Толковый словарь английского языка

[Date: 1200-1300; Language: Old French; Origin: boudin, from Latin botellus 'sausage']

1. especially British English a hot sweet dish, made from cake, rice, bread etc with fruit, milk, or other sweet things added

2. especially American English a thick sweet creamy dish, usually made with milk, eggs, sugar, and flour, and served cold:

chocolate pudding

3. British English a sweet dish served at the end of a meal

for pudding

There’s ice cream for pudding. ⇨ ↑dessert

4. British English a hot dish made of a mixture of flour, fat etc, with meat or vegetables inside:

steak and kidney pudding

⇨ ↑black pudding, ↑Christmas pudding, ↑milk pudding, ↑plum pudding, ↑Yorkshire pudding, ⇨ the proof of the pudding is in the eating at ↑proof¹(4)