puddingnoun/ˈpʊdɪŋ/

• 1

  Any of various dishes, sweet or savoury, prepared by boiling or steaming or from batter.

  • The dishes in this chapter represent a range of multiethnic savory custards and steamed puddings, including a few surprises like a chèvre popover pudding and a bread pudding with lettuce and cheese.
  • Steamed and boiled puddings have formed the basic diet of country people in northern Europe for centuries. Early puddings consisted of the scoured stomach of a sheep or pig, stuffed with its own suet and offal, which has been thickened with oatmeal, and boiled in water or baked in the ashes of a fire.
• 2

  A type of cake or dessert cooked usually by boiling or steaming.

  • Steamed puddings, a favourite for winter, are both easy to make and delicious. Served with one of the sweet sauces (recipes 497 to 506) they make a filling and satisfying end to a meal.
• 3

  A type of dessert that has a texture similar to custard or mousse but using some kind of starch as the thickening agent.

• 4

  Dessert; the dessert course of a meal.

  • Harold Winstanley: Is there any pudding? Doris Winstanley: Oh, yes. Rhubarb cobbler left over from Sunday.
  • Jane Cavendish: Have you tried some fresh strawberry cheesecake? Tara Cavendish: Nope. I don't eat puddings.
• 5

  A sausage made primarily from blood.

• 6

  slangAn overweight person.

• 7

  A term of endearment.

  • "How is my little pudding?" Jehan nuzzles up to me and rests his little head on my shoulder, still chuckling […]
• 8

  slangEntrails.

  • I pray God he may recover, though there is little hopes; as there is of Coll Halley, being shott throw the body; and of Capt. Urquhart of Burdyeyeards, being wounded in the belly, after being made prisoner, soe that his puddings hang out.
  • PUDDINGS, the guts; I'll let out your puddings.