cream

[kreem] /krim/
noun
1.
the fatty part of milk, which rises to the surface when the liquid is allowed to stand unless homogenized.
2.
a soft solid or thick liquid containing medicaments or other specific ingredients, applied externally for a prophylactic, therapeutic, or cosmetic purpose.
3.
Usually, creams. a soft-centered confection of fondant or fudge coated with chocolate.
4.
a purée or soup containing cream or milk:
cream of tomato soup.
5.
the best part of anything:
the cream of society.
6.
a yellowish white; light tint of yellow or buff.
verb (used without object)
7.
to form cream.
8.
to froth; foam.
9.
Informal. to advance or favor only the wealthiest, most skilled or talented, etc., especially so as to reap the benefits oneself:
Management is creaming by advancing only the most productive workers.
10.
Also, cream one's jeans. Slang: Vulgar.
  1. to have an orgasm, especially to ejaculate or experience glandular lubrication of the vagina.
  2. to be overcome, as in rapturous admiration or delight.
verb (used with object)
11.
to work (butter and sugar, or the like) to a smooth, creamy mass.
12.
to prepare (chicken, oysters, vegetables, etc.) with cream, milk, or a cream sauce.
13.
to allow (milk) to form cream.
14.
to skim (milk).
15.
to separate as cream.
16.
to take the cream or best part of.
17.
to use a cosmetic cream on.
18.
to add cream to (tea, coffee, etc.).
19.
Slang.
  1. to beat or damage severely; lambaste.
  2. to defeat decisively.
  3. to accomplish, especially to pass (a test or course), with great ease and success:
    She creamed the math test, getting the highest grade in the class.
adjective
20.
of the color cream; cream-colored.
Idioms
21.
cream of the crop, the best or choicest:
a college that accepts only students who are the cream of the crop.
Origin
1300-50; Middle English creme < Anglo-French, Old French cresme < Late Latin chrīsma chrism
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British Dictionary definitions for cream

cream

/kriːm/
noun
1.
  1. the fatty part of milk, which rises to the top if the milk is allowed to stand
  2. (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.
a soup containing cream or milk: cream of chicken soup
5.
any of various dishes, cakes, biscuits, etc, resembling or containing cream
6.
a confection made of fondant or soft fudge, often covered in chocolate
7.
cream sherry, a full-bodied sweet sherry
8.
  1. a yellowish-white colour
  2. (as adjective): cream wallpaper
verb
9.
(transitive) to skim or otherwise separate the cream from (milk)
10.
(transitive) to beat (foodstuffs, esp butter and sugar) to a light creamy consistency
11.
(intransitive) to form cream
12.
(transitive) to add or apply cream or any creamlike substance to: to cream one's face, to cream coffee
13.
(transitive) sometimes foll by off. to take away the best part of
14.
(transitive) to prepare or cook (vegetables, chicken, etc) with cream or milk
15.
to allow (milk) to form a layer of cream on its surface or (of milk) to form such a layer
16.
(transitive) (slang, mainly US & Canadian, Austral) to beat thoroughly
17.
(intransitive) (slang) (of a man) to ejaculate during orgasm
Derived Forms
creamlike, adjective
Word Origin
C14: from Old French cresme, from Late Latin crāmum cream, of Celtic origin; influenced by Church Latin chrisma unction, chrism
Word Origin and History for cream
n.

early 14c., creyme, from Old French cresme (13c., Modern French crème) "chrism, holy oil," blend of Late Latin chrisma "ointment" (from Greek khrisma "unguent;" see chrism) and Late Latin cramum "cream," which is perhaps from Gaulish. Replaced Old English ream. Re-borrowed 19c. from French as creme. Figurative sense of "most excellent element or part" is from 1580s. Cream-cheese is from 1580s.

v.

mid-15c., "to foam," from cream (n.). Meaning "to beat, thrash, wreck" is 1929, U.S. colloquial. Related: Creamed; creaming.

cream in Medicine

cream (krēm)
n.

  1. The yellowish fatty component of unhomogenized milk that tends to accumulate at the surface.

  2. A pharmaceutical preparation consisting of a semisolid emulsion of either the oil-in-water or the water-in-oil type, ordinarily intended for topical use.

Slang definitions & phrases for cream

cream

noun

A white person; paddy: He was a ''cream'' in a car full of home boys and bloods from the black projects (1980s+ Black)

verb
  1. To cheat or deprive someone of something, esp by silky glibness: I got creamed out of the hotel spot in Ohio/ a smoothie who wolfed on a friend and creamed his lady (1920s+)
  2. To do very well against; overcome; clobber: You didn't stop by just to tell me how you creamed the Irish (1929+)
  3. To be sexually aroused, esp so as to secrete sexual fluids, either semen or lubricants •Cream has meant ''semen'' since at least the middle 1800s: He thinks we're gettin' all agitated over here creamin' in our drawers/ It made me cream in my panties, isn't that fun? (1940s+)
Related Terms

ice cream, ice cream habit


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