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# pudding

noun (a pudding, puddings; pudding)

«pudding» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

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://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://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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pudding/#m3)
4. Some puddings are not sweet: Yorkshire pudding, black pudding. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pudding/#m4)

### 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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pudding/#x1)
- We had sticky toffee pudding at Grandma's. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pudding/#x2)
- In America I ate chocolate pudding from a cup. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pudding/#x3)
- Yorkshire pudding is eaten with roast beef. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pudding/#x4)
- Eat your vegetables first, then you can have pudding. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pudding/#x5)
- The Christmas pudding was set alight with brandy. [tree →](https://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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pudding/#x7)
- So they both made a pudding. [tree →](https://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.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «pudding» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pudding/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«pudding» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/pudding.html) on Mova free.