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# pudding

«pudding» in Mova's school dictionary: **In the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand, pudding…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a pudding, puddings; pudding)

### meaning for a pupil

1) In the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand, pudding (or «pud») can mean any sweet dish eaten after the main meal (dessert). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pudding/#m1)

2) A pudding is a soft, sweet, cooked dish such as rice pudding, bread-and-butter pudding or Christmas pudding. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pudding/#m2)

3) In the USA, pudding usually means a soft, creamy dessert like chocolate pudding. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pudding/#m3)

4) Some puddings are not sweet: Yorkshire pudding, black pudding. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pudding/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life children ask «What's for pudding?» after dinner. In stories and at Christmas a pudding may have a coin hidden inside. Phrases: «What's for pudding?», «Christmas pudding», «rice pudding», «the proof of the pudding is in the eating».

### examples

- What's for pudding tonight? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pudding/#x1)
- We had sticky toffee pudding at Grandma's. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pudding/#x2)
- In America I ate chocolate pudding from a cup. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pudding/#x3)
- Yorkshire pudding is eaten with roast beef. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pudding/#x4)
- Eat your vegetables first, then you can have pudding. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pudding/#x5)
- The Christmas pudding was set alight with brandy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pudding/#x6)
- «The proof of the pudding is in the eating» means you test a thing by using it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pudding/#x7)
- So they both made a pudding. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pudding/#x8)

### note

Countable (a pudding) and uncountable (some pudding). Meaning differs by country: UK «pudding» = any dessert; US «pudding» = a creamy dessert. Not every pudding is sweet.

### In the corpora

- ["In the pudding club" means pregnant (British slang, jokey).](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/11-pregnancy-and-birth/6/)
- [He lost his pudding, and Mum said it was more for the lie than for the biscuits.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/336-little-lies-at-home/2/)
- [His grandma dropped her fork, the gravy went everywhere and Ollie lost his pudding.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/406-toxic-players-and-swearing/13/)
- [No pudding for either, and both were sent to wash their faces, which made everyone laugh.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/432-it-was-him-siblings-blaming-each-other/5/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «pudding» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pudding/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.