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- [kuhs-terd]
- /ˈkʌs tərd/
- /ˈkʌs.təd/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [kuhs-terd]
- /ˈkʌs tərd/
Definitions of custard word
- variable noun custard Custard is a sweet yellow sauce made from milk and eggs or from milk and a powder. It is eaten with fruit and puddings. 3
- noun custard a baked sweetened mixture of eggs and milk 3
- noun custard a sauce made of milk and sugar and thickened with cornflour 3
- noun custard a mixture of eggs, milk, flavoring, and, often, sugar, either boiled or baked 3
- noun custard frozen custard 3
- noun custard a dessert made of eggs, sugar, and milk, either baked, boiled, or frozen. 1
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Origin of custard
First appearance:
before 1400 One of the 24% oldest English words
1400-50; late Middle English, metathetic variant of earlier crustade kind of pie. See crust, -ade1; compare Provençal croustado
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Parts of speech for Custard
noun
adjective
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adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
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custard popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 84% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
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This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for custard
noun custard
- dessert — Dessert is something sweet, such as fruit or a pudding, that you eat at the end of a meal.
- tapioca — a food substance prepared from cassava in granular, flake, pellet (pearl tapioca) or flour form, used in puddings, as a thickener, etc.
- mousse — Cookery. a sweetened dessert with whipped cream as a base, often stabilized with gelatin and chilled in a mold: chocolate mousse. an aspic, unsweetened and containing meat, vegetables, or fish: salmon mousse.
- junket — a sweet, custardlike food of flavored milk curdled with rennet.
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