pud·ding / ˈpoŏding/ • n. 1. a dessert with a creamy consistency: chocolate pudding a rice pudding. ∎ chiefly Brit. any dessert. ∎ chiefly Brit. the dessert course of a meal: what's for pudding?2. a sweet or savory steamed dish made with flour: Yorkshire pudding. ∎  the intestines of a pig or sheep stuffed with oatmeal, spices, and meat and boiled. See also black pudding, blood pudding. ∎ inf. a fat, dumpy, or stupid person: away with you, you big pudding!DERIVATIVES: pud·ding·y adj.

pudding A baked or steamed sponge or suet dish, usually sweet and served as a dessert, but also savoury suet puddings (e.g. steak and kidney). Also milk puddings, made by baking rice, semolina, or sago in milk. See also black pudding; hasty pudding.

pudding animal's stomach or intestine stuffed with meat, etc. XIII; (dial.) pl. entrails XV; preparation of food with basis of flour boiled, orig. in a bag XVI. ME. poding, puddyng, corr. in meaning to (O)F. boudin.

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of mallard: a company of mallard on water.