fruit custard

1.1

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

noun
/frut ˈkʌstərd/

: natilla de frutas

My grandmother taught me how to make fruit custard using fresh mangoes and bananas.

Examples

We served fruit custard for dessert at the dinner party.
Can you make a fruit custard for the party?
Chilled fruit custard is especially popular during the summer months.
I love fruit custard for dessert.
Chilled fruit custard is especially popular during the summer months.
My grandmother taught me how to make fruit custard using fresh mangoes and bananas.
We served fruit custard for dessert at the dinner party.

How Rich

cheesecake

68 1.0

trifle

4 3.5

fruit custard

1.1

fruit compote

1 4.1

fruit salad

13 1.0

Surface Forms

fruit custard singular

fruit custards plural

Morphology

fruit + custard

The meaning is directly compositional: 'fruit' modifies 'custard' to indicate custard that contains fruit, so a learner who knows both words can infer the dessert sense. This noun+noun modifier pattern is regular in English and common across languages, making the expression immediately understandable to a B1 learner.

Etymology

Fruit custard is a simple, clear name: it means a sweet, creamy custard mixed with pieces of fruit, so you can picture soft yellow custard with colorful fruit pieces. That's why it means 'a dessert made by combining a sweet custard with pieces of fruit'.