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I would snack on crisps and chocolate and my meals weren't the best. I ate lots of steak with creamy sauces, chips and peas, washed down with wine and a pudding.
Jennifer Ellison

Meaning of "pudding" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD PUDDING

Poding; compare Old English puduc a wart, Low German puddek sausage.
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PRONUNCIATION OF PUDDING

pudding  [ˈpʊdɪŋ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PUDDING

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Pudding is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES PUDDING MEAN IN ENGLISH?

pudding

Pudding

Pudding is usually a dessert, but it can also be a savory dish. The word pudding is believed to come from the French boudin, originally from the Latin botellus, meaning "small sausage", referring to encased meats used in Medieval European puddings.

Definition of pudding in the English dictionary

The first definition of pudding in the dictionary is a sweetened usually cooked dessert made in many forms and of various ingredients, such as flour, milk, and eggs, with fruit, etc. Other definition of pudding is a savoury dish, usually soft and consisting partially of pastry or batter. Pudding is also the dessert course in a meal.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PUDDING


autoloading
ˈɔːtəʊˌləʊdɪŋ
boding
ˈbəʊdɪŋ
breech-loading
ˈbriːtʃˌləʊdɪŋ
coding
ˈkəʊdɪŋ
decoding
diːˈkəʊdɪŋ
do-gooding
ˌduːˈɡʊdɪŋ
Dowding
ˈdaʊdɪŋ
downloading
ˈdaʊnˌləʊdɪŋ
encoding
ɪnˈkəʊdɪŋ
foreboding
fɔːˈbəʊdɪŋ
freeloading
ˈfriːˌləʊdɪŋ
loading
ˈləʊdɪŋ
muzzle-loading
ˈmʌzəlˌləʊdɪŋ
noncoding
ˌnɒnˈkəʊdɪŋ
overcrowding
ˌəʊvəˈkraʊdɪŋ
roading
ˈrəʊdɪŋ
roding
ˈrəʊdɪŋ
unloading
ʌnˈləʊdɪŋ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PUDDING

pud
puddening
pudder
pudding basin
pudding club
pudding rice
pudding stone
pudding-face
pudding-head
puddingy
puddle
puddler
puddling
puddly
puddock
puddy
pudency
pudenda
pudendal
pudendous

WORDS THAT END LIKE PUDDING

adding
bedding
bidding
budding
building
cladding
competitive bidding
double wedding
embedding
kidding
modding
nodding
padding
Redding
shedding
shredding
sledding
sodding
wedding
white wedding
Yorkshire pudding

Synonyms and antonyms of pudding in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «PUDDING»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «pudding» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of pudding
afters · dessert · pud · sweet

Translation of «pudding» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PUDDING

Find out the translation of pudding to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of pudding from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «pudding» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

布丁
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

pudin
570 millions of speakers

English

pudding
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

हलवा
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

حَلْوى البُودِينْج
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

пудинг
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

pudim
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

পুডিং
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

pudding
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Puding
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Nachspeise
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

プディング
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

푸딩
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Pudding
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

bánh pudding
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

புட்டு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

सांजा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

puding
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

budino
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

budyń
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

пудинг
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

budincă
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

πουτίγγα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

poeding
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

efterrätt
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

pudding
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of pudding

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PUDDING»

The term «pudding» is very widely used and occupies the 16.296 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PUDDING» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «pudding» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «pudding» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about pudding

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10 QUOTES WITH «PUDDING»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word pudding.
1
Jeremy Bulloch
My favorite pudding is good old English apple pie.
2
Anna Camp
I've been acting since second grade, telling stories, making my parents laugh here and there, so I'm hoping my 'thing' is acting. But I also make a really good bread pudding.
3
Jane Welsh Carlyle
Who knows but I shall grow reasonable at last, descend from my ideal heaven to the real earth, marry, and - Oh Plato! - make a pudding?
4
Jennifer Ellison
I would snack on crisps and chocolate and my meals weren't the best. I ate lots of steak with creamy sauces, chips and peas, washed down with wine and a pudding.
5
Ben Elton
And roast beef and Yorkshire pudding is my personal signature dish.
6
Eve
Sticky toffee pudding is my favorite dessert in the U.K.
7
Michel Faber
'A Christmas Carol' is an extravagantly symbolic thing - as rich in symbols as Christmas pudding is rich in raisins.
8
Deborra-Lee Furness
My secret indulgent food is dessert. I have an incredible sweet tooth - chocolate pudding with vanilla ice-cream or trifle and pavlova. I do love dessert.
9
Jennifer Hudson
My biggest thing is banana pudding, but it's the devil! So no one is allowed to bring it into my house. Because I can't control myself. So why put it in my domain?
10
Mallory Jansen
I love the smell of a real Christmas tree - also, my mum's Christmas pudding with brandy sauce.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PUDDING»

