ババヘラ

noun

ice cream cone popular in Akita Prefecture

A regional specialty: soft-serve ice cream shaped like a flower, sold by elderly women (often called 'baba') using a spatula (hera). The name is a compound of 婆 (baba, old woman) and 箆 (hera, spatula).

• 秋あき田たの夏なつ祭まつりでババヘラを買かった。

  I bought a babahera ice cream at a summer festival in Akita.

• ババヘラは花はなの形かたちをしたソフトクリームだ。

  Babahera is a soft-serve ice cream shaped like a flower.