different between rice vs pudding

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a?s/
• Rhymes: -a?s

Etymology 1

From Middle English rys, from Old French ris, from Old Italian riso, risi, from Byzantine Greek ????? (óruza), which see for more information.

Noun

rice (countable and uncountable, plural rices)

1. (uncountable) Cereal plants, Oryza sativa of the grass family whose seeds are used as food.
2. (countable) A specific variety of this plant.
3. (uncountable) The seeds of this plant used as food.
4. (uncountable, slang, ethnic slur, humorous) The types of automobile modifications characteristic of a rice burner.

Hyponyms

Holonyms

Coordinate terms

• (Cereals) cereal; barley, fonio, maize/corn, millet, oats, rice, rye, sorghum, teff, triticale, wheat

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

rice (third-person singular simple present rices, present participle ricing, simple past and past participle riced)

1. (transitive) To squeeze through a ricer; to mash or make into rice-sized pieces (especially potatoes).
2. (intransitive) To harvest wild rice (Zizania sp.)
3. (rare) To throw rice at a person (usually at a wedding).
4. (computing, transitive) To customize the user interface of a computer system, e.g. a desktop environment.

Etymology 2

From Middle English ris, rys, from Old English hr?s (“branch; twig”), from Proto-Germanic *hr?s? (“bush; twig”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kreys- (“to turn; bend; wind; move; shake”). Cognate with Scots reise, rice (“twigs; brushwood”), West Frisian riis, rys, Dutch rijs (“little branch; twig; osier; whip”), German Low German Ries, German Reis (“twig; sprig; shoot”), Swedish ris (“twigs; brush; rod”), Icelandic hrís.

Alternative forms

• rise

Noun

rice (plural rices)

1. (now chiefly, dialectal, Scotland, Ireland) A twig or stick.
2. (weaving, obsolete) A bobbin or spool.

Related terms

• rise-wood/risewood

Anagrams

• ERIC, Eric, cire, eric, icer

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?r?it?s?/, [?r?it?s?]

Verb

rice

1. third-person plural present of rica?

Old English

Etymology 1

From Proto-Germanic *r?kij?, from Proto-Celtic *r?giom (“kingdom”), derived from *r?xs (“king”). Cognate with Old Frisian r?ke, Old Saxon r?ki, Old Dutch r?ki, Old High German r?hhi, Old Norse ríki, Gothic ???????????????????? (reiki). The Indo-European root is also the source of Latin r?x.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ri?.t??e/

Noun

r??e n

1. kingdom, empire

2. authority, dominion

Declension

Derived terms

Related terms

• r??en
• r?csian

Descendants

• Middle English: ryche, riche
  • English: riche

Etymology 2

From Proto-West Germanic *r?k?, from Proto-Germanic *r?kijaz, from *r?kij?.

Related to Old Frisian r?ke (West Frisian ryk), Old Saxon r?ki (Low German riek), Old Dutch r?ki (Dutch rijk), Old High German r?hhi (German reich), Old Norse ríkr (Swedish rik), Gothic ???????????????????????????? (reikeis).

Adjective

r??e

1. rich
2. powerful

Declension

Descendants

• Middle English: rike
  • English: rich, riche
  • Scots: rik

See also

• r?csian

Old French

Adjective

rice m (oblique and nominative feminine singular rice)

1. (Picardy) Alternative form of riche

Spanish

Verb

rice

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of rizar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of rizar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of rizar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of rizar.

English

Etymology

From circa 1305, Middle English poding (“kind of sausage; meat-filled animal stomach”), puddyng, from Old French boudin (“blood sausage, black pudding”). 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 puddig (“swollen”), Westphalian Puddek (“lump, pudding”), Puddewurst (“black pudding”). More at pout.

Pronunciation

• enPR: po?od?ing, IPA^(key): /?p?d.??/
• Rhymes: -?d??

Noun

pudding (countable and uncountable, plural puddings)

1. Any of various dishes, sweet or savoury, prepared by boiling or steaming, or from batter.
   • 2004, Victoria Wise, The Pressure Cooker Gourmet, page 313,

     The dishes in this chapter represent a range of multiethnic savory custards and steamed puddings, including a few surprises like a chèvre popover pudding and a bread pudding with lettuce and cheese.

   • 2004, Sarah Garland, The Complete Book of Herbs & Spices, page 199,

     Steamed and boiled puddings have formed the basic diet of country people in northern Europe for centuries. Early puddings consisted of the scoured stomach of a sheep or pig, stuffed with its own suet and offal, which has been thickened with oatmeal, and boiled in water or baked in the ashes of a fire.

2. A type of cake or dessert cooked usually by boiling or steaming.
   • 2007, Magdaleen Van Wyk, The Complete South African Cookbook, page 265,

     Steamed puddings, a favourite for winter, are both easy to make and delicious. Served with one of the sweet sauces (recipes 497 to 506) they make a filling and satisfying end to a meal.

3. A type of dessert that has a texture similar to custard or mousse but using some kind of starch as the thickening agent.
4. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand) Dessert; the dessert course of a meal.

5. (originally) A sausage made primarily from blood.
6. (slang) An overweight person.
7. (slang) Entrails.
8. (obsolete) Any food or victuals.
   • 1718, Matthew Prior, Merry Andrew

     Eat your pudding, slave, and hold your tongue.

9. (archaic, slang) A piece of good fortune.

Synonyms

• (sausage made from blood): black pudding (UK), blood sausage
• (dessert): afters (UK informal), dessert, pud (UK slang), sweet (British)
• (custard-like dessert): custard, crème caramel, crème brûlée, flan, mousse

Derived terms

Descendants

Translations

References

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English pudding.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?.d??/
• Hyphenation: pud?ding

Noun

pudding m (plural puddingen, diminutive puddinkje n)

1. A pudding, dessert of the custard-type

Derived terms

• chocoladepudding
• drilpudding
• griesmeelpudding
• vanillepudding

French

Alternative forms

• pouding (post-1990 spelling)

Etymology

Borrowed from English pudding. Doublet of boudin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pu.di?/
• Rhymes: -i?

Noun

pudding m (plural puddings)

1. any dish formed from putting the leftovers of a place such as a bakery together, and mixing them all into one

Descendants

• ? Romanian: budinc?
• ? Turkish: puding

Further reading

• “pudding” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Polish

Etymology

From English pudding.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pu.dink/

Noun

pudding m inan

1. pudding (boiled or steamed cake or dessert)

Declension

Further reading

• pudding in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• pudding in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English pudding, from Old French boudin, of uncertain origin. Doublet of budín, pudín, and pudin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pudin/, [?pu.ð??n]
• Homophone: pudin

Noun

pudding m (plural puddings)

1. pudding (particularly British types)

Swedish

Etymology

From English pudding.

Noun

pudding c

1. A cake or dessert prepared by boiling or steaming.
2. Any of various savoury dishes prepared in a similar way to a sweet pudding.
3. A type of dessert that has a texture similar to custard or mousse but using some kind of starch as the thickening agent.
4. (slang) An attractive person; a hottie.

Declension