Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A sweet dessert, usually containing flour or a cereal product, that has been boiled, steamed, or baked.
- noun A mixture with a soft, puddinglike consistency.
- noun A sweet dish eaten at the end of a meal; dessert.
- noun A sausagelike preparation made with minced meat or various other ingredients stuffed into a bag or skin and boiled.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The joint of an electric cable inside a junction-box.
- To draw together and join inside in a junction-box, as an electric cable.
- noun Minced meat, or blood, properly seasoned, stuffed into an intestine, and cooked by boiling.
- noun A dish consisting of flour or other farinaceous substance with suet, or milk, eggs, etc., sometimes enriched with fruit, as raisins, etc., originally boiled in a bag to a moderately hard consistence, but now made in many other ways.
- noun Nautical, same as
puddening .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun 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.
- noun Anything resembling, or of the softness and consistency of, pudding.
- noun An intestine; especially, an intestine stuffed with meat, etc.; a sausage.
- noun Any food or victuals.
- noun (Naut.) Same as
Puddening . - noun (Bot.) the true pennyroyal (
Mentha Pulegium ), formerly used to flavor stuffing for roast meat. - noun a pudding with meat baked in it.
- noun (Bot.) the long, cylindrical pod of the leguminous tree
Cassia Fistula . The seeds are separately imbedded in a sweetish pulp. SeeCassia . - noun a full sleeve like that of the English clerical gown.
- noun (Min.) See
Conglomerate , n., 2. - noun [Obs.], [Obs.] The nick of time; critical time.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun originally A
sausage made primarily fromblood . - noun Any of various dishes,
sweet orsavoury , prepared byboiling orsteaming , or frombatter . - noun A type of
cake ordessert cooked usually by boiling or steaming. - noun A type of
dessert that has a texture similar tocustard ormousse but using some kind of starch as the thickening agent. - noun UK, Australia, New Zealand
Dessert ; the dessertcourse of a meal. - noun slang An
overweight person. - noun slang Entrails.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (British) the dessert course of a meal (`pud' is used informally)
- noun any of various soft thick unsweetened baked dishes
- noun any of various soft sweet desserts thickened usually with flour and baked or boiled or steamed
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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More proof in the pudding is all of the hate groups springing up.
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The proof in the pudding is the high unemployment rate which when analyzed in detail shows that it's not sourced from increasing layoffs so much as an unwillingness by small business, the real engines of economic growth, to hire when facing the possibility that the person you hire now may be much more expensive to retain in employment a year from now.
A Confession 2010
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And certainly, you're not seeing it at the levels that we saw it, say, a month ago, when there were actually big puddles of what they called pudding-like or mousse-like substance coming and washing up onto beaches.
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And certainly, you're not seeing it at the levels that we saw it, say, a month ago, when there were actually big puddles of what they called pudding-like or mousse-like substance coming and washing up onto beaches.
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And certainly, you're not seeing it at the levels that we saw it, say, a month ago, when there were actually big puddles of what they called pudding-like or mousse-like substance coming and washing up onto beaches.
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But I agree with you .. most times, especially with the chocolate variety, I find that the pudding is always lacking.
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I was going to make myself chocolate-chocolate chip cookies for my birthday, but perhaps banana pudding is the ticket instead.
Comfort me with banana pudding | Homesick Texan Homesick Texan 2007
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For me, the proof in the pudding is the fleetingness of memes (and god I hate to use this term and i apologise profusely for putting in the headline but the blogosphere made me do it).
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For me, the proof in the pudding is the fleetingness of memes (and god I hate to use this term and i apologise profusely for putting in the headline but the blogosphere made me do it).
2006 April « Squash 2006
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Mr Inglis laughed, and told him that they might go fifty times and not catch such another fish as the last; which I forgot to say in the proper place was baked by the cook, with what she called a pudding inside it, and eaten in triumph by the fishing-party, aided by Mrs Inglis, and declared to be the best fish that ever came out of the river.
Hollowdell Grange Holiday Hours in a Country Home George Manville Fenn 1870
uselessness commented on the word pudding
How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat?
February 19, 2007
selliebee commented on the word pudding
I prefer the shortened pronunciation of pudd'n'
February 3, 2010
bilby commented on the word pudding
As in that marvelous ode, Puddin on the Ritz.
February 3, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word pudding
How did it go on, again?
February 3, 2010
reesetee commented on the word pudding
With a spoon, of course.
February 3, 2010
yarb commented on the word pudding
I prefer pud'n myself.
February 4, 2010