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Yorkshire pudding

Yorkshire pudding noun: a dish made from batter baked in fat, usually served as an accompaniment to roast beef but sometimes (in a larger form) served with other fillings or as a separate course.

Noun

Yorkshire pudding (plural Yorkshire puddings)

  1. A dish made from batter baked in fat, usually served as an accompaniment to roast beef but sometimes (in a larger form) served with other fillings or as a separate course.
    • "Dear, dear, we shall have no dinners worth eating till we get to England. I quite long for our good Sunday smell of a piece of roast-beef and a Yorkshire pudding."1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, pages 127–128

Forms of Yorkshire pudding

pluralYorkshire puddings

Questions about Yorkshire pudding

What does Yorkshire pudding mean?
Yorkshire pudding means a dish made from batter baked in fat, usually served as an accompaniment to roast beef but sometimes (in a larger form) served with other fillings or as a separate course.
What part of speech is Yorkshire pudding?
Yorkshire pudding is a noun.
What is the plural of Yorkshire pudding?
The plural of Yorkshire pudding is Yorkshire puddings.

Words near Yorkshire pudding in the dictionary

  1. Yorkshire parkins
  2. Yorkshire pie
  3. Yorkshire pies
  4. Yorkshire pig
  5. Yorkshire pigs
  6. Yorkshire pudding
  7. Yorkshire puddings
  8. Yorkshire square
  9. Yorkshire squares
  10. Yorkshire Terrier
  11. Yorkshire Terriers

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