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

Sticky toffee pudding with vanilla ice cream and warm toffee sauce makes up the champion’s dinner dessert option. —Chantz Martin, FOXNews.com, 18 Mar. 2026

This dessert has everything Grandpa loves about banana pudding, but in a delicious pie form. —Jenna Sims, Southern Living, 16 Mar. 2026

Egypt’s dishes include crispy falafel, sizzling shrimp, Egyptian style steak and fries, swordfish steak, lamb loin chop, Egyptian milk pudding. —Pamela McLoughlin, Hartford Courant, 16 Mar. 2026

Adebayo ate a brunch-like pregame meal on Tuesday that included chia seed pudding, French toast and turkey sausages. —Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 14 Mar. 2026

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