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custard(1) (iou)



custard noun1. Also (earlier) crustade, crustarde. LME.
[from Old French crouste CRUST noun: see -ADE. Forms without -r- also LME.]
Orig., a kind of open pie containing meat or fruit covered with broth or milk, thickened with eggs, sweetened, and spiced. Now, a sauce made of heated sweetened milk with cornflour or egg, etc.; (an) egg-custard.
Comb.: custard-apple the fruit of any of several trees of the genus Annona (family Annonaceae), characterized by sweet yellow pulp, esp. the bullock's heart, A. reticulata, and sweetsop, A. squamosa; (also custard-apple tree) a tree bearing such a fruit; custard marrow a variety of summer squash, Cucurbita pepo var. melopepo, having round flattened fruits scalloped at the edges; also called simlin; custard-pie noun & adjective (a) noun an open pie with a filling of cold thick custard; fig. slapstick comedy (in which such pies are commonly used as missiles); (b) adjective slapstick; custard powder a preparation of cornflour etc. for making custard.
custardy adjective L19.