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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
sundae
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a hot fudge sundae
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A sundae?-All right.-Hot fudge?-I guess.
▪ Mr. Boni's Restaurant T-bone steaks, giant burgers, pizzas and outrageous sundaes.
▪ She has a job frying hamburgers at Hooks Drugstore, where she is also learning to make sodas and sundaes.
▪ Thanks, Brice.-Thank you for the sundae, Mr Calder, I said.
▪ The chopped nuts on the sundae are the husband-and-wife team who present the show.
▪ You go get the sundae first.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
sundae

1897, American English, thought to be an alteration of Sunday, perhaps re-spelled in deference to religious feelings; but the reason for the name is uncertain; perhaps "ice cream left over from Sunday, on sale later." For a fuller account of the speculations, see H.L. Mencken, "The American Language," Supplement I (1945), pp.376-7.

Wiktionary
sundae

n. A dessert consisting of ice cream with any of various toppings added.

WordNet
sundae

n. ice cream served with a topping [syn: ice-cream sundae]

Wikipedia
Sundae

The sundae is a sweet ice cream dessert. It typically consists of one or more scoops of ice cream topped with sauce or syrup, and in some cases other toppings including sprinkles, whipped cream, peanuts, maraschino cherries, or other fruits (e.g., bananas and pineapple in a banana split.).

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the origin of the term sundae is obscure; however, it is generally accepted that the spelling "sundae" derives from the English word "Sunday".

Sundae (Korean food)

Sundae (, also romanised in anglicism as soondae) is a Korean dish made generally by boiling or steaming cow or pig's intestines that are stuffed with various ingredients. It is a kind of blood sausage and believed to have been eaten since long ago. The recipes related to sundae can be found in Joseon cookbooks published in 19th century such as " Gyuhap chongseo" and " Siuijeonseo".

Sundae can be made with seafood such as ojing-eo sundae (오징어 순대 squid sundae) and myeongtae sundae (명태 순대 Alaska pollock sundae).

The most common type of sundae is made of pig's intestines stuffed with cellophane noodles ( dangmyeon), barley, and pork blood, although some variants also contain perilla leaves, scallions (pa), fermented soybean paste ( doenjang), glutinous rice, kimchi, and soybean sprouts. It is a popular street food in North Korea and South Korea. In Seoul, there is a neighborhood called Sundae Town in Sillim-dong, which has many restaurants specializing in sundae.

Koreans usually eat sundae with tteokbokki sauce. Many restaurants have a menu item called "tteok-twi-sun"(떡튀순, which contains tteokbokki, fries and sundae).

Usage examples of "sundae".

The other man, happily toying with his sundae, mostly ignored his cigarillo, but as Shadow approached he picked it up, inhaled deeply, and blew two smoke rings-first one large one, then another, smaller one, which passed neatly through the first-and he grinned, as if he were astonishingly pleased with himself.

I should lay off those Snicker bars, those liverwurst sandwiches with gobs of mayonnaise and those Goddamned caramel sundaes.

Mom has a sundae, Dad a double-dip, Nora a split, and Lowery a cigarette.

These were replaced by, in rapidly accelerating order, wedges of fudge cake, linzer torte, falafel, three steaming bowls of chop suey, blacktop sundaes, and a dismembered, smoked turkey.

He was a small man, the kind of little old man who looked as if the passing of the years had shrunk him, eating an enormous, many-scooped ice-cream sundae, drinking a supersized mug of coffee.

He sat looking at plaster sundaes, his lower lip pendulous with thought.

The dainty little Briarcliff junior, whose mind was created only for aesthetic pleasures, downed an orange juice, steak and waffles, chocolate sundae, two glasses of milk, and a cup of coffee with two cinnamon buns.

I'm thirty-two years old, stand six feet two inches tall and weigh in around one-ninety, depending on how much chocolate fudge sundae I've been into recently.

The reality of her feelings for those bygone patrons (who, although she had forgotten it, had irritated her just as much) was fogged by nostalgia, and she looked up eagerly when the door opened, as if it might be a member of the class of '64 and his girl, ready for a chocolate fudge sundae with extra nuts.

He had told him what he could do with his chocolate nut sundaes and where he could stick his Cadburys Flakes, and what would happen if he didnt move his van to places far away.

He had told him what he could do with his chocolate nut sundaes and where he could stick his Cadbury’.

Abby filled the bowls with ice cream, poured on chocolate syrup, covered it all with whipped cream, then dropped a cherry on top of each sundae.

So our hot fudge sundae pops in with about thirty percent of the world's annual energy budget.

She was playful and full of laughter, she teased her children and hugged them, she ate a chocolate-marshmallow sundae, and she brushed and flossed afterward.

But I've got a better idea: how about a hot fudge sundae with oodles of hot fudge sauce, whipped cream, nuts, and a maraschino cherry?