| 单词 | pudding |
| 释义 | pudding (once / 694 pages) n Pudding is a sweet, creamy dessert that you eat with a spoon. The song “We Wish You a Merry Christmas” implores someone to “bring us some figgy pudding,” but chocolate or vanilla would be much easier to find. Most pudding is made with milk, sugar, and flavoring with a thickening agent like cornstarch. Your favorite might be dark chocolate, butterscotch, or rice pudding. These are delicious, smooth, and usually served cold. In Britain, pudding simply means "dessert," but in North America pudding is a specific kind of after-dinner treat. Back in the 1300s, pudding had a different meaning: "a kind of sausage." You can still get that kind of blood pudding in England. If you must. WORD FAMILYpudding: puddings USAGE EXAMPLESWith roast spuds, Yorkshire pudding and stuffing, it is true that Christmas dinner is perhaps not the healthiest meal of the year. BBC(Dec 23, 2016) “My mother used to prepare plum pudding a year in advance,” Coe said. The New Yorker(Dec 23, 2016) Scott, writing in The Times, called this Richard Curtis comedy “an indigestible Christmas pudding.” New York Times(Dec 10, 2016) 1n any of various soft sweet desserts thickened usually with flour and baked or boiled or steamed Hypo|Hyper flummery a bland custard or pudding especially of oatmeal Christmas pudding, plum puddinga rich steamed or boiled pudding that resembles cake steamed puddinga pudding cooked by steaming duff, plum duffa stiff flour pudding steamed or boiled usually and containing e.g. currants and raisins and citron vanilla puddingsweet vanilla flavored custard-like pudding usually thickened with flour rather than eggs chocolate puddingsweet chocolate flavored custard-like pudding usually thickened with flour rather than eggs brown Bettybaked pudding of apples and breadcrumbs Nesselrode, Nesselrode puddinga rich frozen pudding made of chopped chestnuts and maraschino cherries and candied fruits and liqueur or rum pease puddinga pudding made with strained split peas mixed with egg tapioca puddingsweet pudding thickened with tapioca roly-poly, roly-poly puddingpudding made of suet pastry spread with jam or fruit and rolled up and baked or steamed suet puddinga sweet or savory pudding made with suet and steamed or boiled spotted dicka suet pudding containing currants afters, dessert, sweet a dish served as the last course of a meal 2n (British) the dessert course of a meal (`pud' is used informally) Syn|Hypo|Hyper pud trifle a cold pudding made of layers of sponge cake spread with fruit or jelly; may be decorated with nuts, cream, or chocolate tipsy cakea trifle soaked in wine and decorated with almonds and candied fruit afters, dessert, sweet a dish served as the last course of a meal 3n any of various soft thick unsweetened baked dishes corn pudding Hypo|Hyper carrot pudding pudding made with grated carrots corn puddingpudding made of corn and cream and egg dish a particular item of prepared food |
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