puddingy

English

Etymology

From pudding +‎ -y.

Adjective

puddingy (comparative puddingier, superlative puddingiest)

  1. Like pudding; having a heavy, stodgy texture.
    • 1999 August 21, Malcolm Gluck, “Superplonk”, in The Guardian Weekend, London: Guardian Media Group, →OCLC, page 31, column 2:
      A bargain pudding wine that puts to shame many much more higher priced examples (which often collapse when confronted with a devastatingly rich dessert[)]. Even puddingier is the 18% proof Marsala Superiore Garibalde Dolce, which Safeway sells for £6.33.
    • 2004 February 11, Christina Patterson, “Blue Creek Grill”, in The Aspen Times‎[1], Aspen, Colo.: Swift Communications, →OCLC, archived from the original on 28 January 2023:
      For dessert we nearly swooned over just the description of the Chocolate Bread Pudding, which the chef called (quite accurately) a kind of “brownie souffle.” This was the lightest, browniest, puddingiest, whipped creamiest little morsel imaginable.
  2. Having a podgy figure.
    • 1961, Xavier Herbert, Soldiers' Women, Netley, SA: Fontana Books, published 1978, page 346:
      Still, anyone would have recognized her for puddingy Pudsey.

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