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Definition: Custard |
CustardNoun1. Sweetened mixture of milk and eggs baked or boiled or frozen. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "custard" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Dream Interpretation | For a married woman to dream of making or eating custard, indicates she will be called upon to entertain an unexpected guest. A young woman will meet a stranger who will in time become a warm friend. If the custard has a sickening sweet taste, or is insipid, nothing but sorrow will intervene where you had expected a pleasant experience. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Literature | Custard A slap on the hand with a ferula. The word should be custid, unless a play is meant. (Latin, custis, a club or stick.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Personal Care & Hotels | Is a mixture of beaten eggs and mild variously sweetened and flavoured and cooked either over hot water or baked in an oven. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Custard is a sweet dessert made from a combination of milk or cream, egg yolks, cornflour, sugar and flavourings such as vanilla essence. Depending on how much thickener is added, custard may vary in consistency from a thin pouring sauce or Crème Anglaise, to a thick blancmange like that used for vanilla slice.Custard is an important part of dessert recipes originating in many countries including England, France, Italy and Australia. Recipes involving custard include:
Most custard is cooked in a double boiler or heated very gently on the stove in a saucepan, but custard can also be steamed or baked in the oven in a steam bath or bain-marie.
- English trifle
- Custard tarts
- Creme caramel
- Danish pastry
- Vanilla slice.
- Zabaglione
- Floating islands
- Crème brûlée
- Frozen custard
- Ice cream
Not all custards are sweet. The filling for a traditional quiche is made from a savoury custard incorporating cheese for flavouring.
See Wikipedia Cookbook for recipes
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Custard."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Cold | Cold as a stone, cold as marble, cold as lead, cold as iron, cold as a frog, cold as charity, cold as Christmas; cool as a cucumber, cool as custard. |
Excitability | Easy-going, peaceful, placid, calm; quiet as a mouse; tranquil, serene; cool as a cucumber, cool as a custard; undemonstrative. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Custard |
| English words defined with "custard": Anonaceous ♦ Bavarian cream, Boston cream pie ♦ Charlotte, Charlotte Russe, cherimolla, cherimoya, Cherimoyer, Chou, cream puff, Creamcake, creme anglais, creme brulee, creme caramel, Custard coffin, custard pie ♦ Dowset ♦ flan, Flawn, Floating island, flummery, frozen custard, frozen pudding, fruit custard ♦ guanabana ♦ ice cream, ilama ♦ lemon meringue pie ♦ Napoleon ♦ papaw, pawpaw, pond apple ♦ Quiche ♦ soft ice cream, soursop, Sweet-sop ♦ tart, trifle. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "custard": cashier, fast foods restaurant, confectioner's custard, COOK, RAILROAD, CUSTARD CAP ♦ FAST-FOODS WORKER ♦ pastry cream. (references) |
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Screenplays | Cowardy Cowardy Custard! (The Others; writing credit: Alejandro Amenábar) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Roobarb and Custard (1974) Custard Pies (1929) | |
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 | Emmy Banys, welder-trainee at General Motors' Eastern Aircraft Division in Linden, New Jersey, holds the forty-seven-cent Victory lunch which is served daily in the plant cafeteria. Including a small steak, two vegetables, salad, enriched breads, custard. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Mrs. Roosevelt is served a Victory lunch on her visit to General Motors' Eastern Aircraft Division in Linden, New Jersey. Consisting of a small steak, two vegetables, salad, enriched breads, custard and a glass of milk, this highly nutritious lunch is pro. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "The Green Man" by Matt Williams Commentary: "The MASSIVE Green Man sculpture at Birmingham's Custard Factory. You can see two tiny folks by his feet." |
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Emma | Austen, Jane | I do not advise the custard. |
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Health | A tart lemon custard might taste good and will also provide needed protein and calories. (references) | |
Injections are generally given by physicians or nurses, but pills may be given at home. Taking chemotherapy pills can sometimes be a problem with younger children, but the tablets can be broken into smaller pieces for swallowing or powdered and mixed with apple sauce, jam, or custard. (references) | ||
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| "Custard" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Custard" is used about 295 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 295 | 16,921 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "custard" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Custard | Last name | 1,000 | 17,810 |
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Expressions using "custard": caramel custard ♦ confectioner's custard ♦ cool as a custard ♦ cool as custard ♦ Custard apple ♦ custard apple tree ♦ Custard coffin ♦ custard filled pastry ♦ custard pie ♦ custard powder ♦ custard sauce ♦ frozen custard ♦ fruit custard ♦ prickly custard apple ♦ running custard. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "custard": custard-apple, custard-apple family, custard-covered, custard-free, custard-pie, custard-skin. | |
Ending with "custard": Goss-custard. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "custard"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | aalbessievla (currant, currant custard). (various references) | |
Albanian | krem karamel (fudge). (various references) | |
