'Pudding' definitions:
Definition of 'pudding'
From: WordNet
noun
Any of various soft thick unsweetened baked dishes; "corn pudding"
noun
(British) the dessert course of a meal (`pud' is used informally) [syn: pudding, pud]
noun
Any of various soft sweet desserts thickened usually with flour and baked or boiled or steamed
Definition of 'Pudding'
From: GCIDE
- Pudding \Pud"ding\, n. [Cf. F. boudin black pudding, sausage, L. botulus, botellus, a sausage, G. & Sw. pudding pudding, Dan. podding, pudding, LG. puddig thick, stumpy, W. poten, potten, also E. pod, pout, v.]
- 1. A species of food of a soft or moderately hard consistence, variously made, but often a compound of flour or meal, with milk and eggs, etc. [1913 Webster]
- And solid pudding against empty praise. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Anything resembling, or of the softness and consistency of, pudding. [1913 Webster]
- 3. An intestine; especially, an intestine stuffed with meat, etc.; a sausage. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Any food or victuals. [1913 Webster]
- Eat your pudding, slave, and hold your tongue. --Prior. [1913 Webster]
- 5. (Naut.) Same as Puddening. [1913 Webster]
- Pudding grass (Bot.), the true pennyroyal ({Mentha Pulegium}), formerly used to flavor stuffing for roast meat. --Dr. Prior.
- Pudding pie, a pudding with meat baked in it. --Taylor (1630).
- Pudding pipe (Bot.), the long, cylindrical pod of the leguminous tree Cassia Fistula. The seeds are separately imbedded in a sweetish pulp. See Cassia.
- Pudding sleeve, a full sleeve like that of the English clerical gown. --Swift.
- Pudding stone. (Min.) See Conglomerate, n., 2.
- Pudding time. (a) The time of dinner, pudding being formerly the dish first eaten. [Obs.] --Johnson. (b) The nick of time; critical time. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- Mars, that still protects the stout, In pudding time came to his aid. --Hudibras. [1913 Webster] Pudding fish
Synonyms of 'pudding'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- albumen,
- batter,
- blubber,
- bonnyclabber,
- breeze,
- butter,
- carrot pudding,
- cataplasm,
- Charlotte,
- chocolate mousse,
- clabber,
- clay,
- cornstarch,
- cream,
- crush,
- curd,
- cushion,
- custard,
- dental pulp,
- dough,
- down,
- duff,
- egg white,
- eiderdown,
- feather bed,
- feathers,
- flan,
- fleece,
- floss,
- flue,
- fluff,
- foam,
- gaum,
- gel,
- gelatin,
- glair,
- glop,
- glue,
- gluten,
- goo,
- gook,
- goop,
- gruel,
- gumbo,
- gunk,
- jam,
- jell,
- jelly,
- junket,
- kapok,
- loblolly,
- mash,
- molasses,
- mousse,
- mucilage,
- mucus,
- mush,
- pap,
- paper pulp,
- paste,
- pillow,
- pith,
- plaster,
- plum pudding,
- plush,
- porridge,
- poultice,
- puff,
- pulp,
- pulp lead,
- pulpwood,
- puree,
- putty,
- rag pulp,
- rennet,
- rob,
- rubber,
- satin,
- sauce,
- semifluid,
- semiliquid,
- silk,
- size,
- smash,
- soup,
- sponge,
- squash,
- starch,
- steamed pudding,
- sticky mess,
- sulfate pulp,
- sulfite pulp,
- swansdown,
- syllabub,
- syrup,
- tapioca pudding,
- thistledown,
- treacle,
- trifle,
- vanilla pudding,
- velvet,
- wax,
- white lead,
- wood pulp,
- wool,
- zephyr
Words containing 'Pudding'
- Pud,
- Black pudding,
- Blood pudding,
- Hasty pudding,
- Indian pudding,
- Pudding fish,
- Pudding grass,
- Pudding pie,
- Pudding pipe,
- Pudding sleeve,
- Pudding stone,
- Pudding time,
- Pudding wife,
- Sea pudding,
- Yorkshire pudding,
- carrot pudding,
- chocolate pudding,
- christmas pudding,
- corn pudding,
- frozen pudding,
- liver pudding,
- nesselrode pudding,
- pease pudding,
- plum pudding,
- pudding berry,
- pudding face,
- pudding head,
- steamed pudding,
- suet pudding,
- tapioca pudding,
- vanilla pudding,
- Pock-pudding,
- Pudding-headed,
- poke-pudding,
- pudding pipe tree,
- pudding-face,
- pudding-wife,
- Bird's-nest pudding,
- roly-poly pudding