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.

  • 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.
  • noun The joint of an electric cable inside a junction-box.

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. See Cassia.
  • 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 from blood.
  • noun Any of various dishes, sweet or savoury, prepared by boiling or steaming, or from batter.
  • noun A type of cake or dessert cooked usually by boiling or steaming.
  • noun A type of dessert that has a texture similar to custard or mousse but using some kind of starch as the thickening agent.
  • noun UK, Australia, New Zealand Dessert; the dessert course 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

[Middle English, a kind of sausage, from Old French boudin.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From circa 1305, Middle English poding ("kind of sausage; meat-filled animal stomach") , from French boudin ("blood sausage, black pudding").

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Examples

  • More proof in the pudding is all of the hate groups springing up.

    Think Progress » Media Leaves Stupak’s False Claims About Senate Bill’s Abortion Provision Unchallenged 2010

  • 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

  • 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.

    Most Gulf Oil Is Out Of Site But Not Out Of Mind 2010

  • 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.

    Most Gulf Oil Is Out Of Site But Not Out Of Mind 2010

  • 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.

    Most Gulf Oil Is Out Of Site But Not Out Of Mind 2010

  • But I agree with you .. most times, especially with the chocolate variety, I find that the pudding is always lacking.

    Hot Fudge Pudding Cake 2007

  • 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

  • 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).

    The fleetingness of memes « Squash 2006

  • 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

  • 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

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  • How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat?

    February 19, 2007

  • I prefer the shortened pronunciation of pudd'n'

    February 3, 2010

  • As in that marvelous ode, Puddin on the Ritz.

    February 3, 2010

  • How did it go on, again?

    February 3, 2010

  • With a spoon, of course.

    February 3, 2010

  • I prefer pud'n myself.

    February 4, 2010