# boudin
## English
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French boudin. Doublet of pudding. Cf. also poutine.

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /buːˈdæ̃/, /ˈbuː.dæ̃/
* (US) IPA: /buˈdæ̃/
* Audio (US):(file)

### Noun

boudin (plural boudins)
* A kind of blood sausage in French, Belgian, Luxembourgish and related cuisines.
** 1995, Frank Bradley, International Marketing Strategy, Prentice Hall PTR:Eurohucksters will find it difficult to wean the sausage lovers of Liége away from their bursting black Belgian boudins and toward Birmingham's humble bangers. Beer hawkers should fare no better.
** 2002, Alan Davidson, The Penguin Companion to Food, Penguin Group USA, page 98:The principal French boudin competition is held every year at Mortagne-au-Perche in Normandy, attracting hundreds […]
** 2017, Jonathan Meades, The Plagiarist in the Kitchen: A Lifetime's Culinary Thefts, Unbound Publishing, →ISBN:In general the softer, mousse-like texture of French boudins is the more appropriate in this instance.
* A sausage in southern Louisiana Creole and Cajun cuisine, made from rice, ground pork (occasionally crawfish), and spices in a sausage casing.
* A structure formed by boudinage: one or a series of elongated, sausage-shaped section(s) in rock.
** 1968, I. M. Stevenson, A Geological Reconnaissance of Leaf River Map-area, New Quebec and Northwest Territories:Formation of boudins Although the shape of the greenstone bodies resembles in many ways that of boudins as described elsewhere (Cloos, 1946, 1947; Ramberg, 1955; Jones, 1959), the shape of the greenstone bodies is believed to be ...
** 1986, David P. Gold, Carbonatites, Diatremes, and Ultra-alkaline Rocks in the Oka Area, Quebec: May 22-23, 1986:However, discordant dykes, locally disrupted in boudins, attest to both late dykes and post-crystallization movement of the carbonate rocks. Some of those boudins are interpreted as immiscible silicate blebs in carbonatitic melt […]
** 1994, A. Thomas, Nicholas Culshaw, Kenneth L. Currie, Geological Survey of Canada, Geology of the Lac Ghyvelde-Lac Long Area, Labrador and Quebec:Small bodies of mafic to ultramafic rocks occur as boudins or sills up to 7 km long within the gneiss.
** 1995, Northeastern Geology and Environmental Sciences:The blocks do not penetrate the leucogneiss foliation that surrounds them, and the result is a single boudin with a composite core.

#### Derived terms

* boudin blanc
* boudin noir

## French
### Etymology

Inherited from Middle French boudin, from Old French boudin, of uncertain origin. Possibly from a root *bod- (“swollen”), possibly from Germanic, from Proto-Indo-European *bed- (“to swell”) (Pok. 96), from *bʰew- (“to swell”) (Pok. 98-102). This would suggest a connection with Proto-Germanic *paddǭ (“toad”).
The derivation from Vulgar *botellinus, from botellus (“small sausage”), the diminutive form of botulus (“sausage, black pudding; intestine”) is disputed on phonological grounds; as the outcome of botellus is Old French boel (> modern boyau), this may instead require a Vulgar Latin *bolet(t)inus for boudin.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bu.dɛ̃/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

boudin m (plural boudins)
* (approximately) blood sausage, black pudding
* (inflatable) tube, ring
* (colloquial, derogatory) fatty, lardarse
** 1984, Jacques Sadoul, La chute de la maison Spencer, J'ai Lu, page 70:Bof ! c’est peut-être ma tante, mais c’est un gros boudin quand même.Humph! She may be my aunt, but she's still a fatso.
* (colloquial, derogatory) ugly person (not necessarily obese)
** 1991, Marc Zmirov, Julia:Alors que n’importe quel boudin peut se faire n’importe quel type.While any uggo can screw whatever guy she wants.

#### Derived terms

* boudin blanc
* boudin noir
* faire du boudin: see bouder (“to sulk”)
* caca boudin

#### Descendants

* → English: boudin

### References

* ↑ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “96-102”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 1, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, pages 96-102
* ↑ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “pudding”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

### Further reading

* “boudin”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.