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pudding

/ˈpʊdɪŋ/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.61 in modern English

Syllables
pud-ding
IPA
/ˈpʊdɪŋ/
12
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of various dishes, sweet or savoury, prepared by boiling or steaming or from batter.

Countable; Uncountable

noun

A type of cake or dessert cooked usually by boiling or steaming.

Countable; Uncountable

noun

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

Countable; Uncountable

noun

Dessert; the dessert course of a meal.

Australian usage; New Zealand usage; British usage; Countable; Uncountable

noun

A sausage made primarily from blood.

Countable; Uncountable

noun

An overweight person.

Countable; Slang; Uncountable

noun

A term of endearment.

Countable; Uncountable

noun

Entrails.

Countable; Slang; Uncountable

Example Sentences

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.

Origin

Word Breakdown

Regional Pronunciation

  • American English: /ˈpʊdɪŋ/
  • British English: /ˈpʊdɪŋ/

Usage

Inflected Forms

puddings (plural)

Derived Forms

Europudding puddingish puddingless puddinglike puddingstone puddingy

Phrases

amber pudding bag pudding Bakewell pudding banana pudding batter pudding bird's nest pudding black pudding blood pudding

Synonyms

afters dessert pud sweet black pudding blood sausage fatty porker All are derogatory unless otherwise labeled butterball chod chodder

Rhymes With

gooding wooding hooding

Questions

How do you pronounce pudding?
The recorded pronunciation is /ˈpʊdɪŋ/.
What does pudding mean?
Any of various dishes, sweet or savoury, prepared by boiling or steaming or from batter.
Where does pudding come from?
It is traced to Middle English.

How to pronounce pudding

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