pudding

See also: Pudding

English

A plum pudding (a steamed dessert)

A pudding (a dessert using starch as the thickening agent)

A milk pudding from Yee Shun Milk Company in Hong Kong

Slices of black pudding and white pudding (a type of sausage)

Etymology

From circa 1305, Middle English podynge (“kind of sausage; meat-filled animal stomach”), puddynge, from Old French boudin (“blood sausage, black pudding”), from Latin botellus (“sausage, small intestine”). Doublet of boudin.

• An alternative etymology assumes origin from Proto-Germanic *put-, *pud- (“to swell”) (compare dialectal English pod (“belly”), Old English puduc (“wen, sore”), Low German puddig (“swollen”), Westphalian Puddek (“lump, pudding”), Puddewurst (“black pudding”). More at pout.

Pronunciation

• enPR: po͝odʹing, IPA^(key): /ˈpʊd.ɪŋ/

• Audio (General Australian):

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• Rhymes: -ʊdɪŋ

Noun

pudding (countable and uncountable, plural puddings)

1. Any of various dishes, sweet or savoury, prepared by boiling or steaming, or from batter.
   • 2004, Victoria Wise, The Pressure Cooker Gourmet, page 313:

     The dishes in this chapter represent a range of multiethnic savory custards and steamed puddings, including a few surprises like a chèvre popover pudding and a bread pudding with lettuce and cheese.

   • 2004, Sarah Garland, The Complete Book of Herbs & Spices, page 199:

     Steamed and boiled puddings have formed the basic diet of country people in northern Europe for centuries. Early puddings consisted of the scoured stomach of a sheep or pig, stuffed with its own suet and offal, which has been thickened with oatmeal, and boiled in water or baked in the ashes of a fire.

2. A type of cake or dessert cooked usually by boiling or steaming.
   • 2007, Magdaleen Van Wyk, The Complete South African Cookbook, page 265:

     Steamed puddings, a favourite for winter, are both easy to make and delicious. Served with one of the sweet sauces (recipes 497 to 506) they make a filling and satisfying end to a meal.

3. A type of dessert that has a texture similar to custard or mousse but using some kind of starch as the thickening agent.

   Hyponyms: custard, crème caramel, crème brûlée, flan, mousse

4. (UK, Australia, New Zealand) Dessert; the dessert course of a meal.

   Synonyms: (UK informal) afters, dessert, (UK slang) pud, (UK) sweet

   We have apple pie for pudding today.

5. (originally) A sausage made primarily from blood.

   Synonyms: (UK) black pudding, blood sausage

6. (slang) An overweight person.

   Synonyms: fatty, porker; see also Thesaurus:fat person

7. (endearing) A term of endearment.

   Synonym: dumpling

   • 2005, Ruzbeh N. Bharucha, Rest in Pieces, page 7:

     "How is my little pudding?" Jehan nuzzles up to me and rests his little head on my shoulder, still chuckling […]

8. (slang) Entrails.

   Synonyms: bowels, guts, innards

   • 1715 November 15, To Mr James Neilsone, opposite the Tolbooth, Berwick; published as “Battle of Sheriffmuir”, in The Edinburgh Magazine, 1818 March, page 241:

     I pray God he may recover, though there is little hopes; as there is of Coll Halley, being shott throw the body; and of Capt. Urquhart of Burdyeyeards, being wounded in the belly, after being made prisoner, soe that his puddings hang out.

   • [1785, Francis Grose, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue‎^[1]:

     PUDDINGS, the guts; I'll let out your puddings.]

9. (obsolete) Any food or victuals.

   Synonyms: fodder, provisions; see also Thesaurus:food

   • 1718, Matthew Prior, Merry Andrew:

     Eat your pudding, slave, and hold your tongue.

10. (archaic, slang) A piece of good fortune.

