cream
English
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editFrom 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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editNoun
editcream (countable and uncountable, plural creams)
- The butterfat/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…
- (standards of identity, US) The liquid separated from milk, possibly with certain other milk products added, and with at least eighteen percent of it milkfat.
- 2018 February 13, Rebecca Firsker, "What's Really in Oreo Cream Filling? Well, for One Thing, Not Cream", MyRecipes:
- 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."
- 2018 February 13, Rebecca Firsker, "What's Really in Oreo Cream Filling? Well, for One Thing, Not Cream", MyRecipes:
- (standards of identity, UK) The liquid separated from milk containing at least 18 percent milkfat (48% for double cream).
- (tea and coffee) A portion of cream, such as the amount found in a creamer.
- I take my coffee with two cream and three sugar.
- A yellowish white colour; the colour of cream.
- cream:
- 1962 October, Brian Haresnape, “Focus on B.R. passenger stations”, in Modern Railways, page 253:
- 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.
- (informal) Frosting, custard, creamer, or another substance similar to the oily part of milk or to whipped cream.
- (figuratively) The best part of something.
- the cream of the crop
- the cream of a collection of books or pictures
- 1612, Thomas Shelton (translator), Don Quixote (originally by Miguel de Cervantes)
- Welcome, O flower and cream of Knights-errant.
- 1918 August, Katherine Mansfield [pseudonym; Kathleen Mansfield Murry], “Bliss”, in Bliss and Other Stories, London: Constable & Company, published 1920, →OCLC, page 124:
- “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?”
- 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 4:
- […] 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.’
- (medicine) A viscous aqueous oil/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.
- 1756, Oliver Goldsmith, The Double Transformation:
- In vain she tries her paste and creams, / To smooth her skin or hide its seams.
- (vulgar, slang) Semen.
- (obsolete) The chrism or consecrated oil used in anointing ceremonies.
- 1470–1485 (date produced), Thomas Malory, “(please specify the chapter)”, in [Le Morte Darthur], (please specify the book number), [London: […] by William Caxton], published 31 July 1485, →OCLC; republished as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, Le Morte Darthur […], London: David Nutt, […], 1889, →OCLC:, Book V:
- there shall never harlot have happe, by the helpe of Oure Lord, to kylle a crowned Kynge that with Creyme is anoynted.
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edit- barrier cream
- Bavarian cream
- BB cream
- Boston cream
- Boston cream donut
- Boston cream pie
- bourbon cream
- burnt cream
- butter cream
- Cambridge cream
- cat that got the cream
- Chantilly cream
- clotted cream
- clouted cream
- coconut cream
- codlins and cream
- cold cream
- confectioner's cream
- cream ale
- cream bun
- cream cake
- cream cheese
- cream-colored courser
- cream corn
- cream cracker
- cream crackered, cream-crackered
- creamcups
- creamer
- cream-fruit
- cream gauge
- cream gene
- cream horn
- cream in one's coffee
- cream in the can
- cream-laid
- creamless
- cream line
- cream nut
- cream of coconut
- cream of lime
- cream of tartar
- cream of tartar bread
- cream of tartar tree
- cream of the crop
- cream of the valley
- cream of wheat
- creampie
- cream pie
- cream puff
- cream puff piece
- cream rinse
- cream sauce
- cream sherry
- cream skim, cream-skim
- cream skimming
- cream slice
- cream soda
- cream soup
- cream stew
- cream tea
- creamware
- cream wove
- creamy
- Creole cream cheese
- custard cream
- day cream
- denture cream
- Devonshire cream
- diplomat cream
- double cream
- egg cream
- face cream
- facial cream
- French cream
- glacier cream
- gypsy cream
- hand cream
- heavy cream
- ice cream
- iced cream
- Irish cream
- Jersey cream
- light cream
- like the cat that got the cream
- mint cream
- mock cream
- moisturising cream, moisturizing cream
- nice cream
- night cream
- pastry cream
- peaches and cream
- peaches-and-cream
- razor cream
- salad cream
- shave cream
- shaving cream
- single cream
- skin cream
- snow cream
- sour cream
- soured cream
- sports cream
- squirty cream
- stone cream
- strawberries and cream
- sugar cream pie
- sun cream
- suntan cream
- sweet cream
- tequila cream
- Trinity cream
- vanishing cream
- whip cream
- whipped cream
- whipping cream
Descendants
edit- → Chinese: 忌廉, 淇淋 (qílín)
- → Hindi: क्रीम (krīm)
- → Indonesian: krim
- → Japanese: クリーム (kurīmu)
- → Korean: 크림 (keurim)
- → Swahili: krimu
- → Thai: ครีม (kriim)
- → Zulu: ukhilimu
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Adjective
editcream (not comparable)
- Cream-coloured; having a yellowish white colour.
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Verb
editcream (third-person singular simple present creams, present participle creaming, simple past and past participle creamed)
- (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.
- (transitive, slang) To obliterate, to defeat decisively.
- We creamed the opposing team!
- (intransitive, vulgar, slang) To ejaculate (used of either gender).
- 1971, Jim Jacobs, Warren Casey, “Grease Lightnin’”, in Grease:
- Danny Zuko: You are supreme / The chicks’ll cream / For grease lightning.
- (transitive, vulgar, slang) To ejaculate in (clothing or a bodily orifice).
- (transitive, cooking) To rub, stir, or beat (butter) into a light creamy consistency.
- (transitive) To skim, or take off by skimming, as cream.
- (transitive, figurative) To take off the best or choicest part of.
- (transitive) To furnish with, or as if with, cream.
- Please cream these two coffees and leave the others black.
- 1871, Adeline Dutton Train Whitney, Real Folks:
- creaming the fragrant cups
- 1906, Mark Twain, “William Dean Howells”, in Harper's Monthly Magazine[3], volume 113, number 674, page 221:
- A powerful agent is the right word: it lights the reader's way and makes it plain; a close approximation to it will answer, and much traveling is done in a well-enough fashion by its help, but we do not welcome it and applaud it and rejoice in it as we do when the right one blazes out on us. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or a newspaper the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt: it tingles exquisitely around through the walls of the mouth and tastes as tart and crisp and good as the autumn-butter that creams the sumac-berry.
- (intransitive) To gather or form cream.
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edit- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Jyutping: kwim1
- Yale: kwīm
- Cantonese Pinyin: kwim1
- Guangdong Romanization: kuim1
- Sinological IPA (key): /kʷʰiːm⁵⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
Noun
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References
edit- Bauer, Robert S. (2021) ABC Cantonese-English Comprehensive Dictionary, Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, →ISBN, page 548
Galician
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- (reintegrationist norm, less recommended) inflection of crer:
Romanian
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