Other forms: puddings
A pudding is a soft sweet dessert that wobbles on the spoon. Sticky toffee pudding, a milk pudding, pudding and custard.
In British use pudding also means the dessert course generally — what's for pudding — and it covers savoury things too: black pudding, Yorkshire pudding, steak and kidney pudding. The word started at the savoury end: it meant a sausage, a stuffed animal stomach, which is what black pudding still is.
1nounpuddingA soft sweet dessert.
“What's for pudding? I hope it's apple crumble.”
2nouncourseThe dessert course, in British use.
“Would anyone like pudding, or shall I just bring the coffee?”
pudding is a food.
Also accepted in games: custard, flan
Middle English podynge meant a kind of sausage, from Old French boudin, a blood sausage, from Latin botellus, a small intestine.
Latin
botellus — sausage, small intestine
Old French
boudin — blood sausage, black pudding
Middle English
podynge — kind of sausage; meat-filled animal stomach
English, today
pudding
From circa 1305, Middle English podynge (“kind of sausage; meat-filled animal stomach”), puddynge, from Old French boudin (“blood sausage, black pudding”), from Latin botellus (“sausage, small intestine”). a doublet of boudin.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA