Definition of PUDDING

pudding

Meanings

Plural: puddings

Noun

  • any of various soft thick unsweetened baked dishes
    • "corn pudding"
  • (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
  • Any of various dishes, sweet or savoury, prepared by boiling or steaming, or from batter.
  • A type of cake or dessert cooked usually by boiling or steaming.
  • A type of dessert that has a texture similar to custard or mousse but using some kind of starch as the thickening agent.
  • Dessert; the dessert course of a meal.
  • A sausage made primarily from blood.
  • An overweight person.
  • A term of endearment.
  • Entrails.
  • Any food or victuals.
  • A piece of good fortune.

Origin / 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.

Synonyms

afters, aliment, All are derogatory unless otherwise labeled, bait, belly-timber, black pudding, blood sausage, bowels, butterball, chow, chubster, chunker, chunky monkey, comestibles, cuisine, dessert, dumpling, eatables, eats, edibles, elephant, fat, fat fuck, fat-ass, fatass, fatfuck, fatshit, fatso, fattie, fatty, feed, fodder, food, foodstuffs, fussock, gorbelly, grub, guts, hambeast, hamplanet, heffalump, innards, kai, landwhale, lardass, lardbucket, lardo, lucky break, meals, meat, munchable, nibbles, nosebag, nosh, nourishment, obeast, oinker, om nom nom, pig, podge, porker, provender, provisions, pud, pudge, rations, roly-poly, salad dodger, scran, stodge, stroke of luck, sustenance, swagbelly, sweet, thunder thighs, tiffin, tub of guts, tub of lard, tubbo, tuck, tucker, viands, victuals, vittles, whale

Scrabble Score: 12

pudding is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
pudding is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
pudding is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 16

pudding is a valid Words With Friends word