n.
    - chiefly Brit. a cooked sweet dish served after the main course of a meal. 
▸the dessert course of a meal.
 ▸N. Amer. a dessert with a soft or creamy consistency.
 - a sweet or savoury steamed dish made with suet and flour.
 - Brit. the intestines of a pig or sheep stuffed with oatmeal, spices, and meat and boiled.
 - Brit. informal a fat or stupid person.
 
 
  Phrase
  
    
      - in the pudding club
 Brit. informal pregnant. 
    
   
  Derivative
  
  Etymology
  ME: appar. from OFr. boudin ‘black pudding’, from L. botellus ‘sausage, small intestine’.