pudding
Any of various dishes, sweet or savoury, prepared by boiling or steaming or from batter.
Other meanings
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.
A kind of
- dish
Kinds of pudding
- carrot pudding
- corn pudding
Example sentences
Word history
From Latin "botellus" (sausage, small intestine).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “pudding” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.