- a thick, soft dessert, typically containing flour or some other thickener, milk, eggs, a flavoring, and sweetener: tapioca pudding.
- a similar dish unsweetened and served with or as a main dish: corn pudding.
- the dessert course of a meal.
- a pad or fender for preventing scraping or chafing or for lessening shock between vessels or other objects.
- a sweetened usually cooked dessert made in many forms and of various ingredients, such as flour, milk, and eggs, with fruit, etc
- a savoury dish, usually soft and consisting partially of pastry or batter
- the dessert course in a meal
- a sausage-like mass of seasoned minced meat, oatmeal, etc, stuffed into a prepared skin or bag and boiled