Arabic | كريم (benign, big hearted, cream, decent, generous, gentle, good, good hearted, good natured, gracious, high minded, honorable, honourable, kind, kindly, lavish, liberal, noble, noble-minded, obliging, open handed, precious, respectable, valuable, warm-hearted), مزيج من البيض والحليب. (various references) | |
Asturian | natilles. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | яйчен крем. (various references) | |
Cebuano | leche plan. (various references) | |
Chinese | 乳蛋糕. (various references) | |
Czech | vanilkový krém, vajeèný krém, pudink (Duff, pudding). (various references) | |
Danish | sukkeræble (caneel-apple, custard apple, sugar apple, sweet sop), sød annona (caneel-apple, custard apple, sugar apple, sweet sop), oksehjerte (bullocks heart, cor bovinum, custard apple, hypertrophied heart). (various references) | |
Dutch | roomappel (bullocks heart, custard apple), kaneelappel (caneel-apple, custard apple, sugar apple, sweet sop, sweetsop), flesappel (bullocks heart, custard apple, sour sop), boeah nona (bullocks heart, custard apple), aalbessenvla (currant custard). (various references) | |
Esperanto | ribokustardo (currant custard), ribokremaĵo (currant custard). (various references) | |
Faeroese | budingur (pudding). (various references) | |
Farsi | یکجورشیرینی یافرنی . (various references) | |
French | crème. (various references) | |
Frisian | kloppe aaiwyt. (various references) | |
German | Eierkrem. (various references) | |
Greek | κρέμα (cream), γαλακτόπητα. (various references) | |
Hebrew | קציפה (cream, fluff, mousse, whipped cream), חביצה (junket, pudding), רפרפת ביצים, רפרפת (blancmange). (various references) | |
Hungarian | tejsodó, sodó. (various references) | |
Indonesian | semacam podeng. (various references) | |
Italian | crema pasticciera. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 茶碗蒸し (savoury egg custard), カシミア糸 (cascade, cashew nuts, cashmere, cashmere yarn, casino, casket, castanets, caster, casual, casual look, casual water, casual wear, custard pudding, custom, custom IC, customize, customized car, customized communication, customizer, custom-made, customs). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | カスタードプリン (custard pudding), ちゃわんむし (savoury egg custard). (various references) | |
Macedonian | fil. (various references) | |
Manx | oohaghan, custart, aunlyn buigh. (various references) | |
Maya | oop (custard apple). (various references) | |
Norwegian | vaniljesaus. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ustardcay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | flan. (various references) | |
Portuguese Brazilian | flan. (various references) | |
Provencal | crema anglesa. (various references) | |
Romanian | cremã fãcutã din ouã şi lapte. (various references) | |
Russian | сладкий крем, крем (cream), заварной крем. (various references) | |
Samoan | sasalapa. (various references) | |
Scottish | breachdan. (various references) | |
Sepedi | khastate. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | krem od vanile. (various references) | |
Shona | muroro (wild custard apple tree). (various references) | |
Spanish | flan (cream, creme caramel). (various references) | |
Swedish | tjock vaniljsås. (various references) | |
Turkish | vanilyalı sos (running custard), krema (cream). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | кастард, заварний крем. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | món sữa trứng. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "custard": custards, custardy. (additional references) | |
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"Custard" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Cotthard, Coultard, cuester, Quistgard. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "custard" (pronounced ku"sterd) |
| 5 | -u" s t er d | bustard, clustered, flustered, mustard, mustered. |
| 4 | -s t er d | administered, bastard, blistered, bolstered, cloistered, festered, filibustered, fostered, mastered, pestered, plastered, registered, sequestered, unregistered, upholstered. |
| 3 | -t er d | altered, bantered, bartered, battered, bettered, buttered, catered, centered, chartered, cluttered, countered, cratered, lettered, littered, doctored, embittered, encountered, entered, factored, faltered, fettered, filtered, flattered, fluttered, frittered, glittered, guttered, headquartered, martyred, mattered, mentored, metered, monitored, muttered, neutered, pattered, petard, petered, reentered, scattered, shattered, sheltered, shuttered, slaughtered, spattered, splattered, splintered, sputtered, tattered, teetered, tutored, unaltered, unchartered, uncluttered, unfettered, unfiltered, uttered, watered, wintered. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-r-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: ducats. | |
-2 letters: adust, arcus, cards, carts, cruds, crust, curds, curst, darts, dauts, drats, ducat, ducts, duras, durst, scart, scaur, scuta, sutra, turds. | |
-3 letters: acts, arcs, arts, cads, card, cars, cart, cast, cats, crud, crus, cuds, curd, curs, curt, cuts, dart, daut, drat, duct, dura, dust, rads, rats, rust, ruts, sard, scad, scar, scat. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-d-r-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: custards, custardy, traduces. | |
+2 letters: abductors, adductors, aeroducts, croustade, dumpcarts, educators, reductase, traducers, transduce, underacts. | |
+3 letters: abductores, coadjutors, coastguard, coruscated, courtyards, crassitude, croustades, quadratics, reductants, reductases, reeducates, rusticated, soundtrack, subcordate, subtracted, transduced, transducer, transduces, truckloads, undercoats. | |
+4 letters: catadromous, coastguards, cotransduce, crassitudes, disturbance, duplicators, edulcorates, elucidators, judicatures, soundtracks, sugarcoated, transducers, transducing, uncastrated, underreacts. | |
+5 letters: adjudicators, biquadratics, candidatures, coadjutrices, conquistador, cotransduced, cotransduces, countermands, counterraids, disturbances, judicatories, overeducates, proctodaeums, quarterdecks, reduplicates, reeducations, resuscitated, thunderclaps, traducements, transductant, transduction, undistracted, urochordates. | |
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