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ˌice-ˈcream
A compound of flavoured and sweetened cream or custard, congealed by being stirred or revolved in a vessel surrounded by a freezing mixture. (Earlier term, iced cream.)
1744in Pennsylvania Mag. Hist. & Biogr. (1877) I. 126 Among the rarities..was some fine ice cream, which, with the strawberries and milk, eat most deliciously. 1751H. Glasse Art of Cookery (ed. 4) 333 (heading) To make Ice Cream..set it [sc. the cream] into the larger Bason. Fill it with Ice, and a Handful of Salt. 1769Mrs. Raffald Eng. Housekpr. (1778) 249 To make Ice Cream. 1789Mrs. Piozzi Journ. France I. 181 The ice-creams melt with the room's excessive heat. 1841Emerson Lect., Man the Reformer Wks. (Bohn) II. 242 We dare not trust our wit for making our house pleasant to our friend, and so we buy ice-creams. 1957Min. Agric. Food Standards Comm. Rep. Ice Cream (H.M.S.O.) 4 The bulk of ice cream now produced in this country is made from margarine and other non-milk fats... We recommend that special provision should be made to reserve the description ‘dairy ice cream’ ..for ice cream in which the fat content is wholly milk fat.
attrib.1821National Advocate (New York) 3 Aug. 2/2 Among the number of ice cream gardens in this city, there was none in which the sable race could find admission and refreshment. 1844J. Cowell 30 Yrs. among Players II. iii. 64/2 With the ice-cream profits, he purchased bricks and mortar, and built the Chatham Theatre. 1851A. O. Hall Manhattaner 46 How the ice cream saloons resound with clattering spoons. 1854Rep. Trans. Pennsylvania State Agric. Soc. 363 Three ice cream freezers. 1873J. H. Beadle Undevel. West xxviii. 623 Two months vigorous courting will cost more than that—particularly in the ice-cream season. 1878N. A. Donnelley Lakeside Cook Bk. 30/2 Ice Cream Cake. 1880E. W. Wilcox Buckeye Cookery & Pract. Housek. 83 Ice-cream cake... Make good sponge-cake... Fill with ice-cream just before serving. 1881C. C. Harrison Woman's Handiwork iii. 223 Finger-bowls and ice-cream plates were ruby Bohemian glass. 1884Milnor (Dakota) Teller 27 June, An ice cream parlor where the dudes and dudines sip..congealed milk and sugar. 1886Mobile (Alabama) Daily Reg. 23 Apr. 2/3 (Advt.), Drink Ice Cream Soda. 1887A. A. Hayes Jesuit's Ring 56 The days of bright summer, and lawn tennis..and ice-cream soda. 1889A. T. Pask Eyes Thames 123 Three Italian ice-cream men, with their heavy barrows. 1893Critic (U.S.) 8 Apr. 226/1 Our national beverage ‘ice-cream soda’. 1904Proc. R. Soc. LXXIII. 504 Using the modified ice-cream mixer described by Moody. 1905Ice-cream cake [see angel-cake]. 1909Sat. Even. Post 15 May 11/2 The remainder is about equally divided among popcorn, ice cream cones, and candy. 1934Archit. Rev. LXXVI. 159/1 (caption) 40-gallon ice-cream fountain. 1947Ibid. CI. 212/1 Across the road, though, competition has set in, not only from the tricycle ice-vendors but from the Ice Cream Parlours. 1950G. Greene Third Man ii. 16 The American zone, which you couldn't mistake because of the ice-cream parlours in every street. 1961E. Wilson in R. Weaver Canad. Short Stories (1968) 2nd Ser. 14 How about an ice-cream cone? 1961C. Willock Death in Covert iii. 73 The liveried servants held flambeaux like ice-cream cornets. 1966J. Cleary High Commissioner i. 19 An ice-cream van went slowly by, its bell tinkling. a1966M. Allingham Cargo of Eagles (1968) xv. 162 An ice cream tricycle was already doing good business. 1968P. Jennings Living Village 204 The dreadful hoarse tintinnabulations, as though a giant were banging a dulcimer, which herald the urban ice cream van. 1972Guardian 2 Sept. 9/2 He fetched his mother an ice-cream cornet.
Hence ice-ˈcreamer, an (Italian) ice-cream vendor; so (derogatory) an Italian.
1901E. W. Hornung Black Mask 110 He had every low-down Neapolitan ice-creamer on my tracks. 1940N. Mitford Pigeon Pie iii. 41, I remembered that there are Chinks and Japs and Fuzzy Wuzzies and Ice Creamers and Dagos, and so on. 1949L. P. Hartley Boat i. 3 Italians are not people according to our ideas... Ice-creamers, some call them, but it's too polite for them.
▸ ice cream cone n. orig. N. Amer. a wafer or pastry in the shape of a cone (with either a pointed or a flattened tip), used as a portable, edible vessel for serving ice cream; (also) a serving of ice cream in this; cf. cornet n.1 2c.
1905Manitoba Morning Free Press 10 July 13/3 (advt.) Wanted—Agents to operate and sell *ice cream cone ovens and make a small fortune this summer. 1954V. Cronin Golden Honeycomb xxii. 242 The little boy..holds a huge strawberry ice-cream cone. 2005Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 30 June 23 The manufacture of confectionery products,..teacakes, ice cream cones and wafers.
▸ ice cream headache n. a momentary but intense pain in the head caused by exposure to cold temperatures, typically when consuming very cold food or drink.
1937R. Timbres Jrnl. 31 Jan. in H. Timbres & R. Timbres We didn't ask Utopia (1939) 225 Your nose and fingertips get quite numb, too [in extremely cold weather], and if you don't keep rubbing your forehead, you get what we used to call ‘an *ice cream headache’. 1964Washington Post 5 Apr. e7/3 He's trying to find out the processes involved in the so-called ice cream headache. 2006Sentinel (Stoke-on-Trent) (Nexis) 20 Aug. 35 A British Medical Journal study found eating cold foods quickly doubled the likelihood of ice-cream headache.
▸ ice cream sandwich n. chiefly N. Amer. a serving of ice cream pressed between two wafers or biscuits so that it may be held in the hands when eaten.
1900Washington Post 25 July 4/8 The *ice cream sandwich man, who sells quarter inch layers of alleged ice cream between tiny slabs of water wafers, did a big business during the hot spell. 2006Commerc. Appeal (Memphis, Tennessee) (Nexis) 21 Oct. 7 There will be free hotdogs, chips and ice cream sandwiches. |