/'pʊdɪŋ; `pudɪŋ/
n
1 [C, U] (also infml 口语作 pud / pUd; pJd/) (Brit) (dish of) sweet food eaten at the end of a meal; dessert （一道）甜食（于餐末食用）; 甜点心
*There isn't a pudding today. 今天没有甜食.
* What's for pudding? 甜点吃什么? Cf 参看 afters.
2 (a) [C, U] (also Brit infml 英式口语作 pud) sweet or savoury dish usu made with flour and cooked by baking, boiling or steaming 布丁（通常用面粉经烘烤或蒸煮做成的美味甜食品）
*bread and butter pudding 面包黄油布丁
* rice pudding 大米布丁
* steak and kidney pudding 牛排腰子布丁
* Christmas/plum pudding 圣诞布丁.
(b) [C] thing like this in texture or appearance; (person with a) large, fat face 材料或外观似布丁之物; 肥胖而大的脸; 面孔肥胖而大的人
*[attrib 作定语] pudding face 大胖脸.
3 [C, U] any of various types of sausage 香肠
*black pudding, ie a type of blood sausage made with oatmeal 黑香肠（用燕麦片与血制成）.
4 [C] (also `pudding head) (infml 口) fat and slow or stupid person 肥胖而迟钝的人; 笨蛋.
5 (idm 习语) the proof of the pudding =>proof1.


各种软的加糖的甜点，通常用面粉增稠，然后烘焙、煮或蒸

任何软的、浓的、不加糖烘焙的菜

n [U and C]
[Date: 1200-1300; Language: Old French;Origin: boudin, from Latin botellus 'sausage']
especially BrE a hot sweet dish, made from cake, rice, bread etc with fruit, milk or other sweet things added
especially AmE a thick sweet creamy dish, usually made with milk, eggs, sugar, and flour, and served cold
　chocolate pudding
BrE a sweet dish served at the end of a meal
for pudding
　There's ice-cream for pudding.
→dessert
BrE 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 eatingatproof¹ (4)


any of various soft sweet desserts thickened usually with flour and baked or boiled or steamed

any of various soft thick unsweetened baked dishes