pudding
pronunciation
How to pronounce pudding in British English:
UK [ˈpʊdɪŋ]
How to pronounce pudding in American English:
US [ˈpʊdɪŋ]
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- Noun:
- any of various soft thick unsweetened baked dishes
- (British) the dessert course of a meal (`pud' is used informally)
- any of various soft sweet desserts thickened usually with flour and baked or boiled or steamed
Word Origin
- pudding
- pudding: [13] The original puddings were sausages – whose present-day survivor is the black pudding. They were encased in the intestines or stomachs of animals, and it was this casing that provided the spring-board for the word’s subsequent development in meaning. It came to be applied to any food cooked in a bag (hence the cannon-ball shape of the traditional Christmas pudding).Such dishes could be savoury (like today’s steak-and-kidney pudding) or sweet, but it was not until the 20th century that pudding came to be used specifically for the ‘sweet course of a meal’. The word comes via Old French boudin from Vulgar Latin *botellīnus, a diminutive form of Latin botellus ‘sausage’ (source of English botulism).=> botulism
- pudding (n.)
- c. 1300, "a kind of sausage: the stomach or one of the entrails of a pig, sheep, etc., stuffed with minced meat, suet, seasoning, boiled and kept till needed," perhaps from a West Germanic stem *pud- "to swell" (cognates: Old English puduc "a wen," Westphalian dialect puddek "lump, pudding," Low German pudde-wurst "black pudding," English dialectal pod "belly;" also see pudgy). Other possibility is the traditional one that it is from Old French boudin "sausage," from Vulgar Latin *botellinus, from Latin botellus "sausage" (change of French b- to English p- presents difficulties, but compare purse (n.)). The modern sense had emerged by 1670, from extension to other foods boiled or steamed in a bag or sack (16c.). German pudding, French pouding, Swedish pudding, Irish putog are from English. Pudding-pie attested from 1590s.
Example
- 1. If you don 't eat it , no pudding .
- 2. To end , there was an appropriately healthy pudding : red jacket apricots , accompanied by white house honey sorbet .
- 3. Pudding is very important in the christmas traditions of great britain .
- 4. For dessert , he liked bread pudding with raspberries .
- 5. Unlike india we feel no need to eat antibiotics for pudding .