pudding
English
/ˈpʊd.ɪŋ/
noun
Definitions
- 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.
- (UK) Dessert; the dessert course of a meal.
- (originally) A sausage made primarily from blood.
- (slang) An overweight person.
- (slang) Entrails.
- (obsolete) Any food or victuals.
- (archaic) A piece of good fortune.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English poding (kind of sausage, meat-filled animal stomach) derived from Old French boudin (blood sausage, black pudding) derived from Proto-Germanic *put-.
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*put-
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Europudding English
- bladderpod English
- iPod English
- lancepod English
- monkeypod English
- nanopod English
- orped English
- pod English
- podcase English
- podded English
- podder English
- poddy English
- podhead English
- podiform English
- podlet English
- podlike English
- protopod English
- puddingish English
- puddingless English
- puddinglike English
- puddingstone English
- puddingy English
- rattlepod English
- satinpod English
- seedpod English
- sicklepod English
- sidepod English
- stone English
- superpod English
- waxpod English
- Pudding German
- Schokoladenpudding German
- Schokopudding German
- Vanillepudding German
- Wackelpudding German
- puddinga Italian
- drilpudding Dutch, Flemish
- griesmeelpudding Dutch, Flemish
- pudding Dutch, Flemish
- sneeuwpudding Dutch, Flemish
- poudingue French
- pudding French
- пудинг Russian
- pudim Portuguese
- *put- Proto-Germanic
- blodpudding Swedish
- pudding Swedish
- プディング Japanese
- budyn Polish
- pudding Polish
- *pod Middle English
- poding Middle English
- boudin Old French
- puding Serbo-Croatian
- пудинг Serbo-Croatian
- budincă Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- *podinc Middle Dutch
- puding Turkish
- ပူတင်း Burmese
- boudin Middle French
- puding Estonian
- 布丁 Chinese
- 布甸 Chinese