# pudding
## English
### Etymology

From circa 1305, Middle English podynge (“kind of sausage; meat-filled animal stomach”), puddynge, from Old French boudin (“blood sausage, black pudding”), from Latin botellus (“sausage, small intestine”). Doublet of boudin.
* An alternative etymology assumes origin from Proto-Germanic *put-, *pud- (“to swell”) (compare dialectal English pod (“belly”), Old English puduc (“wen, sore”), Low German puddig (“swollen”), Westphalian Puddek (“lump, pudding”), Puddewurst (“black pudding”). More at pout.

### Pronunciation

* enPR: po͝odʹing, IPA: /ˈpʊd.ɪŋ/
* Audio (General Australian):(file)
* Rhymes: -ʊdɪŋ

### Noun

pudding (countable and uncountable, plural puddings)
* Any of various dishes, sweet or savoury, prepared by boiling or steaming, or from batter.
** 2004, Victoria Wise, The Pressure Cooker Gourmet, page 313: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.
** 2004, Sarah Garland, The Complete Book of Herbs & Spices, page 199: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.
* A type of cake or dessert cooked usually by boiling or steaming.
** 2007, Magdaleen Van Wyk, The Complete South African Cookbook, page 265: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.
* A type of dessert that has a texture similar to custard or mousse but using some kind of starch as the thickening agent.
    Hyponyms: custard, crème caramel, crème brûlée, flan, mousse
* (UK, Australia, New Zealand) Dessert; the dessert course of a meal.
    Synonyms: (UK informal) afters, dessert, (UK slang) pud, (UK) sweet
    We have apple pie for pudding today.
* (originally) A sausage made primarily from blood.
    Synonyms: (UK) black pudding, blood sausage
* (slang) An overweight person.
    Synonyms: fatty, porker; see also Thesaurus:fat person
* (endearing) A term of endearment.
    Synonym: dumpling
** 2005, Ruzbeh N. Bharucha, Rest in Pieces, page 7:"How is my little pudding?" Jehan nuzzles up to me and rests his little head on my shoulder, still chuckling […]
* (slang) Entrails.
    Synonyms: bowels, guts, innards
** 1715 November 15, To Mr James Neilsone, opposite the Tolbooth, Berwick; published as “Battle of Sheriffmuir”, in The Edinburgh Magazine, 1818 March, page 241: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.
** [1785, Francis Grose, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue‎:PUDDINGS, the guts; I'll let out your puddings.]
* (obsolete) Any food or victuals.
    Synonyms: fodder, provisions; see also Thesaurus:food
** 1718, Matthew Prior, Merry Andrew:Eat your pudding, slave, and hold your tongue.
* (archaic, slang) A piece of good fortune.
    Synonyms: lucky break, stroke of luck

#### Derived terms

* amber pudding
* bag pudding
* Bakewell pudding
* banana pudding
* bird's nest pudding
* black pudding
* blood pudding
* bread and butter pudding
* bread-and-butter pudding
* bread pudding
* cabinet pudding
* chancellor's pudding
* Christmas pudding
* corn pudding
* cottage pudding
* diplomat pudding
* dock pudding
* Europudding
* Eve's pudding
* figgy pudding
* gooseberry pudding
* groaty pudding
* groaty-pudding
* gut-pudding
* hasty pudding
* hasty-pudding
* hog's pudding
* Indian pudding
* in the pudding club
* jack pudding
* Lunenburg pudding
* macaroni pudding
* magic pudding
* malva pudding
* Malvern pudding
* Manchester pudding
* mango pudding
* milk pudding
* minute pudding
* moonshine pudding
* nervous pudding
* nursery pudding
* omnibus pudding
* over-egg the pudding
* pease pudding
* peas pudding
* plum pudding
* plum pudding dog
* plum pudding model
* pock-pudding
* pudding and tame
* pudding-basin
* pudding basin
* pudding basin haircut
* pudding-bowl
* pudding bowl
* pudding-brain
* pudding-brained
* pudding chomeur
* pudding-faced
* pudding grass
* pudding-headed
* puddingish
* puddingless
* puddinglike
* pudding pie
* pudding pop
* pudding rice
* pudding sleeve
* pudding-sleeve
* pudding-snammer
* pudding spice
* puddingstone
* pudding stone
* puddingstone
* pudding time
* puddingy
* quaking pudding
* queen of puddings
* queen's pudding
* rag pudding
* red pudding
* rice pudding
* sago pudding
* sawdust pudding
* sea pudding
* semolina pudding
* sponge pudding
* steak and kidney pudding
* steamed pudding
* sticky toffee pudding
* suet pudding
* summer pudding
* Sussex pond pudding
* tapioca pudding
* the proof is in the pudding
* the proof of the pudding is in the eating
* too much pudding will choke a dog
* Tottenham pudding
* treacle pudding
* white pudding
* Yorkshire pudding

