cream
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 9
- Words With Friends
- 11
- Letters
- 5
Definition of cream
22 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
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(countable, uncountable)The butterfat or milkfat part of milk which rises to the top; this part when separated from the remainder.
“Take 100 ml of cream and 50 grams of sugar…”
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noun
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(countable, uncountable)The butterfat or milkfat part of milk which rises to the top; this part when separated from the remainder.
“Take 100 ml of cream and 50 grams of sugar…”
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(US, countable, uncountable)The butterfat or milkfat part of milk which rises to the top; this part when separated from the remainder.
“You may have noticed that any time that filling is mentioned on Oreo packaging, it's called "creme." This is no typo. Technically, the creamy filling inside an Oreo is not cream at all: The recipe used actually contains no dairy; as such, the FDA prohibits Nabisco from labeling the product as "cream."”
- (UK, countable, uncountable)The butterfat or milkfat part of milk which rises to the top; this part when separated from the remainder.
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(countable, uncountable)The butterfat or milkfat part of milk which rises to the top; this part when separated from the remainder.
“I take my coffee with two cream and three sugar.”
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(countable, uncountable)A yellowish white color; the color of cream.
“Hundreds of examples remain, still following the same general pattern—maroon, green or chocolate brown, for example, from ground to waist level, then a stale Cheddar cheese shade of cream above.”
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(countable, informal, uncountable)Frosting, custard, creamer, or another substance similar to the oily part of milk or to whipped cream.
“Originally the cream filling in Oreo cookies was made with pork lard.”
- (countable, uncountable)A dish prepared through creaming, particularly cream of
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(countable, figuratively, uncountable)The best part of something.
“the cream of the crop”
“the cream of a collection of books or pictures”
“Welcome, O flower and cream of Knights-errant.”
““But the cream of it was," said Norman, pressing a large tortoiseshell-rimmed monocle into his eye, “you don't mind me telling this, Face, do you?””
“[…] he can assure the assembled Deans that all this is true, and that the Academy has presently in residence no fewer than a third of the continent’s top thirty juniors, in age brackets all across the board, and that I here, who go by ‘Hal,’ usually, am ‘right up there among the very cream.’”
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(countable, uncountable)A viscous aqueous oil or fat emulsion with a medicament added, used to apply that medicament to the skin. (compare with ointment)
“You look really sunburnt; you should apply some cream.”
“In vain she tries her paste and creams, / To smooth her skin or hide its seams.”
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(countable, slang, uncountable, vulgar)Semen.
“2001, Darwin Porter, Hollywood’s Silent Closet: The Lusty Saga of America’s First Star F*#%er!! (novel), Blood Moon Productions, Ltd., →ISBN, page 155, He rode me for ten—or was it fifteen?—minutes before one final fuckthrust that filled me completely with his cream.”
“He tucked his cock into his pants before rubbing his cream into her breasts in slow, teasing strokes.”
“When he did come, he spurted his cream all over the front of Rosalee’s T-shirt and neck.”
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(countable, obsolete, uncountable)The chrism or consecrated oil used in anointing ceremonies.
“there shall never harlot have happe, by the helpe of Oure Lord, to kylle a crowned Kynge that with Creyme is anoynted.”
adj
- (not-comparable)Cream-coloured; having a yellowish white colour.
verb
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(transitive)To puree, to blend with a liquifying process.
“Cream the vegetables with the olive oil, flour, salt and water mixture.”
- (transitive)To turn a yellowish white color; to give something the color of cream.
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(slang, transitive)To obliterate, to defeat decisively.
“We creamed the opposing team!”
“First up, the Hungarian election, where Prime Minister Viktor Orban and his Fidesz Party got absolutely creamed.”
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(intransitive, slang, vulgar)To ejaculate (used of either gender).
“Danny Zuko: You are supreme / The chicks’ll cream / For grease lightning.”
- (slang, transitive, vulgar)To ejaculate in (clothing or a bodily orifice).
- (transitive)To rub, stir, or beat (butter) into a light creamy consistency.
- (transitive)To skim, or take off by skimming, as cream.
- (figuratively, transitive)To take off the best or choicest part of.
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(transitive)To furnish with, or as if with, cream.
“Please cream these two coffees and leave the others black.”
“creaming the fragrant cups”
- (intransitive)To gather or form cream.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Middle English creime, creme, from Old French creme, cresme, blend of Late Latin chrisma (“ointment”) (from Ancient Greek χρῖσμα (khrîsma, “unguent”)), and Late Latin crāmum (“cream”), from Gaulish *crama…
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From Middle English creime, creme, from Old French creme, cresme, blend of Late Latin chrisma (“ointment”) (from Ancient Greek χρῖσμα (khrîsma, “unguent”)), and Late Latin crāmum (“cream”), from Gaulish *crama (compare Welsh cramen (“scab, skin”), Breton crammen), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)krama- (compare Middle Irish screm (“surface, skin”), Dutch schram (“abrasion”), Lithuanian kramas (“scurf”)). Doublet of crema and crème. Displaced native Old English rēam (“cream”) (> modern ream). Figurative sense of "most excellent element or part" appears from 1581. Verb meaning "to beat, thrash, wreck" is 1929, U.S. colloquial. The U.S. standard of identity is from 21 CFR 131.3(a).
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