puddingy

comparative puddingier · superlative puddingiest

1. Like pudding; having a heavy, stodgy texture.

   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.

   2004 February 11, Christina Patterson, “Blue Creek Grill”, in The Aspen Times, Aspen, Colo.: Swift Communications, →OCLC, archived from the original on 28 Jan 2023

   2 more examples

   I compared it [sc. breadfruit] to Yorkshire pudding; Charles Allen said it was like mashed potatoes and milk. It is generally about the size of a melon, a little fibrous towards the centre, but everywhere else quite smooth and puddingy, something in consistence between yeast-dumplings and batter-pudding.

   1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., page 476

   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.

   1999 August 21, Malcolm Gluck, “Superplonk”, in The Guardian Weekend, London: Guardian Media Group, →OCLC, page 31, column 2

2. Having a podgy figure.

   Still, anyone would have recognized her for puddingy Pudsey.

   1961, Xavier Herbert, Soldiers' Women, Netley, SA: Fontana Books, published 1978, page 346