DictionarypuddingSoft, thick food
noun

pudding

PUD-ing/ˈpʊdɪŋ/

A soft, thick food usually eaten as a dessert.

The thick chocolate pudding fills the dessert bowl.

A small glass dessert bowl filled with thick chocolate pudding, with a spoon resting across its rim holding a soft scoop.
Etymology

Pudding first named a stuffed sausage, then other foods boiled or steamed in a bag. That extension led to sweet flour-and-milk dishes and today's dessert sense, though the word's deeper origin remains uncertain.

In context

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More examples

  • She served chocolate pudding in small bowls.
  • A skin formed on the cooling pudding.
  • He stirred the pudding before spooning it out.

Forms

pudding · puddings

Similar words

custard
A related egg-thickened dessert.
dessert
The broader food category.