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KUST-uh-d/ˈkʌstəd/

Custard is a sweet yellow sauce of milk and eggs or powder, poured over puddings (often uncountable). Ice cream is frozen; cream is not cooked or yellow in the same way. Collocation: hot custard; a jug of custard; apple pie and custard. A custard tart is a baked pastry — countable there.

Meaning

A sweet yellow sauce made with milk and eggs or powder, eaten with pudding (often uncountable).

Examples

• “Pour hot custard over the apple crumble.”
• “School dinners in the UK often mean sponge and custard.”
• “Stir the custard so it does not go lumpy on the hob.”

Good to know

custard (often uncountable). Contrast: cream / ice cream. hot custard; pudding and custard.

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