egg cream

English

Etymology

Various speculative theories, since the drink contains neither eggs nor cream. See Egg cream in Wikipedia.

Noun

egg cream (countable and uncountable, plural egg creams)

(US, New York) A drink consisting of milk and soda water with vanilla or chocolate syrup.

Translations

beverage

Yiddish: עג־קרים m (eg-krim)

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