pudding
a sweet dessert that is soft and thick
A sweet food eaten as a dessert, especially a soft, creamy mixture made with milk and a thickener and served warm or chilled.
dessert (British English)
In British and some other varieties of English, the dessert course of a meal, or any sweet food served as dessert.
a kind of cooked sausage, sometimes made with blood
A savory food made from ingredients such as oats or other grains, fat, and sometimes blood, packed in a casing and cooked (for example, black pudding).
- Base: pudding
- Plural: pudding, puddings
black pudding
1blood sausage (UK/IE)
a sausage made with blood
- He tried black pudding for the first time at a café in Edinburgh.
- Some people eat black pudding as part of a cooked breakfast.
- The menu lists black pudding with scallops.
- Black pudding is a kind of sausage.
christmas pudding
1traditional British Christmas dessert
a traditional British dessert eaten at Christmas
- They set the Christmas pudding on fire with brandy before serving it.
- My grandmother makes Christmas pudding weeks in advance.
- We had Christmas pudding with custard.
- We eat Christmas pudding in December.
pudding bowl haircut
1bowl-cut hairstyle
a haircut shaped like a bowl
- In the old photo, he's wearing a classic pudding bowl haircut.
- She joked that his fringe looked like a pudding bowl haircut.
- The actor had a pudding bowl haircut for the role.
pudding head
1stupid person (insult)
a rude word for a stupid person
- Don't be such a pudding head—it's the wrong button.
- He called his brother a pudding head and got told off.
- I felt like a pudding head when I forgot her name.
the proof is in the pudding
1results show the true value
you only know if it works after you try it
- The new software looks impressive, but the proof is in the pudding once we start using it.
- He promised the changes would help; the proof is in the pudding.
- It sounds like a good idea, but the proof is in the pudding.
the proof is in the pudding
3results show real value
You can only know how good something is by trying it or seeing the results.
- You say your cake is great, but the proof is in the pudding.
- The design looks nice, but the proof is in the pudding once we test it.
yorkshire pudding
1baked batter dish with roasts
a baked batter side dish from the UK
- We had roast beef with Yorkshire puddings and gravy.
- Her Yorkshire pudding rose perfectly in the oven.
- You can make Yorkshire pudding in a muffin tin.
- Yorkshire pudding is served with roast dinner.