# pudding

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈpʊd.ɪŋ/ · frequency rank #12,841

## Definitions
1. Any of various dishes, sweet or savoury, prepared by boiling or steaming, or from batter.
2. A type of cake or dessert cooked usually by boiling or steaming.
3. A type of dessert that has a texture similar to custard or mousse but using some kind of starch as the thickening agent.
4. Dessert; the dessert course of a meal.
5. A sausage made primarily from blood.
6. An overweight person.
7. A term of endearment.
8. Entrails.
9. Any food or victuals.
10. A piece of good fortune.

## Etymology
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”). Doublet of boudin.
* An alternative etymology assumes origin from Proto-Germanic *put-, *pud- (“to swell”) (compare dialectal English pod (“belly”), Old English puduc (“wen, sore”), Low German puddig (“swollen”), Westphalian Puddek (“lump, pudding”), Puddewurst (“black pudding”). More at pout.

## Easily confused with
- **puking** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pudding-vs-puking)
- **putting** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pudding-vs-putting)
- **pushing** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pudding-vs-pushing)
- **pulling** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pudding-vs-pulling)
- **pumping** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pudding-vs-pumping)
- **purging** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pudding-vs-purging)
- **pulsing** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pudding-vs-pulsing)
- **puffing** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pudding-vs-puffing)
- **purring** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pudding-vs-purring)
- **punting** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pudding-vs-punting)
- **pending** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pending-vs-pudding)
- **padding** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/padding-vs-pudding)
- **pounding** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pounding-vs-pudding)
- **peddling** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/peddling-vs-pudding)
- **paddling** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/paddling-vs-pudding)
- **prodding** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/prodding-vs-pudding)
- **plodding** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/plodding-vs-pudding)

## Common misspellings (9)
`pduding`, `ppudding`, `puddign`, `puddingg`, `puddinng`, `puddnig`, `pudidng`, `puding`, `updding`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/pudding