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Eskimo Pie

Eskimo Pie proper noun: a brand of chocolate covered vanilla ice cream on a stick.

Proper noun

Eskimo Pie (plural Eskimo Pies)

  1. (trademark) A brand of chocolate covered vanilla ice cream on a stick.

Noun capitalized: Eskimo pie

Eskimo pie (plural Eskimo pies)

  1. A bar of ice cream covered in chocolate, usually on a stick.
    • In the course of Counselor Halley's interrogations of Frank Costello this morning, the name of Eskimo pie was identified as one of the products made by Dainties Products Corp. […] Mr. Halley, I am sure, used the trademark name Eskimo pie in error simply meaning a chocolate-covered ice-cream product.1950, United States Senate, Eighty-first Congress, Investigation of organized crime in interstate commerce, volume 7, page 1718
    • Velvety-smooth vanilla ice cream – made from fresh dairy cream – coated with a special blend of mouth-watering imported chocolate. That’s Eskimo Pie, the original ice cream bar.1958 August 4, “Eskimo Pie [advertisement]”, in LIFE, page 59
    Synonyms:
    choc ice

Synonyms of Eskimo Pie

Forms of Eskimo Pie

Proper noun
pluralEskimo Pies
alternative formEskimo pie
Noun
pluralEskimo pies

Origin of Eskimo Pie

Originally a trademark of the Eskimo Pie Corporation for a product patented in 1922, later licensed to other companies or used as a genericized trademark.

Questions about Eskimo Pie

What does Eskimo Pie mean?
Eskimo Pie means a brand of chocolate covered vanilla ice cream on a stick.
What part of speech is Eskimo Pie?
Eskimo Pie can be a proper noun or a noun.

Words near Eskimo Pie in the dictionary

  1. Eskimo curlew
  2. Eskimo ice cream
  3. Eskimo kiss
  4. Eskimo kisses
  5. Eskimo Nebula
  6. Eskimo Pie
  7. Eskimo Pies
  8. Eskimo Point
  9. Eskimo potato
  10. Eskimo potatoes
  11. Eskimo roll

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Eskimo Pie (page history and authors); Eskimo pie (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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