"plum pudding" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: plum puddings [plural], plum-pudding [alternative]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} plum pudding (countable and uncountable, plural plum puddings)
  1. A pudding, cooked by boiling or steaming, containing a large amount of dried fruit. Tags: countable, uncountable Hypernyms: dessert, food Derived forms: plum pudding breed, plum pudding dog, plum-puddinger, plum pudding mahogany, plum pudding model, plum pudding stone, plum pudding voyage Coordinate_terms: Christmas pudding, figgy pudding, fruitcake, spotted dick Translations (pudding containing a large amount of dried fruit): 李子布丁 (lǐzi bùdīng) (Chinese Mandarin), prun’pudingo (Esperanto), luumuvanukas (Finnish), maróg rísíní [feminine] (Irish), budino di Natale [masculine] (Italian), budino natalizio [masculine] (Italian), plum pudding [masculine] (Polish), pudim de passas [masculine] (Portuguese), plumpudding [common-gender] (Swedish), pwdin plwm [masculine] (Welsh)

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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