Meaning

noun any of various soft thick unsweetened baked dishes

noun (British) the dessert course of a meal (`pud' is used informally)

noun any of various soft sweet desserts thickened usually with flour and baked or boiled or steamed

originFrom circa 1305, Middle English podynge (“kind of sausage; meat-filled animal stomach”), puddynge, from Old French boudin (“blood sausage, black pudding”), from Latin botellus (“sausage, small intestine”). Doublet of boudin. * An alternative etymology assumes origin from Proto-Germanic *put-, *pud- (“to swell”) (compare dialectal English pod (“belly”), Old English puduc (“wen, sore”), Low German…

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0