PUDDING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pudding mean? 

• PUDDING (noun)
  The noun PUDDING has 3 senses:

1. any of various soft thick unsweetened baked dishes

2. (British) the dessert course of a meal ('pud' is used informally)

3. any of various soft sweet desserts thickened usually with flour and baked or boiled or steamed

  Familiarity information: PUDDING used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PUDDING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of various soft thick unsweetened baked dishes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Context example:

corn pudding

Hypernyms ("pudding" is a kind of...):

dish (a particular item of prepared food)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pudding"):

carrot pudding (pudding made with grated carrots)

corn pudding (pudding made of corn and cream and egg)

Sense 2

Meaning:

(British) the dessert course of a meal ('pud' is used informally)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

pud; pudding

Hypernyms ("pudding" is a kind of...):

afters; dessert; sweet (a dish served as the last course of a meal)

Domain region:

Britain; Great Britain; U.K.; UK; United Kingdom; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; 'Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pudding"):

trifle (a cold pudding made of layers of sponge cake spread with fruit or jelly; may be decorated with nuts, cream, or chocolate)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Any of various soft sweet desserts thickened usually with flour and baked or boiled or steamed

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("pudding" is a kind of...):

afters; dessert; sweet (a dish served as the last course of a meal)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pudding"):

flummery (a bland custard or pudding especially of oatmeal)

Christmas pudding; plum pudding (a rich steamed or boiled pudding that resembles cake)

steamed pudding (a pudding cooked by steaming)

duff; plum duff (a stiff flour pudding steamed or boiled usually and containing e.g. currants and raisins and citron)

vanilla pudding (sweet vanilla flavored custard-like pudding usually thickened with flour rather than eggs)

chocolate pudding (sweet chocolate flavored custard-like pudding usually thickened with flour rather than eggs)

brown Betty (baked pudding of apples and breadcrumbs)

Nesselrode; Nesselrode pudding (a rich frozen pudding made of chopped chestnuts and maraschino cherries and candied fruits and liqueur or rum)

pease pudding (a pudding made with strained split peas mixed with egg)

tapioca pudding (sweet pudding thickened with tapioca)

roly-poly; roly-poly pudding (pudding made of suet pastry spread with jam or fruit and rolled up and baked or steamed)

suet pudding (a sweet or savory pudding made with suet and steamed or boiled)

 Context examples 

Then, I went without my dinner, or bought a roll or a slice of pudding.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

"No more raisins, Demi. They'll make you sick," says Mamma to the young person who offers his services in the kitchen with unfailing regularity on plum-pudding day.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

“What have you done!” said her mother, “but no one must know about it, so you must keep silence; what is done can’t be undone; we will make him into puddings.”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Next instant, with a loud shout of triumph he held up one splinter, in which a round, dark object was fixed like a plum in a pudding.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

No; just put my pint of porter and bit of pudding on a tray, and I'll carry it upstairs.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The second course was two ducks trussed up in the form of fiddles; sausages and puddings resembling flutes and hautboys, and a breast of veal in the shape of a harp.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

She had not advanced many yards from Mrs. Goddard's door, when she was met by Mr. Elton himself, evidently coming towards it, and as they walked on slowly together in conversation about the invalid—of whom he, on the rumour of considerable illness, had been going to inquire, that he might carry some report of her to Hartfield—they were overtaken by Mr. John Knightley returning from the daily visit to Donwell, with his two eldest boys, whose healthy, glowing faces shewed all the benefit of a country run, and seemed to ensure a quick despatch of the roast mutton and rice pudding they were hastening home for.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

She was so little equal to Rebecca's puddings and Rebecca's hashes, brought to table, as they all were, with such accompaniments of half-cleaned plates, and not half-cleaned knives and forks, that she was very often constrained to defer her heartiest meal till she could send her brothers in the evening for biscuits and buns.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

I never saw anyone enjoy a pudding so much, I think; and he laughed, when it was all gone, as if his enjoyment of it lasted still.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The mother said nothing, but gave him a large dish of black pudding, and Marleen still wept without ceasing.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)