(also informal pud) (both BrE) noun [U,C]
1 a sweet dish eaten at the end of a meal:
What's for pudding? * I haven't made a pudding today.
SYNAFTERS, DESSERT, SWEET
2 (BrE) a hot sweet dish, often like a cake, made from flour, fat and eggs with fruit, jam, etc. in or on it:
treacle pudding * bread and butter pudding (= made with bread, butter and milk)
seealsoCHRISTMASPUDDING, RICEPUDDING, SPONGEPUDDING, SUMMERPUDDING
3 (BrE) a hot dish like a pie with soft pastry made from flour, fat and eggs and usually filled with meat:
a steak and kidney pudding
4 (AmE) a cold DESSERT (= a sweet dish) like cream flavoured with fruit, chocolate, etc:
chocolate pudding
seealsoBLACKPUDDING, YORKSHIREPUDDING
IDIOMS see OVER-EGG, PROOF
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