pudding
/ˈpʊdɪŋ/ noun
Forms puddings
- noun Any of various dishes, sweet or savoury, prepared by boiling or steaming or from batter.
- noun A type of cake or dessert cooked usually by boiling or steaming.
- noun A type of dessert that has a texture similar to custard or mousse but using some kind of starch as the thickening agent.
- noun (UK, Australia, New Zealand) Dessert; the dessert course of a meal. “We have apple pie for pudding today.”
- noun (originally) A sausage made primarily from blood.
- noun (slang) An overweight person.
- noun (endearing) A term of endearment.
- noun (slang) Entrails.
Synonyms
afters dessert pud sweet black pudding blood sausage fatty porker All are derogatory unless otherwise labeled butterball chod chodder chubbs chubster chunker chunky monkey elephant fat fatfuck fatso
Etymology
From circa 1305, Middle English podynge (“kind of sausage; meat-filled animal stomach”), puddynge, from Old French boudin (“blood sausage, black pudding”), from Latin botellus (“sausage, small intestine”). Doublet of boudin.
* An alternative etymology assumes origin from Proto-Germanic *put-, *pud- (“to swell”) (compare dialectal English pod (“belly”), Old English puduc (“wen, sore”), Low German puddig (“swollen”), Westphalian Puddek (“lump, pudding”), Puddewurst (“black pudding”). More at pout.
Webster’s 1913
- noun A species of food of a soft or moderately hard consistence, variously made, but often a compound of flour or meal, with milk and eggs, etc. And solid pudding against empty praise. Pope.
- noun Anything resembling, or of the softness and consistency of, pudding.
Etymology [Cf. F. boudin black pudding, sausage, L. botulus, botellus, a sausage, G. & Sw. pudding pudding, Dan. podding, pudding, LG. puddig thick, stumpy, W. poten, potten, also E. pod, pout, v.]
Sources: Wiktionary · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “pudding”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details