#### Descendants

* → Belarusian: пу́дынг (púdynh)
* → Burmese: ပူတင်း (putang:)
* → Chinese: 布丁 (bùdīng), 布甸 (bùdiàn)
* → Esperanto: pudingo
* → Estonian: puding
* → French: poudingue
** → Italian: puddinga
* →? French: poutine (semantic loan)
* → French: pudding, pouding (post-1990 spelling)
** → Romanian: budincă
** → Turkish: puding
* → Dutch: pudding
* → German: Pudding
* → Japanese: プディング (pudingu), プリン (purin)
* → Latvian: pudiņš
* → Lithuanian: pudingas
* →? Michif: poutchine
* → Polish: pudding
* → Portuguese: pudim
* → Russian: пу́динг (púding)
* → Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: пу̀динг
    Latin script: pùding
* → Spanish: budín, pudding, pudin, pudín
* → Swedish: pudding
* → Ukrainian: пу́динг (púdynh), пу́ндик (púndyk)
* → Welsh: pwdin

#### Translations

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### References

* ↑ C.T. Onions, ed. The Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology (Oxford: Oxford UP, 1966), 721.
* ↑ Robert K. Barnhart & Sol Steinmetz, eds. Barnhart Dictionary of Etymology (Bronx, NY: H. W. Wilson, 1988), 860.

## Dutch
### Etymology

Borrowed from English pudding.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpʏ.dɪŋ/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: pud‧ding

### Noun

pudding m (plural puddingen, diminutive puddinkje n)
* a pudding, dessert of the custard-type

#### Derived terms

* chocoladepudding
* drilpudding
* griesmeelpudding
* vanillepudding

## French
### Alternative forms

* pouding (post-1990 spelling)

### Etymology

Borrowed from English pudding. Doublet of boudin.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pu.diŋ/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -iŋ

### Noun

pudding m (plural puddings)
* any dish formed from putting the leftovers of a place such as a bakery together, and mixing them all into one

#### Descendants

* → Romanian: budincă
* → Turkish: puding

### Further reading

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

## Middle English
### Noun

pudding
* Alternative form of podynge

## Polish
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English pudding. Doublet of budyń.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpu.diŋk/
* Rhymes: -udiŋk
* Syllabification: pu‧dding

### Noun

pudding m inan
* pudding (type of cake or dessert cooked usually by boiling or steaming)

#### Declension
### Further reading

* pudding in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* pudding in Polish dictionaries at PWN
* pudding in PWN's encyclopedia

## Spanish
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English pudding, from Old French boudin, from Latin botellus (“sausage, small intestine”). Doublet of budín, pudín, and pudin.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpudin/ [ˈpu.ð̞ĩn]
* Rhymes: -udin
* Homophone: pudin

### Noun

pudding m (plural puddings)
* pudding (particularly British types)

#### Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

## Swedish
### Etymology

Borrowed from English pudding.

### Noun

pudding c
* pudding
** A cake or dessert prepared by boiling or steaming.
** Any of various savoury dishes prepared in a similar way to a sweet pudding.
** A type of dessert that has a texture similar to custard or mousse but using some kind of starch as the thickening agent.
* (slang) a hottie (attractive person, usually a woman)
    Din kompis är en riktig puddingYour friend is a real hottie

#### Derived terms

* kålpudding

### References

* pudding in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* pudding in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* pudding in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)