icing

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaɪsɪŋ/

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• Rhymes: -aɪsɪŋ
• Rhymes: -ɪŋ

Etymology 1

Gerund of the verb to ice.

Chocolate cupcakes with raspberry buttercream icing.

Noun

icing (countable and uncountable, plural icings)

1. (cooking) A sweet, often creamy and thick glaze made primarily of sugar, often enriched with ingredients like butter, egg whites, or flavorings, typically used for baked goods.

   Synonym: frosting (US)

   • 1917, Janet McKenzie Hill, Cakes, Pastry and Dessert Dishes, page 92:

     THICK FLUFFY ICING
     At the present time there is a demand for very light fluffy icing that may be piled high on a cake. For beating many of the icings of this variety an electric beater is used, and the syrup is added very slowly.

2. (ice hockey) A minor violation of ice hockey rules, occurring when a player shoots the puck from his/her side of the red line so that it crosses the goal line on the opponent's side. A team playing short-handed is not penalized for this.
3. The process of forming a layer of ice on a surface.
4. (aviation, meteorology) Conditions conducive to the formation of ice on aircraft surfaces.

   The Cessna pilots reported that moderate icing was present between 13,000 and 4,000 feet in the cloud layers.

Usage notes

• In general American use, the words icing and frosting are synonymous, but bakers may distinguish frosting as thicker and fluffier while icing is thinner and glossier like a glaze. In British English, the word frosting is not used.

Derived terms

• anti-icing
• butter icing
• flood icing
• fondant icing
• icing on the cake
• icing sugar
• royal icing
• water icing

 

Descendants

• → Swedish: icing

Translations

sweet glaze used for baked goods

• Arabic: تَغْطِيَة سُكَّر f (taḡṭiya sukkar)
• Bulgarian: глазура (bg) f (glazura)
• Catalan: glaça (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 糖衣 (tong⁴ ji¹)

  Mandarin: 糖霜 (zh) (táng shuāng)

• Danish: glasur (da)
• Esperanto: glaceo
• Finnish: kuorrutus (fi), kuorrute
• French: glaçage (fr) m
• German: Zuckerguss (de) m, Glasur (de) f
• Greek: γλάσο (el) n (gláso)
• Italian: glassa (it) f, glassatura f, brillantatura f, ghiaccia (it) f
• Japanese: アイシング (aishingu)
• Kazakh: зертас (zertas)
• Maori: pani reka
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: glasur m

  Nynorsk: glasur m

• Plautdietsch: Eisinj f
• Polish: lukier (pl) m
• Portuguese: glacê (pt) m, glace (pt) f
• Romanian: glazură (ro) f (de zahăr)
• Russian: глазу́рь (ru) f (glazúrʹ)
• Spanish: glaseado (es) m, alcorza (es) f, lustre (es) m (Costa Rica)
• Swedish: glasyr (sv)

minor violation of ice hockey rules

• Bulgarian: айсинг m (ajsing)
• Catalan: refús prohibit (ca) m
• Finnish: pitkä kiekko (fi)
• Swedish: icing (sv) c

process of forming a layer of ice

• Bulgarian: обледеняване n (obledenjavane)
• Finnish: jäädytys (fi), jäädyttäminen (fi)
• German: Vereisung f
• Polish: obladzanie n
• Romanian: acoperire cu gheață f
• Russian: обледене́ние (ru) n (obledenénije)

Etymology 2

From the verb to ice.

Verb

icing

1. present participle and gerund of ice

Swedish

Etymology

From English icing.

Noun

icing c

1. (sports) icing; a minor violation of rules in hockey

Declension

Declension of icing
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	icing	icingen	icingar	icingarna
Genitive	icings	icingens	icingars	icingarnas

Further reading

• icing in Svensk ordbok.