Library / English Dictionary

PUDDING

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of various soft sweet desserts thickened usually with flour and baked or boiled or steamed

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("pudding" is a kind of...):

afters; dessert; sweet (a dish served as the last course of a meal)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pudding"):

flummery (a bland custard or pudding especially of oatmeal)

Christmas pudding; plum pudding (a rich steamed or boiled pudding that resembles cake)

steamed pudding (a pudding cooked by steaming)

duff; plum duff (a stiff flour pudding steamed or boiled usually and containing e.g. currants and raisins and citron)

vanilla pudding (sweet vanilla flavored custard-like pudding usually thickened with flour rather than eggs)

chocolate pudding (sweet chocolate flavored custard-like pudding usually thickened with flour rather than eggs)

brown Betty (baked pudding of apples and breadcrumbs)

Nesselrode; Nesselrode pudding (a rich frozen pudding made of chopped chestnuts and maraschino cherries and candied fruits and liqueur or rum)

pease pudding (a pudding made with strained split peas mixed with egg)

tapioca pudding (sweet pudding thickened with tapioca)

roly-poly; roly-poly pudding (pudding made of suet pastry spread with jam or fruit and rolled up and baked or steamed)

suet pudding (a sweet or savory pudding made with suet and steamed or boiled)

Sense 2

Meaning:

(British) the dessert course of a meal ('pud' is used informally)

Synonyms:

pud; pudding

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("pudding" is a kind of...):

afters; dessert; sweet (a dish served as the last course of a meal)

Domain region:

Britain; Great Britain; U.K.; UK; United Kingdom; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; 'Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pudding"):

trifle (a cold pudding made of layers of sponge cake spread with fruit or jelly; may be decorated with nuts, cream, or chocolate)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Any of various soft thick unsweetened baked dishes

Example:

corn pudding

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("pudding" is a kind of...):

dish (a particular item of prepared food)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pudding"):

carrot pudding (pudding made with grated carrots)

corn pudding (pudding made of corn and cream and egg)

Credits

 Context examples: 

"Well, I like that! Where's the beef and vegetables I sent home, and the pudding you promised?" cried John, rushing to the larder.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

In the first course, there was a shoulder of mutton cut into an equilateral triangle, a piece of beef into a rhomboides, and a pudding into a cycloid.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties, and a field for their efforts, as much as their brothers do; they suffer from too rigid a restraint, too absolute a stagnation, precisely as men would suffer; and it is narrow-minded in their more privileged fellow-creatures to say that they ought to confine themselves to making puddings and knitting stockings, to playing on the piano and embroidering bags.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

When we had done, he brought me a pudding, and having set it before me, seemed to ruminate, and to become absent in his mind for some moments.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Then he asked his wife for more pudding, and as he ate, he threw the bones under the table.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

"Now you have been good children, and I'll play anything you like," says Meg, as she leads her assistant cooks upstairs, when the pudding is safely bouncing in the pot.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

“You don't mean to say it's a batter-pudding!”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

And she took the little boy and cut him up, made him into puddings, and put him in the pot.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

So was the plum pudding, which melted in one's mouth, likewise the jellies, in which Amy reveled like a fly in a honeypot.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

“It's a pudding,” I made answer.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)