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custard

custard

28 1.0
A sweet thick mix of milk and eggs used as a dessert or filling
  • noun
  • /ˈkʌstərd/
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  • 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
41 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

1 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 3.7

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

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

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

5.9

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

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

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
68 1.0
jam
76 1.0
custard
28 1.0
filling
4 1.0
syrup
203 1.0
sauce
569 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.