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icing

icing

46 1.0
A sweet thick spread used to coat and decorate cakes
  • noun
  • /ˈaɪsɪŋ/
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  • After baking the cake, she carefully applied a layer of icing to make it look beautiful.
  • icing on the cake

What you'll need is your pink cookie icing and sprinkles.

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Examples

  • Kate takes the bite; a little piece of icing sticks to the side of her mouth.

    Fiction book (2000)
  • Andrew stood on tiptoe, his nose almost touching the glossy icing of a chocolate cake.

    Fiction book (1993)
  • OK, I think the icing is done.

  • One last check round the side and the icing is done.

  • Then add on some black icing for the arms.

  • This is really great icing, like I really like it a lot.

  • Oh, and if you could keep the icing nice and simple.

  • I was afraid the icing would melt if I left them in the car.

    Fiction book (2002)
  • So chocolate icing for a little glue.

  • Both the chocolate and the honey icing are ruined.

Synonyms

ice
vsicing
117 1.0

A sweet soft topping spread over cakes to decorate them

is defined as mainly sugar based rather than any coating
frosting
vsicing
  • US
49 1.0

A sweet spread people put on cakes to cover and decorate them

is described more narrowly as mainly sugar used to coat and decorate
buttercream
vsicing
9 2.4

A sweet creamy icing made from butter and sugar for decorating cakes and pastries

is a general sugar based coating not limited to butter content

Idioms

10 3.1

An extra good thing that makes a situation better

Compounds

1 1.6

Very finely powdered sugar used to make sweet toppings and decorations

5.1

A small kitchen tool with a plunger that you use to put icing on cakes

8.6

Shooting the puck from your defensive zone past the center and opponent goal line without it being touched, stopping play

How Thick

fondant
  • Specialized
5 4.7
icing
46 1.0
glaze
43 3.7

Surface Forms

icing singular
icings plural

Morphology

icing = ice (transparent) = ice + ing

Derived directly from the verb 'ice' + the deverbal suffix '-ing', meaning the substance/result of icing, which is predictable from the base.

Etymology

Icing comes from ice, which means 'frozen water', because early sugar covers looked smooth and shiny like a thin layer of ice. That's why icing now means a sweet coating put over cakes.