Discover the use of pudding in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to pudding and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Fig Pudding
The story from one big brother's point-of-view of his family, in all their quirky glory, over the course of a year.
Ralph Fletcher, 2013
2
101 Things to Do with Pudding
There's so much more to pudding than just a dollop of whipped cream on top! This all-time favorite treat gets a makeover with 101 Things to Do with Pudding.
Stephanie Ashcraft, 2009
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Christmas Pudding
Though foot-and-mouth has stopped hunting, Lady Bobbin, MFH and formidable chatelaine of Compton Bobbin, has assembled an oddly assorted Yuletide gathering.
Nancy Mitford, 2012
4
The Magic Pudding
This childhood classic stars a pudding that shares its deliciousness with everyone and never runs out -- because it's "magic!" The pudding's madcap adventures feature catchy rhymes and 45 whimsical illustrations.
‎2004
5
Plum Pudding Murder
Rumour has it that "Lunatic Larry" Jaeger is in the red--an idea that takes a sinister turn when Hannah discovers the man himself dead as a doornail in his own office.
Joanne Fluke, 2010
6
Was It the Chocolate Pudding?: A Story For Little Kids About ...
A little boy learns that he did not cause his parent's divorce because of the mess he made with chocolate pudding, and describes his new life living with his dad and seeing his mom on weekends.
Sandra Levins, 2005
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The Proof is in the Pudding: The Changing Nature of ...
This book takes the reader on a journey around the globe and through centuries of history, exploring the transformations that mathematical proof has undergone from its inception at the time of Euclid and Pythagoras to its versatile, present ...
Steven G. Krantz, 2011
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Bread Pudding Recipes: Hot Water, Cereal, Bagel and More ...
Bread Pudding Recipes: Hot Water, Cereal, Bagel And More With Bread Pudding Recipe Greetings is a reference for delicious and unique bread pudding recipes.
Press Bibliotheca Press, 2004
9
The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding (Poirot)
Agatha Christie’s seasonal Poirot and Marple short story collection.
Agatha Christie, 2010
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Plum Pudding: A Literary Concoction (Ill
PLUM PUDDING: Thus Mr. Morley entitles his new volume, in which he has occupied himself with books in particular, but also with divers other ingredients such as city and suburban incidents, women, dogs, children, tadpoles, and so on.
Christopher Morley, 2005

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PUDDING»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term pudding is used in the context of the following news items.
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Aldi apologises after black pudding is incorrectly labelled as halal …
Muslim customers at Aldi were left fuming by the blunder that saw supposedly halal black pudding being sold containing pig blood and skins, the Mirror reported. «Telegraph.co.uk, May 15»
2
Blue Bell extends recall to banana pudding pints
BRENHAM, Texas — Blue Bell Creameries has expanded its recall of products to include banana pudding-flavored ice cream pints, which have tested positive ... «USA TODAY, Apr 15»
3
Overnight oatmeal pudding makes a healthy breakfast easier
Lately, my go-to quick and healthy choice has been oat pudding, mostly because my kids love it. But I also like the staying power the complex carbs and fiber ... «Press Herald, Mar 15»
4
Chris Pratt Pulls Out His Lap Dance Skills for His Hasty Pudding
The Guardians of the Galaxy star headed to Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Friday to be honored as Harvard University's Hasty Pudding Theatricals' "Man of the ... «People Magazine, Feb 15»
5
Amy Poehler Receives Hasty Pudding Award from Harvard
It was a homecoming of sorts for Amy Poehler, who was celebrated in song, dance and an uproarious roast on Thursday as the recipient of the 2015 Hasty ... «People Magazine, Jan 15»
6
Chris Pratt Named Hasty Pudding's 2015 Man of the Year
Pratt—who already clinched a spot on GQ's “Men of the Year” list—will be honored on Feb. 6 with a celebratory roast and “Pudding Pot” award presented by the ... «Harvard Crimson, Jan 15»
7
Amy Poehler Named Hasty Pudding's Woman of the Year
In her book, Yes Please, Amy Poehler likens the experience of being nominated for an award as wanting the pudding. Well, the 2015 Golden Globes co-host ... «Hollywood Reporter, Jan 15»
8
For Australian Christmas, Everything's Overturned But The Pudding
Plum pudding, as it's also known, has a long, distinguished history going back to at least the early 17th century. Ironically, plums are not an ingredient, though ... «NPR, Dec 14»
9
Kozy Shack Recalls Some Puddings Over Labeling
ARDEN HILLS, Minn. - Pudding maker Kozy Shack Enterprises is recalling some of its puddings because they are not labeled as containing milk. The voluntary ... «10TV, Nov 14»
10
Corn pudding like a ray of sunshine
Usually ideas for this column pop up easy as a country song. This week, I drew a blank. I stared out the kitchen window at two hardy trees that still held tightly to ... «SouthCoastToday.com, Nov 14»

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