cream
(krēm)n.1. a. The yellowish fatty component of unhomogenized milk that tends to accumulate at the surface.
b. Any of various substances resembling or containing cream: hand cream.
2. A pale yellow to yellowish white.
3. The choicest part: the cream of the crop.
v. creamed, cream·ing, creams
v.intr.1. To form cream.
2. To form foam or froth at the top.
3. Vulgar Slang a. To have an orgasm.
b. To be excited or delighted about something.
v.tr.1. To remove the cream from; skim.
2. a. To take or remove (the best part): creamed off the highest-paying jobs for her cronies.
b. To take the best part from: creamed the whole department to form his management team.
3. To beat into a creamy consistency.
4. To prepare or cook in or with a cream sauce.
5. To add cream to.
6. Slang a. To defeat overwhelmingly: creamed our rival on their home court.
b. To damage severely; destroy: My camera got creamed when I dropped it.
7. Vulgar Slang To have an orgasm in (one's pants, for example).
Idiom: cream (one's) jeans/panties Vulgar Slang To be excited or delighted about something.
[Middle English
creme, from Old French
craime, cresme, partly from Late Latin
crāmum (
of Gaulish origin; akin to Welsh
crawen, cramen,
crust, and Middle Irish
screm,
film), and partly from Vulgar Latin
*crisma,
an anointing (from Latin
chrīsma, from Greek
khrīsma,
unguent, from
khrīein,
to anoint; see
ghrēi- in
Indo-European roots).]
cream adj.
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cream
(kriːm) n1. (Cookery)
a. the fatty part of milk, which rises to the top if the milk is allowed to stand
b. (as modifier): cream buns.
2. anything resembling cream in consistency: shoe cream; beauty cream.
3. the best one or most essential part of something; pick: the cream of the bunch; the cream of the joke.
4. (Cookery) a soup containing cream or milk: cream of chicken soup.
5. (Cookery) any of various dishes, cakes, biscuits, etc, resembling or containing cream
6. (Cookery) a confection made of fondant or soft fudge, often covered in chocolate
7. (Brewing) cream sherry a full-bodied sweet sherry
8. (Colours)
a. a yellowish-white colour
b. (as adjective): cream wallpaper.
vb9. (Cookery) (tr) to skim or otherwise separate the cream from (milk)
10. (Cookery) (tr) to beat (foodstuffs, esp butter and sugar) to a light creamy consistency
11. (Cookery) (intr) to form cream
12. (tr) to add or apply cream or any creamlike substance to: to cream one's face; to cream coffee.
13. (sometimes foll by: off) to take away the best part of
14. (Cookery) (tr) to prepare or cook (vegetables, chicken, etc) with cream or milk
15. (Cookery) to allow (milk) to form a layer of cream on its surface or (of milk) to form such a layer
16. (tr) slang chiefly US and Canadian and Austral to beat thoroughly
17. (Physiology) (intr) slang (of a man) to ejaculate during orgasm
[C14: from Old French cresme, from Late Latin crāmum cream, of Celtic origin; influenced by Church Latin chrisma unction, chrism]
ˈcreamˌlike adj
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cream
(krim)
n. 1. the fatty part of milk that rises to the surface when the liquid is allowed to stand and is not homogenized.
2. a soft solid or thick liquid containing medicaments or other specific ingredients, applied externally for a prophylactic, therapeutic, or cosmetic purpose.
3. a purée containing cream or milk: cream of tomato soup.
4. any of various foods made with cream or milk or having the thick, smooth consistency of cream: pastry cream.
5. a soft-centered confection of fondant or fudge coated with chocolate.
6. the best part of anything.
7. a yellowish white.
v.i. 8. to form cream.
9. to froth; foam.
v.t. 10. to work (butter and sugar, etc.) to a smooth, creamy mass.
11. to prepare with cream, milk, or a cream sauce: creamed spinach.
12. to allow (milk) to form cream.
13. to remove the cream from (milk); skim.
14. to take the best part of.
15. to use a cosmetic cream on.
16. to add cream to (tea, coffee, etc.).
17. Slang. a. to beat up; thrash.
b. to win decisively over.
adj. 18. of the color cream; cream-colored.
[1300–50; Middle English
creme < Anglo-French, Old French
cresme < Late Latin
chrīsma chrism]
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