Pudding

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Pudding \Pud"ding\, n. [Cf. F. boudin black pudding, sausage, L.
     botulus, botellus, a sausage, G. & Sw. pudding pudding, Dan.
     podding, pudding, LG. puddig thick, stumpy, W. poten, potten,
     also E. pod, pout, v.]
     1. A species of food of a soft or moderately hard
        consistence, variously made, but often a compound of flour


        or meal, with milk and eggs, etc.
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              And solid pudding against empty praise. --Pope.
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     2. Anything resembling, or of the softness and consistency
        of, pudding.
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     3. An intestine; especially, an intestine stuffed with meat,
        etc.; a sausage. --Shak.
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     4. Any food or victuals.
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              Eat your pudding, slave, and hold your tongue.
                                                    --Prior.
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     5. (Naut.) Same as {Puddening}.
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     {Pudding grass} (Bot.), the true pennyroyal ({Mentha
        Pulegium}), formerly used to flavor stuffing for roast
        meat. --Dr. Prior.
  
     {Pudding pie}, a pudding with meat baked in it. --Taylor
        (1630).
  
     {Pudding pipe} (Bot.), the long, cylindrical pod of the
        leguminous tree {Cassia Fistula}. The seeds are separately
        imbedded in a sweetish pulp. See {Cassia}.
  
     {Pudding sleeve}, a full sleeve like that of the English
        clerical gown. --Swift.
  
     {Pudding stone}. (Min.) See {Conglomerate}, n., 2.
  
     {Pudding time}.
        (a) The time of dinner, pudding being formerly the dish
            first eaten. [Obs.] --Johnson.
        (b) The nick of time; critical time. [Obs.]
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                  Mars, that still protects the stout,
                  In pudding time came to his aid.  --Hudibras.
            [1913 Webster] Pudding fish

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  pudding
       n 1: any of various soft thick unsweetened baked dishes; "corn
            pudding"
       2: (British) the dessert course of a meal (`pud' is used
          informally) [syn: {pud}]
       3: any of various soft sweet desserts thickened usually with
          flour and baked or boiled or steamed

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  106 Moby Thesaurus words for "pudding":
     Charlotte, albumen, batter, blubber, bonnyclabber, breeze, butter,
     carrot pudding, cataplasm, chocolate mousse, clabber, clay,
     cornstarch, cream, crush, curd, cushion, custard, dental pulp,
     dough, down, duff, egg white, eiderdown, feather bed, feathers,
     flan, fleece, floss, flue, fluff, foam, gaum, gel, gelatin, glair,
     glop, glue, gluten, goo, gook, goop, gruel, gumbo, gunk, jam, jell,
     jelly, junket, kapok, loblolly, mash, molasses, mousse, mucilage,
     mucus, mush, pap, paper pulp, paste, pillow, pith, plaster,
     plum pudding, plush, porridge, poultice, puff, pulp, pulp lead,
     pulpwood, puree, putty, rag pulp, rennet, rob, rubber, satin,
     sauce, semifluid, semiliquid, silk, size, smash, soup, sponge,
     squash, starch, steamed pudding, sticky mess, sulfate pulp,
     sulfite pulp, swansdown, syllabub, syrup, tapioca pudding,
     thistledown, treacle, trifle, vanilla pudding, velvet, wax,
     white lead, wood pulp, wool, zephyr