ICING
What does "ICING" mean?
A sweet sugary coating spread or piped onto cakes and pastries; frosting.
Meanings
- A sweet glaze or coating, usually of sugar, used to decorate baked goods. She swirled pink icing across the top of the cupcakes.
- In ice hockey, an infraction where a player shoots the puck across two red lines without it being touched. The linesman blew the whistle and called icing. technical
- An added benefit that makes a good thing even better. Winning was great; the trophy was just icing on the cake. figurative
Word origin
From the verb 'to ice' (to cover with ice or a frozen-looking coating), from Old English 'is' (ice), plus '-ing'; the cake sense compares the smooth white sugar to a sheet of ice.
Remember it
ICING is what makes a cake look frosted over like ICE - same root, sweeter result.
A little poem
Smooth white over crumb,
the cake pretends it is snow -
the knife leaves a wake.
haiku
Wordplay
- The hockey player wanted to be a baker, but every shot he took got called icing.
What it teaches
Icing is the part everyone praises, but no one was ever nourished by the coating alone - build the cake first.
Quick facts
What does ICING mean?
A sweet sugary coating spread or piped onto cakes and pastries; frosting.
Is ICING a valid word?
Yes — ICING is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is ICING?
ICING has 5 letters and 2 syllables.
Where does ICING come from?
From the verb 'to ice' (to cover with ice or a frozen-looking coating), from Old English 'is' (ice), plus '-ing'; the cake sense compares the smooth white sugar to a sheet of ice.
What can ICING teach us?
Icing is the part everyone praises, but no one was ever nourished by the coating alone - build the cake first.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.