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puddingier

puddingier is the comparative form of puddingy.

Meaning of puddingy

Adjective

puddingy (comparative puddingier, superlative puddingiest)

  1. Like pudding; having a heavy, stodgy texture.
    • I compared it [sc. breadfruit] to Yorkshire pudding; Charles Allen said it was like mashed potatoes and milk. It is generally about the size of a melon, a little fibrous towards the centre, but everywhere else quite smooth and puddingy, something in consistence between yeast-dumplings and...1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., page 476
  2. Having a podgy figure.
    • Still, anyone would have recognized her for puddingy Pudsey.1961, Xavier Herbert, Soldiers' Women, Netley, SA: Fontana Books, published 1978, page 346

Questions about puddingier

What is puddingier the comparative form of?
Puddingier is the comparative form of puddingy.

Words near puddingier in the dictionary

  1. pudding-sleeves
  2. pudding-snammer
  3. pudding-snammers
  4. pudding-stone
  5. puddingheaded
  6. puddingier
  7. puddingiest
  8. puddingish
  9. puddingless
  10. puddinglike
  11. puddings

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