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单词 pudding
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pudding

noun
/ˈpʊdɪŋ/
/ˈpʊdɪŋ/
(British English, informal pud)
[uncountable, countable]Idioms
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  1. (British English) a sweet dish eaten at the end of a meal
    • What's for pudding?
    • I haven't made a pudding today.
    synonym afters, dessert, sweetTopics Foodb2, Cooking and eatingb2
  2. (British English) a hot sweet dish, often like a cake, made from flour, fat and eggs with fruit, jam, etc. in or on it
    • treacle pudding
    see also bread pudding, bread-and-butter pudding, cabinet pudding, Christmas pudding, milk pudding, plum pudding, queen of puddings, rice pudding, sponge pudding, summer puddingTopics Foodb2
  3. (British English) a hot dish like a pie with soft pastry made from flour, fat and eggs and usually filled with meat
    • a steak and kidney pudding
    see also blood pudding, pease pudding, steak and kidney puddingTopics Foodc1
  4. (especially North American English) a cold dessert (= a sweet dish) like cream that tastes of fruit, chocolate, etc.
    • chocolate pudding
    Topics Foodb2
  5. see also black pudding, Yorkshire pudding
    Word OriginMiddle English (denoting a sausage such as black pudding): apparently from Old French boudin ‘black pudding’, from Latin botellus ‘sausage, small intestine’.
Idioms
over-egg the pudding
  1. used to say that you think somebody has done more than is necessary, or has added unnecessary details to make something seem better or worse than it really is
    • If you're telling lies, keep it simple—never over-egg the pudding.
the proof of the pudding (is in the eating)
  1. (saying) you can only judge if something is good or bad when you have tried it
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