puddingy
puddingy adjective: like pudding; having a heavy, stodgy texture.
Adjective
puddingy (comparative puddingier, superlative puddingiest)
- 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
- A bargain pudding wine that puts to shame many much more higher priced examples (which often collapse when confronted with a devastatingly rich dessert[)]. Even puddingier is the 18% proof Marsala Superiore Garibalde Dolce, which Safeway sells for £6.33.1999 August 21, Malcolm Gluck, “Superplonk”, in The Guardian Weekend, London: Guardian Media Group, →OCLC, page 31, column 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
Synonyms of puddingy
Forms of puddingy
| comparative | puddingier |
|---|---|
| superlative | puddingiest |
Origin of puddingy
From pudding + -y.
Questions about puddingy
- What does puddingy mean?
- Puddingy means like pudding; having a heavy, stodgy texture.
- What part of speech is puddingy?
- Puddingy is an adjective.
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