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pudding

Pronunciation: /ˈpʊdɪŋ/

The English word “pudding” has 10 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. Any of various dishes, sweet or savoury, prepared by boiling or steaming or from batter.
  2. A type of cake or dessert cooked usually by boiling or steaming.
  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. Dessert; the dessert course of a meal.
  5. A sausage made primarily from blood.
  6. An overweight person.
  7. A term of endearment.
  8. Entrails.
  9. Any food or victuals.
  10. A piece of good fortune.

Etymology

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”). Doublet of boudin. * An alternative etymology assumes origin from Proto-Germanic *put-, *pud- (“to swell”) (compare dialectal English pod (“belly”), Old English puduc (“wen, sore”), Low German…

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