soft ice cream

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   dessert resembling ice cream but with a boiled custard base

   Synonymsfrozen custard

   Broaderfrozen dessert

Questions about soft ice cream

What does soft ice cream mean?

soft ice cream means "dessert resembling ice cream but with a boiled custard base".

What is another word for soft ice cream?

Close synonyms include frozen custard. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is soft ice cream a common word?

soft ice cream is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.