pudding

Significat (Anglès)

  1. (countable, uncountable) Any of various dishes, sweet or savoury, prepared by boiling or steaming, or from batter.
  2. (countable, uncountable) A type of cake or dessert cooked usually by boiling or steaming.
  3. (countable, uncountable) A type of dessert that has a texture similar to custard or mousse but using some kind of starch as the thickening agent.
  4. (Australia, New-Zealand, UK, countable, uncountable) Dessert; the dessert course of a meal.
  5. (countable, uncountable) A sausage made primarily from blood.
  6. (countable, slang, uncountable) An overweight person.
  7. (countable, endearing, uncountable) A term of endearment.
  8. (countable, slang, uncountable) Entrails.
  9. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) Any food or victuals.
  10. (archaic, countable, slang, uncountable) A piece of good fortune.

Conceptes

Freqüència

C1
Pronunciat com a (IPA)
/ˈpʊd.ɪŋ/
Etimologia (Anglès)

In summary

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. * 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.

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