pudding

noun

pud·​ding ˈpu̇-diŋ 

plural puddings

1

: blood sausage

2

a(1)

: a boiled or baked soft food usually with a cereal base

corn pudding

bread pudding

(2)

: a dessert of a soft, spongy, or thick creamy consistency

especially : one made from sweetened milk or cream cooked with a thickener (such as eggs, flour, tapioca, or cornstarch) and usually flavored

chocolate/vanilla pudding

(3)

British : dessert sense 1

b

: a dish often containing suet or having a suet crust and originally boiled in a bag

steak and kidney pudding

Examples of pudding in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

For our writer, retro classics like Wonder bread, cold hot dogs, stovetop pudding, and ham sandwiches hearken back to his youth. —Robert Klose, Christian Science Monitor, 1 May 2025

Made with the dairy alternative oat milk, these pudding cups are plant-based, vegan and gluten-free. —Tom Rogers, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Apr. 2025

Get The Recipe 20 of 25 Dirt Pudding If you've been charged with bringing dessert for the kids, this whimsical instant pudding and Oreo confection is sure to delight them. —Mary Alice Russell, Southern Living, 16 Apr. 2025

The fruits of those labors adorn the cafe’s rotating menu, which has seen everything from strawberry and coconut espressos to butterscotch pudding and crème brûlée lattes. —Jonathan Thompson, Travel + Leisure, 7 Apr. 2025

Word History

Etymology

Middle English

First Known Use

13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Phrases Containing pudding

• black pudding
• bread pudding
• Christmas pudding
• cottage pudding
• hasty pudding
• Indian pudding
• liver pudding
• pease pudding
• plum pudding
• pudding stone
• rice pudding
• snow pudding
• the proof is in the pudding
• the proof of the pudding is in the eating
• Yorkshire pudding

Rhymes for pudding

• gooding
• wooding

Kids Definition

pudding

noun

pud·​ding ˈpu̇d-iŋ 

1

: a boiled or baked soft food usually with a cereal base

corn pudding

2

: a soft, spongy, or thick creamy dessert

bread pudding