​(British English) a sweet dish eaten at the end of a meal · ​(British English) a hot sweet dish, often like a cake, made from flour, fat and eggs with fruit, ... Milk pudding · Plum pudding · Yorkshire pudding · Black pudding

[uncountable, countable] a cold dessert (= a sweet dish) like cream, flavored with fruit, vanilla, chocolate, etc.

There are 21 meanings listed in OED's entry for the noun pudding, seven of which are labelled obsolete. See 'Meaning & use' for definitions, usage, ...

a kind of sausage. The link between this and the modern meaning is the idea of putting a filling into a casing, as is done when making sausages.

There are two meanings listed in OED's entry for the verb pudding, one of which is labelled obsolete. See 'Meaning & use' for definitions, usage, and quotation ...

[uncountable, countable] a pudding (= sweet dish) made with milk and rice, or with milk and another grain

a hot pudding (= sweet dish) like a dark fruit cake, traditionally eaten in the UK at Christmas. synonym Christmas pudding.

​a hot dish made from dried peas that are left in water and then boiled until they form a soft mass, usually served with ham or pork. Want to learn more?

a hot pudding (= sweet dish) containing raisins, cooked in steam (= gas produced when water boils)

noun /ˈpʊdɪŋ beɪsn/ /ˈpʊdɪŋ beɪsn/ (British English) a deep round bowl that is used for mixing food or for cooking puddings.