plum pudding

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   a rich steamed or boiled pudding that resembles cake

   SynonymsChristmas pudding

   Broaderpudding

Questions about plum pudding

What does plum pudding mean?

plum pudding means "a rich steamed or boiled pudding that resembles cake".

What is another word for plum pudding?

Close synonyms include Christmas pudding. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is plum pudding a common word?

plum pudding is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.