.
- (slang) Entrails.
- (obsolete) Any food or victuals.
- (archaic, slang) A piece of good fortune.
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IPA pronunciation
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One morning Mrs. Kirk, mixing a pudding, nearly started out of her skin as she heard the thud, thud, in her grate.
Mr. K. says that the first thing he said to him this morning was, "Will Miss B. make us a nice pudding to-day?"
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It was a stout pale pudding, heavy and flabby, and with great flat raisins in it, stuck in whole at wide distances apart.
ADOPTING the phrase of our forefathers, with all its force and brevity, we say, "The proof of the pudding is in the eating."