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   pudding

   /ˈpʊdɪŋ/

   noun

   • 1. a cooked sweet dish served after the main course of a meal: "a rice pudding"
   • ▪ the dessert course of a meal: "what's for pudding?"
   • ▪ a flavoured, custard-like dessert made of milk, sugar, and a thickening agent such as egg yolks or cornflour. North American
   • 2. a sweet or savoury steamed dish made with suet and flour: "a steak and kidney pudding"
   • ▪ the intestines of a pig or sheep stuffed with oatmeal, spices, and meat and boiled.
   • ▪ a fat or stupid person: informal "away with you, you big pudding!"

   Word Origin Middle English (denoting a sausage such as black pudding): apparently from Old French boudin ‘black pudding’, from Latin botellus ‘sausage, small intestine’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. puddingy adjective

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