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- [poo d-ing]
- /ˈpʊd ɪŋ/
- /ˈpʊd.ɪŋ/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [poo d-ing]
- /ˈpʊd ɪŋ/
Definitions of pudding word
- noun pudding a thick, soft dessert, typically containing flour or some other thickener, milk, eggs, a flavoring, and sweetener: tapioca pudding. 1
- noun pudding a similar dish unsweetened and served with or as a main dish: corn pudding. 1
- noun pudding British. the dessert course of a meal. 1
- noun pudding Nautical. a pad or fender for preventing scraping or chafing or for lessening shock between vessels or other objects. 1
- noun pudding sweet dessert 1
- noun pudding type of sausage 1
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Origin of pudding
First appearance:
before 1275 One of the 13% oldest English words
1275-1325; Middle English poding kind of sausage; compare Old English puduc wen, sore (perhaps orig. swelling), Low German puddewurst black pudding
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Parts of speech for Pudding
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
pudding popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 91% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
pudding usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for pudding
noun pudding
- chocolate — Chocolate is a sweet hard food made from cocoa beans. It is usually brown in colour and is eaten as a sweet.
- comfit — a sugar-coated sweet containing a nut or seed
- confiture — a confection, preserve of fruit, etc
- dessert — Dessert is something sweet, such as fruit or a pudding, that you eat at the end of a meal.
- afters — dessert; sweet
adj pudding
- gelatinous — having the nature of or resembling jelly, especially in consistency; jellylike.
- gluey — like glue; viscid; sticky.
adjective pudding
- jellied — containing or made, spread, or topped with jelly or syrup; jellied: jelly apples.
- jellylike — a food preparation of a soft, elastic consistency due to the presence of gelatin, pectin, etc., especially fruit juice boiled down with sugar and used as a sweet spread for bread and toast, as a filling for cakes or doughnuts, etc.
Top questions with pudding
- how to make banana pudding?
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See also
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