What does pudding mean?
Word: Pudding
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: Pudding means a sweet dish, often soft and served warm, such as rice pudding. In British English it can also mean the sweet course at the end of any meal.
Synonyms: dessert
How do you spell pudding?
Syllables: pud - ding
Tricky part: There are two d's in the middle. Say it fast and it is easy to write only one, as in puding.
Watch out for: puding, pudin
Memory tip: Picture two spoons standing up in a bowl of pudding: one spoon for each d.
Pudding in a sentence
Example 1: Mum made a rice pudding with cardamom and raisins for Dad's birthday.
Example 2: After lunch, we each had a small bowl of warm pudding.
Example 3: The bread pudding at the school fair sold out in an hour.
Fun Fact
Long ago in Britain a pudding was often savoury, not sweet; Yorkshire pudding, eaten with meat and gravy, still keeps that old meaning.
Practise the CREST Way
Spellacadabra
Choose the option in which the following letters will fit in the given order:
u, i
a) b__tt__r
b) p__dd__ng
c) k__tt__n
d) p__ck__t
Show answer
b) p__dd__ng. With u and then i in the gaps, the sweet dish appears; the other words need different vowels.
Jumble Tumble
Which option has letters that you can rearrange to form the name of a sweet dish?
a) dupgend
b) dupgindd
c) dupind
d) dupgind
Show answer
d) dupgind. Only dupgind has the same seven letters as pudding; the others have a letter changed, added or missing.
Sound Check
Which of the following words has the same first vowel sound as pudding?
a) book
b) duck
c) moon
d) cube
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a) book. Pudding starts with the short, soft sound of the oo in book; duck, moon and cube sound different.
Word Champ
Which of the words cannot be made using the letters in the given word?
pudding
a) pin
b) pump
c) dig
d) pug
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b) pump. An m is what pump brings in, and pudding has none.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. At a wedding feast, which of these is most likely to be the pudding?
a) green salad
b) ice cream
c) bread rolls
d) rice
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b) ice cream
2. Rice pudding is a sweet dish. What is it mostly made from?
a) rice and lentils
b) bread and butter
c) flour and water
d) rice and milk
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d) rice and milk
