Definitions for: Pudding


[n] any of various soft sweet desserts thickened usually with flour and baked or boiled or steamed
[n] any of various soft thick unsweetened baked dishes; "corn pudding"
[n] (British) the dessert course of a meal (`pud' is used informally)



Webster (1913) Definition: Pud"ding, n. [Cf. F. boudin black pudding, sausage, L.
botulus, botellus, a sausage, G. & Sw. pudding pudding, Dan.
podding, pudding, LG. puddig thick, stumpy, W. poten, potten,
also E. pod, pout, v.]
1. A species of food of a soft or moderately hard
consistence, variously made, but often a compound of flour
or meal, with milk and eggs, etc.

And solid pudding against empty praise. --Pope.

2. Anything resembling, or of the softness and consistency
of, pudding.

3. An intestine; especially, an intestine stuffed with meat,
etc.; a sausage. --Shak.

4. Any food or victuals.

Eat your pudding, slave, and hold your tongue.
--Prior.

5. (Naut.) Same as Puddening.

Pudding grass (Bot.), the true pennyroyal ({Mentha
Pulegium}), formerly used to flavor stuffing for roast
meat. --Dr. Prior.

Pudding pie, a pudding with meat baked in it. --Taylor
(1630).

Pudding pipe (Bot.), the long, cylindrical pod of the
leguminous tree Cassia Fistula. The seeds are separately
imbedded in a sweetish pulp. See Cassia.

Pudding sleeve, a full sleeve like that of the English
clerical gown. --Swift.

Pudding stone. (Min.) See Conglomerate, n., 2.

Pudding time.
(a) The time of dinner, pudding being formerly the dish
first eaten. [Obs.] --Johnson.
(b) The nick of time; critical time. [Obs.]

Mars, that still protects the stout, In pudding
time came to his aid. --Hudibras.

Synonyms: pud

See Also: brown Betty, carrot pudding, chocolate pudding, Christmas pudding, corn pudding, dessert, dish, duff, flummery, pease pudding, plum pudding, roly-poly, roly-poly pudding, steamed pudding, suet pudding, tapioca pudding, vanilla pudding

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