pudding
- Top 5000
Sense 1
- noun
- B2
A sweet soft food made from milk and sugar, thick enough to eat with a spoon out of a dish.
I whisked the pudding powder into hot milk and let it set.
The pudding wobbled every time he touched the dish with his spoon.
She poured raspberry sauce over the cold vanilla pudding before serving it.
There are four small puddings in the fridge, one for each of us.
Common collocations: chocolate pudding · vanilla pudding · rice pudding · instant pudding · a dish of pudding
Sense 2 · less common
- noun
- B2
In Britain, the sweet food eaten at the end of a meal.
What are we having for pudding — something with apples, I hope.
He left half his dinner so he would have room for pudding.
We were far too full to order any pudding at all.
Common collocations: for pudding · have pudding · what's for pudding? · room for pudding · the pudding menu
Part of: Sweets, Restaurants
Forms
- plural
- puddings