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custard

cus·tard
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Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • UK Pronunciation
    • UK IPA
    • [kuhs-terd]
    • /ˈkʌs tərd/
    • /ˈkʌs.təd/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [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
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation

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".

custard usage trend in Literature

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Synonyms 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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