pudding
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 →
2) A pudding is a soft, sweet, cooked dish such as rice pudding, bread-and-butter pudding or Christmas pudding. tree →
3) In the USA, pudding usually means a soft, creamy dessert like chocolate pudding. tree →
4) Some puddings are not sweet: Yorkshire pudding, black pudding. tree →
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 →
- We had sticky toffee pudding at Grandma's. tree →
- In America I ate chocolate pudding from a cup. tree →
- Yorkshire pudding is eaten with roast beef. tree →
- Eat your vegetables first, then you can have pudding. tree →
- The Christmas pudding was set alight with brandy. tree →
- «The proof of the pudding is in the eating» means you test a thing by using it. tree →
- So they both made a pudding. tree →
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).
- He lost his pudding, and Mum said it was more for the lie than for the biscuits.
- His grandma dropped her fork, the gravy went everywhere and Ollie lost his pudding.
- No pudding for either, and both were sent to wash their faces, which made everyone laugh.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «pudding» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.