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hot-fudge sauce

hot-fudge sauce

1 1.2
Thick hot chocolate that you pour over ice cream
  • noun
  • /hɑt fʌdʒ sɔs/
  • US
translation icon : salsa de chocolate caliente
  • Hot fudge sauce.

Examples

  • And I brought brownies with hot fudge sauce.

  • No, that's a recipe for hot fudge sauce.

  • Peanut butter, hot fudge sauce, slight orange flavor.

  • (I fill the milkshake cup with chocolate ice cream and use hot fudge sauce instead of chocolate syrup.)

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  • You can enhance your dessert with a generous drizzle of hot-fudge sauce.

  • For a delightful treat, pour hot-fudge sauce over your vanilla ice cream.

  • Many people love to add hot-fudge sauce to their sundaes for an extra chocolatey flavor.

Synonyms

chocolate sauce
vshot-fudge sauce
7 1.0

A sweet sauce made from chocolate and sugar to pour over desserts

is richer and thicker and served warm rather than a simple topping
chocolate syrup
vshot-fudge sauce
3 1.0

A sweet, thick chocolate sauce for pouring on desserts and mixing into drinks

is used mainly as a warm topping for ice cream rather than for drinks
fudge sauce
vshot-fudge sauce
1 1.0

A thick chocolate sauce served hot over desserts like ice cream

is used more often on ice cream than on other desserts

How Thick

paste
68 1.0
ganache
  • Specialized
6 6.3
hot-fudge sauce
  • US
1 1.2

Surface Forms

Morphology

hot-fudge + sauce

The meaning 'a thick, rich chocolate sauce served hot' is directly inferable from the constituents: 'hot' (warm), 'fudge' (a chocolate confection) and 'sauce' (a condiment). Although 'hot-fudge' may not appear as a separate dictionary entry, the modifier+noun+noun composition is straightforward and common cross-linguistically, so a B1 learner who knows the parts will readily understand the MWE.

Etymology

The noun hot-fudge sauce comes from heating thick fudge until it becomes a pourable sauce and serving it warm. So, it means a thick, hot chocolate 'topping' you pour over ice cream.