meringue
Syllables: me·ringue/məˈɹæŋ/US/məˈɹeɪ̯ŋ/
meringue noun: a mixture consisting of beaten egg whites and either sugar or other flavorings; it is often baked to brown the surface and may be used as a topping or in other ways, most often as a dessert.
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Noun
meringue (countable and uncountable, plural meringues)
- A mixture consisting of beaten egg whites and either sugar or other flavorings; it is often baked to brown the surface and may be used as a topping or in other ways, most often as a dessert.
- The key to a good baked Alaska is the meringue topping.
- A shell made of this mixture which serves as the receptacle for fruit, ice cream or sherbet.
- Shirley likes to have strawberry with her meringue.
- It had the same laxness in texture that all organic structures seem to have upon the moon; it tasted rather like a gauffre or a damp meringue, but in no way was it disagreeable.1900 December – 1901 August, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, chapter XIII, in The First Men in the Moon, London: George Newnes, […], published 1901, →OCLC, page 150
Verb
meringue (third-person singular simple present meringues, present participle meringuing, simple past and past participle meringued)
- To prepare as a meringue dish.
meringue meaning in Bengali, Malayalam, Tagalog and Arabic
meringue in Bengali
- mixture
- মেরিঙ্গু meriṅgu
meringue in Malayalam
- mixture
- മെറിംഗു meṟiṅgu
meringue in Tagalog
- mixture
- merengge
meringue in Arabic
- mixture
- مَرَنْغ maranḡ
More languagesFewer languages
- meringue in Indonesian
- kue busa
- meringue in Thai
- เมอแร็งก์ məə-rɛng
- meringue in Vietnamese
- bánh trứng đường
Examples of meringue in a sentence
- Please do not eat the meringue, as it is allocated for the dinner party tomorrow.
- To make meringue, you have to separate the white from the yolk.
- He swears by cream of tartar to make the meringues stiff.
Forms of meringue
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | meringues |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | meringues |
| present participle | meringuing |
| past participle | meringued |
| past | meringued |
Origin of meringue
Borrowed from French meringue. Historically, it was believed that meringue was invented in and named for the Swiss village of Meiringen, but the term is now thought to derive instead from Middle Dutch meringue (“light evening meal”), of unclear origin: * perhaps from Latin merenda (“light evening meal”), or * perhaps from Middle Dutch *meren (“to dip or soak bread”), from Old Dutch *meren, itself of unclear origin: ** perhaps from Proto-Germanic *marjaną (“to grind, pound”), from Proto-Indo-European *mer- (“to rub, pack”). ** perhaps from Proto-Germanic *marhin (“soup of bread and wine or water”), from Proto-Indo-European *mark-, *merk- (“wet”). Compare Middle Low German meringe (from mern (“to dip bread in wine”)), Middle High German merunge (from mëren (“to soak bread in wine or water for dinner”)), Old English merian (“to purify, cleanse, test”). Doublet of merengue.
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Questions about meringue
- What does meringue mean?
- Meringue means a mixture consisting of beaten egg whites and either sugar or other flavorings; it is often baked to brown the surface and may be used as a topping or in other ways, most often as a dessert.
- What is meringue in Bengali?
- Meringue in Bengali is মেরিঙ্গু (meriṅgu). See Meringue meaning in Bengali.
- What part of speech is meringue?
- Meringue can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce meringue?
- Meringue is pronounced /məˈɹæŋ/.
- What is the plural of meringue?
- The plural of meringue is meringues.
Words near meringue in the dictionary
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