pudding

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Related topics: Food, dish

pud·ding /ˈpʊdɪŋ/ S3 noun [countableC, uncountableU]

1. DFF especially British EnglishBrE a hot sweet dish, made from cake, rice, bread etc with fruit, milk, or other sweet things added 布丁〔由蛋糕、大米、面包等加水果、牛奶或其他甜味东西制成的热甜食〕

2 DFF especially American EnglishAmE a thick sweet creamy dish, usually made with milk, eggs, sugar, and flour, and served cold 布丁〔通常用牛奶、蛋、糖和面粉制成的厚奶油状冷甜食〕

chocolate pudding

巧克力布丁

3 British EnglishBrEDFFDFF a sweet dish served at the end of a meal 〔餐末食用的〕甜食，甜点心

for pudding

There’s ice cream for pudding.

甜点有冰激凌。

→ dessert

4 British EnglishBrEDFF a hot dish made of a mixture of flour, fat etc, with meat or vegetables inside 〔用面粉、油等混合、内包有肉馅或蔬菜馅的〕不加糖布丁

steak and kidney pudding

牛排加腰子布丁

→ black pudding , Christmas pudding , milk pudding , plum pudding , Yorkshire pudding, → the proof of the pudding is in the eating at proof1(4)

Examples from the Corpus

pudding• Lots of cherries and other fruit and good boozy flavour - a cross between Christmas cake and pudding.• bread pudding• Ground cloves, if available can produce a delicious flavour in Christmas puddings.• There was quite a good helping of pudding but only a tiny piece of meat.• Over the generations, it has been transformed into a kind of set pudding with a rather tart flavour and honeycomb-like texture.• The purple-skinned eggplant is baked to almost a soft pudding.• Jean-Claude had never tasted steamed puddings before and he liked them.• Substantial puddings like these were once a vital fuel and restorative for those who laboured in the fields.• And the proof of the pudding is 40% revenue growth worldwide year-on-year.

steak and kidney pudding• It seems he's able to lay on steak and kidney pudding.• Brendan's steak and kidney pudding is definitive.• I wondered how they would take to steak and kidney pudding, oxtail soup, and plum duff.

Origin pudding

(1200-1300) Old French boudin, from Latin botellus “sausage”

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