custard

See also: Custard

English

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custard

Wikipedia

Etymology

Alteration of croustade.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkʌs.təd/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkʌs.tɚd/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ʌstə(ɹ)d
• Hyphenation: cus‧tard

Noun

custard (countable and uncountable, plural custards)

1. A type of sauce made from milk and eggs (and usually sugar, and sometimes vanilla or other flavourings) and thickened by heat, served hot poured over desserts, as a filling for some pies and cakes, or cold and solidified; also used as a base for some savoury dishes, such as quiches, or eaten as a stand-alone dessert; egg custard.
2. (by extension) A similar sauce made from milk and cornflour or custard powder (and usually sugar, and sometimes vanilla or other flavourings) and thickened by heat.

Holonyms

• trifle

Derived terms

• African custard apple
• all over the place like a mad woman's custard
• boiled custard
• confectioner's custard
• cowardy custard
• cup custard
• custard apple
• custard arm
• custard brains
• custard cannon
• custard Christian
• custard-chucker
• custard coffin
• custard cream
• custard cup
• custard-cups
• custard glass
• custard launcher
• custardlike
• custard peach
• custard-pie
• custard pie
• custard powder
• custard slice
• custard squash
• custard tart
• custard wind
• custardy
• egg custard
• egg custard tart
• frozen custard
• fruit custard
• love custard
• turn to custard

Translations

sauce

Afrikaans: vla Arabic: كَاسْتَرْد m (kāstard) Assamese: কাষ্টাৰ (kastar) Belarusian: заварны́ крэм m (zavarný krem) Bulgarian: крем караме́л m (krem karamél) Catalan: crema (ca) f Chinese: Cantonese: 吉士 (gat1 si6-2), 吉士醬 / 吉士酱 (gat1 si6-2 zoeng3) (custard sauce), 奶黃 / 奶黄 (naai5 wong4) (thick egg custard filling in Chinese steamed buns) Mandarin: 卡士達 / 卡士达 (kǎshìdá), 吉士 (zh) (jíshì), 奶油凍 / 奶油冻 (nǎiyóudòng), 乳蛋糕 (rǔdàngāo), 奶黃 / 奶黄 (nǎihuáng), 蛋羹 (dàngēng), 軟凍 / 软冻 (ruǎndòng), 牛奶沙司 (niúnǎi shāsī), 蛋漿 / 蛋浆 (zh) (dànjiāng), 蛋奶凍 / 蛋奶冻 (dànnǎidòng) Czech: pudink (cs) m Esperanto: kremaĵo, kustardo Finnish: maitokiisseli, vanukas (fi) French: crème anglaise (fr) f, crème pâtissière (fr) f, custard (fr) m Galician: crema (gl) f German: (when poured) Vanillesoße (de) f (usually does but need not contain vanilla); (when thick) Pudding (de) m, Creme (de) f, Puddingcreme f, Eiercreme f Hebrew: רַפְרֶפֶת (he) f (rafréfet), חֲבִיצָה (he) f (ḥavitzá) Hungarian: sodó (hu) Indonesian: kustar Irish: custard m Italian: crema pasticcera (it) f Japanese: カスタード (ja) (kasutādo) Korean: 커스터드 (keoseuteodeu) Latvian: olu krēms Malay: kastard Maori: kahitete, kātete Norwegian: Bokmål: vaniljesaus m Nynorsk: vaniljesaus m Persian: کاستارد (kâstârd), شیرخاگین (fa) (šir-xâgin) Polish: custard (pl) m, sos angielski m Portuguese: creme inglês m Romanian: cremă (ro) f Russian: заварно́й крем (ru) m (zavarnój krem), ка́стард m (kástard) Spanish: crema pastelera (es) f, natilla Swedish: vaniljkräm (sv) c, vaniljsås (sv) c Ukrainian: заварни́й крем m (zavarnýj krem) Vietnamese: sữa trứng, kem sữa trứng, món sữa trứng Welsh: cwstard m Yiddish: קאָסטאַרד (kostard)

See also

• bavarois
• cream puff
• crème brûlée
• crème caramel
• custard winds
• floating island
• panna cotta, pannacotta
• trifle
• vanilla slice
• vla
• zabaglione

Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from English.

Noun

custard m (genitive singular custaird, nominative plural custaird)

1. custard

Declension

Declension of custard (first declension)

bare forms singular plural nominative custard custaird vocative a chustaird a chustarda genitive custaird custard dative custard custaird forms with the definite article singular plural nominative an custard na custaird genitive an chustaird na gcustard dative leis an gcustard don chustard leis na custaird

Derived terms

• custardúll, úll custaird (“custard apple”)
• flan custaird, toirtín custaird (“egg custard”)
• púdar custaird (“custard powder”)
• toirtín custaird (“custard tart”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of custard

radical	lenition	eclipsis
custard	chustard	gcustard

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “custard”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959), “custard”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “custard”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025