pudding – English noun declension

English noun forms of pudding

Noun: pudding
Singularpudding
Pluralpuddings

Sample Sentences

  • The dishes in this chapter represent a range of multiethnic savory custards and steamed puddings, including a few surprises like a chèvre popover pudding and a bread pudding with lettuce and cheese. [2004, Victoria Wise, The Pressure Cooker Gourmet, page 313:]
  • Steamed and boiled puddings have formed the basic diet of country people in northern Europe for centuries. Early puddings consisted of the scoured stomach of a sheep or pig, stuffed with its own suet and offal, which has been thickened with oatmeal, and boiled in water or baked in the ashes of a fire. [2004, Sarah Garland, The Complete Book of Herbs & Spices, page 199:]
  • Steamed puddings, a favourite for winter, are both easy to make and delicious. Served with one of the sweet sauces (recipes 497 to 506) they make a filling and satisfying end to a meal. [2007, Magdaleen Van Wyk, The Complete South African Cookbook, page 265:]
  • Harold Winstanley: Is there any pudding?
  • Doris Winstanley: Oh, yes. Rhubarb cobbler left over from Sunday. [1998 March 29, Caroline Graham, “Death of a Hollow Man”, in Midsomer Murders:]
  • Jane Cavendish: Have you tried some fresh strawberry cheesecake?
  • Tara Cavendish: Nope. I don't eat puddings. [1999 September 12, Anthony Horowitz et al., “Dead Man's Eleven”, in Midsomer Murders:]
  • We have apple pie for pudding today.
  • "How is my little pudding?" Jehan nuzzles up to me and rests his little head on my shoulder, still chuckling […] [2005, Ruzbeh N. Bharucha, Rest in Pieces, page 7:]
  • I pray God he may recover, though there is little hopes; as there is of Coll Halley, being shott throw the body; and of Capt. Urquhart of Burdyeyeards, being wounded in the belly, after being made prisoner, soe that his puddings hang out. [1715 November 15, To Mr James Neilsone, opposite the Tolbooth, Berwick; published as “Battle of Sheriffmuir”, in The Edinburgh Magazine, 26 March 1818, page 241:]
  • PUDDINGS, the guts; I'll let out your puddings. [[1785, Francis Grose, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue:]
  • Eat your pudding, slave, and hold your tongue. [1718, Matthew Prior, Merry Andrew:]

Etymology

1. From circa 1305, Middle English podynge (“kind of sausage; meat-filled animal stomach”), puddynge, from Old French boudin (“blood sausage, black pudding”), from Latin botellus (“sausage, small intestine”). Doublet of boudin.
2. * An alternative etymology assumes origin from Proto-Germanic *put-, *pud- (“to swell”) (compare dialectal English pod (“belly”), Old English puduc (“wen, sore”), Low German puddig (“swollen”), Westphalian Puddek (“lump, pudding”), Puddewurst (“black pudding”). More at pout. See: Middle English Nouns 'podynge', Latin Nouns 'botellus', English Nouns 'pod', Old English Nouns 'puduc'.

Verbs referencing "pudding"

Dutch Nouns pudding, French Nouns pudding, Swedish Nouns pudding, German Nouns Pudding, Spanish Nouns pudin, Spanish Nouns pudín, English Nouns poutine, French Nouns poutine, Hungarian Nouns puding, Romanian Nouns puding, Russian Nouns пудинг, Ukrainian Nouns пудинг, Spanish Nouns budín, Italian Nouns puddinga, Romanian Nouns budincă, Finnish Nouns putinki, Ukrainian Nouns пундик, Belarusan Nouns пудынг.