pudding

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
pudding/ˈpʊdɪŋ/

▶noun

• 1 chiefly Brit. a cooked sweet dish served after the main course of a meal.

  ■ the dessert course of a meal.

  ■ N. Amer. a dessert with a soft or creamy consistency.

• 2 a sweet or savoury steamed dish made with suet and flour.

• 3 Brit. the intestines of a pig or sheep stuffed with oatmeal, spices, and meat and boiled.

• 4 Brit. informal a fat or stupid person.

– phrases
in the pudding club Brit. informal pregnant.

– derivatives
puddingy adjective.

– origin ME: appar. from OFr. boudin ‘black pudding’, from L. botellus ‘sausage, small intestine’.