pudding
/ˈpʊdɪŋ/noun
1
- a cooked sweet dish served after the main course of a meal布丁(主食后的甜点):
a rice pudding
大米布丁
mass noun a good helping of pudding.一份丰厚的布丁。
1.1
- mass noun chiefly Brit. the dessert course of a meal〈主英〉甜食:
what's for pudding?
甜食是什么?
1.2
- N. Amer. a dessert with a soft or creamy consistency〈北美〉布丁。
2
- a sweet or savoury steamed dish made with suet and flour(用牛、羊板油、面粉制作的)牛(或羊)油布丁:
a steak and kidney pudding.
牛排腰子布丁。
2.1
- the intestines of a pig or sheep stuffed with oatmeal, spices, and meat and boiled血香肠, 黑香肠。参见BLACK PUDDING, BLOOD PUDDING.
2.2
- informal a fat, dumpy, or stupid person〈非正式〉矮胖子, 呆头呆脑的人:
away with you, you big pudding!
滚开, 你这矮冬瓜!
2.3
- in the pudding club Brit. informal pregnant〈英, 非正式〉怀孕的。
派生词
puddingy
adjective词源
Middle English (denoting a sausage such as black pudding): apparently from Old French boudin 'black pudding',from Latin botellus 'sausage,small intestine'.