pud ‧ ding S3 /ˈpʊdɪŋ/ BrE AmE noun [uncountable and countable]
[ Date: 1200-1300 ; Language: Old French ; Origin: boudin , from Latin botellus 'sausage' ]
1 . especially British English a hot sweet dish, made from cake, rice, bread etc with fruit, milk, or other sweet things added
2 . especially American English a thick sweet creamy dish, usually made with milk, eggs, sugar, and flour, and served cold:
chocolate pudding
3 . British English a sweet dish served at the end of a meal
for pudding
There’s ice cream for pudding.
⇨ ↑ dessert
4 . British English a hot dish made of a mixture of flour, fat etc, with meat or vegetables inside:
steak and kidney pudding
⇨ ↑ black pudding , ↑ Christmas pudding , ↑ milk pudding , ↑ plum pudding , ↑ Yorkshire pudding , ⇨ the proof of the pudding is in the eating at ↑ proof 1 (4)