- (British English)
a sweet dish eaten at the end of a meal （餐末的）甜食，甜点 - (British English)
a hot sweet dish, often like a cake, made from flour, fat and eggs with fruit, jam, etc. in or on it 热布丁糕（用面粉、油、蛋制作，加水果、果酱等） treacle pudding 糖浆布丁
- (British English)
a hot dish like a pie with soft pastry made from flour, fat and eggs and usually filled with meat 热布丁饼（用面粉、油、蛋制作，通常用肉填充） a steak and kidney pudding 牛肉腰子布丁
- (especially North American English)
a cold dessert (= a sweet dish) like cream that tastes of fruit, chocolate, etc. 冷布丁（有水果、巧克力等口味） chocolate pudding 巧克力布丁
see also black pudding, Yorkshire pudding
Word OriginMiddle English (denoting a sausage such as black pudding): apparently from Old French boudin ‘black pudding’, from Latin botellus ‘sausage, small intestine’.
Idioms
over-egg the pudding
the proof of the pudding (is in the eating)
- (saying)
you can only judge if something is good or bad when you have tried it 只有通过体验才能判断事物的好坏