pudding Definition

pudding
noun

1. Any of several sweet or savoury foods usually made with flour and eggs and cooked by steaming, boiling or baking. Often in compounds.

Example: rice pudding
Example: steak and kidney pudding
2a. Any sweet food served as dessert;

Thesaurus: custard, mousse, tapioca, junket, dessert.
2b. The dessert course.
3. A type of sausage made with minced meat, spices, blood, oatmeal, etc.

Example: black pudding

Etymology: 13c as poding a kind of sausage.