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puddingy

puddingy adjective: like pudding; having a heavy, stodgy texture.

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
    • 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
  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

comparativepuddingier
superlativepuddingiest

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.

Words near puddingy in the dictionary

  1. puddingstone
  2. puddingstones
  3. Puddington
  4. puddingwife wrasse
  5. puddingwife wrasses
  6. puddingy
  7. puddle
  8. puddle ball
  9. puddle balls
  10. puddle bar
  11. puddle bars

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