plum pudding
noun🔊/ˌplʌm ˈpʊdɪŋ/
🔊/ˌplʌm ˈpʊdɪŋ/
[uncountable, countable] (British English, old-fashioned)a hot pudding (= sweet dish) like a dark fruit cake, traditionally eaten in the UK at Christmas synonym Christmas pudding Word Originearly 18th cent.: so named because the pudding was originally made with plums, the word plum being retained later to denote ‘raisin’, which became a substituted ingredient.