| Main Entry: | ice cream |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | frozen dessert |
Synonyms: |
frozen yogurt, gelato, ice, ice milk, sherbet, sorbet |
| Notes: | ice cream is an alteration of iced cream, 'cream cooled by means of ice,' but the 'd' was dropped around 1744; ice milk is similar to it but contains less butterfat |
| Main Entry: | dessert |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sweet treat |
Synonyms: |
cake, candy, confection, cookie, frozen dessert, frozen treat, fruit, ice cream, last course, pastry, pie, pudding, sweet, sweet course, tart |
| Notes: | that impoverished stretch of sand called a desert can only afford one 's'; that rich gooey extra thing at the end of the meal called a dessert indulges in two of them |