    Synonyms: lucky break, stroke of luck

Derived terms

• amber pudding
• bag pudding
• Bakewell pudding
• banana pudding
• bird's nest pudding
• black pudding
• blood pudding
• bread and butter pudding
• bread-and-butter pudding
• bread pudding
• cabinet pudding
• chancellor's pudding
• Christmas pudding
• corn pudding
• cottage pudding
• diplomat pudding
• dock pudding
• Europudding
• Eve's pudding
• figgy pudding
• gooseberry pudding
• groaty pudding
• groaty-pudding
• gut-pudding
• hasty pudding
• hasty-pudding
• hog's pudding
• Indian pudding
• in the pudding club
• jack pudding
• Lunenburg pudding
• macaroni pudding
• magic pudding
• malva pudding
• Malvern pudding
• Manchester pudding
• mango pudding
• milk pudding
• minute pudding
• moonshine pudding
• nervous pudding
• nursery pudding
• omnibus pudding
• over-egg the pudding
• pease pudding
• peas pudding
• plum pudding
• plum pudding dog
• plum pudding model
• pock-pudding
• pudding and tame
• pudding-basin
• pudding basin
• pudding basin haircut
• pudding-bowl
• pudding bowl
• pudding-brain
• pudding-brained
• pudding chomeur
• pudding-faced
• pudding grass
• pudding-headed
• puddingish
• puddingless
• puddinglike
• pudding pie
• pudding pop
• pudding rice
• pudding-sleeve
• pudding sleeve
• pudding-snammer
• pudding spice
• puddingstone
• pudding stone
• puddingstone
• pudding time
• puddingy
• quaking pudding
• queen of puddings
• queen's pudding
• rag pudding
• red pudding
• rice pudding
• sago pudding
• sawdust pudding
• sea pudding
• semolina pudding
• snow pudding
• sponge pudding
• steak and kidney pudding
• steamed pudding
• sticky toffee pudding
• suet pudding
• summer pudding
• Sussex pond pudding
• tapioca pudding
• the proof is in the pudding
• the proof of the pudding is in the eating
• too much pudding will choke a dog
• Tottenham pudding
• treacle pudding
• white pudding
• Yorkshire pudding

Descendants

• → Belarusian: пу́дынг (púdynh)
• → Burmese: ပူတင်း (putang:)
• → Chinese: 布丁 (bùdīng), 布甸 (bùdiàn)
• → Esperanto: pudingo
• → Estonian: puding
• → French: poudingue
  • → Italian: puddinga
• →? French: poutine (semantic loan)
• → French: pudding, pouding (post-1990 spelling)
  • → Romanian: budincă
  • → Turkish: puding
• → Dutch: pudding
• → German: Pudding
• → Japanese: プディング (pudingu), プリン (purin)
• → Latvian: pudiņš
• → Lithuanian: pudingas
• →? Michif: poutchine
• → Polish: pudding
• → Portuguese: pudim
• → Russian: пу́динг (púding)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: пу̀динг

  Latin script: pùding

• → Spanish: budín, pudding, pudin, pudín
• → Swedish: pudding
• → Ukrainian: пу́динг (púdynh), пу́ндик (púndyk)
• → Welsh: pwdin

Translations

sausage made primarily from blood

• Bulgarian: кървавица (bg) f (kǎrvavica)
• Danish: blodpølse (da) c
• Dutch: bloedworst (nl), pens (nl)
• Finnish: verimakkara (fi)
• French: boudin (fr) m
• Galician: morcilla (gl) f
• German: Blutwurst (de) f
• Greek:

  Ancient: φύσκη f (phúskē)

• Hungarian: véres hurka
• Icelandic: blóðmör (is) m, slátur n
• Irish: maróg f, putóg (ga) f
• Italian: sanguinaccio (it) m
• Luxembourgish: Träip f
• Norwegian: blodpudding
• Polish: kaszanka (pl) f
• Portuguese: morcela (pt) f
• Russian: кровяна́я колбаса́ (ru) f (krovjanája kolbasá)
• Scottish Gaelic: marag f
• Spanish: morcilla (es) f
• Swedish: blodkorv c, blodpudding (sv) c

boiled or steamed cake or dessert

• Arabic: بُودِنْغ m (budinḡ)
• Bulgarian: пудинг m (puding)
• Burmese: ပူတင်း (my) (putang:)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 布甸 (bou⁶ din¹)

  Mandarin: 布丁 (zh) (bùdīng), 布甸 (zh) (bùdiàn)

• Danish: budding c
• Finnish: kohokas (fi)
• French: pudding (fr) m
• Galician: pudin m, vincha f, bandullo (gl) m, calleiro (gl) m
• German: Pudding (de) m
• Greek:

  Ancient: κυκεών m (kukeṓn)

• Hindi: पुडिंग (puḍiṅg)
• Hungarian: puding (hu)
• Irish: milseán (ga) m
• Japanese: プリン (ja) (purin), プディング (ja) (pudingu)
• Korean: 푸딩 (ko) (puding)
• Latin: apothermum n
• Maori: purini
• Michif: poutchine
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: pudding m

