puddings

Noun

pudding (countable and uncountable, plural puddings)

1. Any of various dishes, sweet or savoury, prepared by boiling or steaming or from batter.
   • The dishes in this chapter represent a range of multiethnic savory custards and steamed puddings, including a few surprises like a chèvre popover pudding and a bread pudding with lettuce and cheese.2004, Victoria Wise, The Pressure Cooker Gourmet, page 313
2. A type of cake or dessert cooked usually by boiling or steaming.
   • Steamed puddings, a favourite for winter, are both easy to make and delicious. Served with one of the sweet sauces (recipes 497 to 506) they make a filling and satisfying end to a meal.2007, Magdaleen Van Wyk, The Complete South African Cookbook, page 265
3. A type of dessert that has a texture similar to custard or mousse but using some kind of starch as the thickening agent.
4. (Australia, New Zealand, UK) Dessert; the dessert course of a meal.
   • We have apple pie for pudding today.

   Synonyms:

   afters, dessert, pud, sweet

5. (originally) A sausage made primarily from blood.

   Synonyms:

   black pudding, blood sausage

6. (slang) An overweight person.

   Synonyms:

   fatty, porker, All are derogatory unless otherwise labeled, butterball, chod, chodder, chubbs, chubster, chunker, chunky monkey

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