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# custard

«custard» in Mova's school dictionary: **A sweet yellow sauce made from milk, eggs or custard…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (custard, uncountable; a custard, custards)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (UK, Australia, NZ, Ireland) A sweet yellow sauce made from milk, eggs or custard powder and sugar, poured over puddings. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/custard/#m1)

2) A soft, set dessert of milk and eggs, often baked (egg custard, a custard tart). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/custard/#m2)

3) (US) Frozen custard, a kind of ice cream. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/custard/#m3)

4) (UK informal) A cowardly custard is a person who is easily frightened and unwilling to face danger. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/custard/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life and food lessons: apple crumble and custard, custard tarts. In science: custard thickens when heated (proteins in eggs set; cornflour swells). Custard made from cornflour and water acts strangely (oobleck): solid if you hit it, liquid if you go slow.

### examples

- We had apple crumble with custard. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/custard/#x1)
- The custard was hot and sweet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/custard/#x2)
- Gran made egg custard tarts. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/custard/#x3)
- Custard thickens as it heats. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/custard/#x4)
- Cornflour and water make a non-Newtonian «custard» you can run on. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/custard/#x5)
- I spilled custard down my jumper. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/custard/#x6)
- “So are you a cowardly custard.” [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/custard/#x7)

### note

Uncountable as the sauce. Custard pie is used in comedy to throw in someone's face. Do not confuse with «mustard» (yellow, spicy).

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «custard» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/custard/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.