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custard

custard

27 1.0
A sweet thick mix of milk and eggs used as a dessert or filling
  • noun
  • /ˈkʌstərd/
: natilla
  • Let it sit for 30 minutes to allow the custard to totally soak into the bread.
  • custard bean
  • soybean custard

They taste a bit like a custard cream but with a thin layer of chocolate in the middle.

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Examples

  • That's when I noticed the bowl full of custard on the counter behind her.

    Blog text (15)
  • Flan is a form of custard usually served with a caramel sauce and sometimes even with pralines.

    Academic text (2003)
  • My buddy made and burnt a custard for her ice cream and served it.

    Blog text (14)
  • No, no, I want it with custard not whipped cream.

  • I haven't had a good custard in years.

  • French vanilla with coconut custard?

  • For he is eating banana custard at Coney Island, and now he's going home.

    Fiction book (1992)
  • I love custard creams.

  • Fresh custard tarts.

  • She poured the rich custard over the warm cake to create a delicious dessert.

Synonyms

pudding
vscustard
136 1.0

A soft sweet dessert made with milk and sugar

is an egg and milk mixture thickened by heating served as dessert or filling

Compounds

2 2.4

A pie filled with sweet custard that people throw in the face to be funny

1 2.3

A cold sweet dessert like ice cream made with eggs and cream

1 5.9

A sweet, soft fruit from a tropical tree that you eat fresh

1 3.7

A soft, smooth, thick texture like a sweet dessert cream

A sweet, thick dessert of milk and eggs mixed with pieces of fruit

A tropical tree from the Americas that grows sweet, soft fruit

A group of mainly tropical trees and shrubs that includes the custard apple and related fruit trees

9.9

A very messy, confused mix of things in one place

A tropical tree that has large spiky fruit with juicy sour flesh

How Thick

paste
70 1.0
jam
67 1.0
custard
27 1.0
filling
45 1.0
syrup
180 1.0
sauce
652 1.0

Surface Forms

custard singular
custards plural

Etymology

Custard comes from an old French word crustade, which named a kind of pie with a 'crust'. Because the creamy egg filling was the best part of that pie, the word changed to mean the sweet, thick milk-and-egg filling we eat today.