ice milk
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3.1
- noun
- /aɪs mɪlk/
- Archaic
:
helado de leche
- I love following them up with a nice bowl of non-fat ice milk, wintergreen flavored.
- vanilla ice milk
Examples
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For a healthy dessert, try making strawberry ice milk with fresh fruit.
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It tastes similar to ice milk with little flavor and even less creaminess.
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I enjoy a bowl of chocolate ice milk on hot summer days.
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You can make vanilla ice milk by blending milk with vanilla extract and freezing it.
Synonyms
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1.0
A cold sweet treat made from milk or cream in different flavors
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2.5
A creamy Italian frozen dessert thicker than ice cream
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2.0
A cold, soft sweet dessert like ice cream made from milk with a slightly sour taste
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1.0
A sweet frozen dessert made from milk and cream with vanilla flavor
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1.0
A cold creamy dessert made with chocolate
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1.0
A cold sweet dessert made from milk and strawberries, often with small fruit pieces
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2.7
A sweet cold food made by freezing milk or fruit
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2.3
A cold sweet dessert like ice cream made with eggs and cream
A soft frozen dessert that comes from a machine, often in a cone
A cold creamy dessert with small pieces of chocolate
A bar of vanilla ice cream covered in chocolate
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Morphology
The compound directly combines 'ice' (frozen) + 'milk' (the dairy liquid), so the meaning 'a frozen milk-based dessert' is transparently derivable from the constituents. This noun–noun composition follows a regular, cross-linguistically common pattern, so a B1 learner who knows both words would likely infer the intended meaning.
Etymology
Ice milk comes from a simple picture: freezing milk into ice to make a cold treat. Because makers used mostly milk instead of cream, it felt lighter and had 'less fat', so the name came to mean a 'frozen dessert made mainly from milk'.