• Persian: پودینگ (fa) (puding)
• Polish: pudding (pl) m
• Portuguese: pudim (pt) m
• Romanian: budincă (ro) f
• Russian: пу́динг (ru) m (púding)
• Scottish Gaelic: mìlsean m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: пу̀динг m

  Roman: pùding (sh) m

• Swedish: pudding (sv) c
• Urdu: پڈنگ (puḍiṅg)

savoury dish prepared like a sweet pudding

• Dutch: pudding (nl) m, vla (nl)
• Finnish: vuoka (fi), paistos (fi)
• Irish: maróg f
• Maori: purini
• Marathi: खीर f (khīr)
• Russian: пу́динг (ru) m (púding)
• Scottish Gaelic: marag f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: пу̀динг m

  Roman: pùding (sh) m

• Swedish: pudding (sv) c

dessert similar to custard or mousse, containing a starchy thickening agent

• Bulgarian: пудинг m (puding)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 布甸 (bou⁶ din¹)

  Mandarin: 布丁 (zh) (bùdīng)

• Czech: pudink (cs) m
• Danish: budding c
• Dutch: pudding (nl) m
• Finnish: vanukas (fi)
• French: pudding (fr) m
• German: Pudding (de) m
• Greenlandic: puutinngi
• Icelandic: búðingur (is) m
• Ido: puding (io)
• Italian: budino (it) m
• Japanese: プリン (ja) (purin), プディング (ja) (pudingu)
• Korean: 푸딩 (ko) (puding)
• Luxembourgish: Pudding m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: pudding m

• Polish: budyń (pl) m
• Portuguese: pudim (pt) m
• Russian: пу́динг (ru) m (púding)
• Spanish: pudin (es) m, pudín (es) m
• Swedish: pudding (sv) c
• Tagalog: puding

any dessert — see dessert

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• German: ^{(please verify)} Pudding (de) m (1, 2, 4) ^{(please verify)} Auflauf (de) m, ^{(please verify)} Terrine (de) f, ^{(please verify)} Pastete (de) f (3)

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English pudding.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpʏ.dɪŋ/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: pud‧ding

Noun

pudding m (plural puddingen, diminutive puddinkje n)

1. pudding (type of dessert)

Derived terms

• chocoladepudding
• drilpudding
• griesmeelpudding
• puddingbroodje
• vanillepudding

French

Alternative forms

• pouding (post-1990 spelling)

Etymology

Borrowed from English pudding. Doublet of boudin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pu.diŋ/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -iŋ

Noun

pudding m (plural puddings)

1. any dish formed from putting the leftovers of a place such as a bakery together, and mixing them all into one

Descendants

• → Romanian: budincă
• → Turkish: puding

Further reading

• “pudding”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Middle English

Noun

pudding

1. Alternative form of podynge

Polish

pudding

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English pudding. Doublet of budyń.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpu.diŋk/
• Rhymes: -udiŋk
• Syllabification: pu‧dding

Noun

pudding m inan

1. pudding (type of cake or dessert cooked usually by boiling or steaming)

Declension

Declension of pudding

	singular	plural
nominative	pudding	puddingi
genitive	puddingu	puddingów
dative	puddingowi	puddingom
accusative	pudding	puddingi
instrumental	puddingiem	puddingami
locative	puddingu	puddingach
vocative	puddingu	puddingi

Further reading

• pudding in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• pudding in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• pudding in PWN's encyclopedia

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English pudding, from Old French boudin, from Latin botellus (“sausage, small intestine”). Doublet of budín, pudín, and pudin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpudin/ [ˈpu.ð̞ĩn]
• Rhymes: -udin
• Homophone: pudin

Noun

pudding m (plural puddings)

1. pudding (particularly British types)

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from English pudding.

Noun

pudding c

1. pudding
   1. A cake or dessert prepared by boiling or steaming.
   2. Any of various savoury dishes prepared in a similar way to a sweet pudding.
   3. A type of dessert that has a texture similar to custard or mousse but using some kind of starch as the thickening agent.
2. (slang) a hottie (attractive person, usually a woman)

   Din kompis är en riktig pudding

   Your friend is a real hottie

Declension

Declension of pudding

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	pudding	puddings
	definite	puddingen	puddingens
plural	indefinite	puddingar	puddingars
	definite	puddingarna	puddingarnas

Derived terms

• kålpudding

References

• pudding in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• pudding in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• pudding in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)