creamcheese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: We tried to torture the answers out of him last year by tying him to a stair in the Ad. building, starving him for sixteen hours, and then running a creamcheese-covered bagel under his nose.
ref: 1974 April 1, “The 2nd Annual Lam Poon Orthodox Jewish Trivia Quiz”, in Lam Poon Collegienne, volume II, number 1, Annville, Pa.: Lebanon Valley College, page three, column 1:
text: I went to the subshop around the corner and ordered an onion bagel with creamcheese.
ref: 1975 November 13, Gregory Katz, “Looking For Louise On A Cold Windy Day: Part VI”, in Vermont Cynic, volume XCIII, number 25, Burlington, Vt.: University of Vermont, page five, column 4:
text: Price of 50c includes lox, creamcheese, bagel, and beverage . . .
ref: 1977 October 21, “Odds, Ends, and Opportunities”, in The Villanovan, volume 53, number 5, Villanova, Pa.: Villanova University, page 2, column 1:
text: The Martian’s beak bit into the bagel. He made smacking noises. “Say,” he said, “I bet this would go great with creamcheese and lox!”
ref: 1980, A. Stanley Kramer, “All Others”, in The Joke’s on Them! A Lifetime Collection of Unexpurgated Jokes (With a Few Hints on How to Tell Them) Together with a Few Funny Stories and Some Limericks to be Recited Only after the Third Drink...., New York, N.Y.: Leisure Books, →ISBN, page 147:
text: Cool and spread with creamcheese frosting. / Creamcheese frosting / 1-oz. package creamcheese, softened […] Beat creamcheese, vanilla, peanut butter, and salt until fluffy. […] Frost with Creamcheese Frosting. / Creamcheese Frosting / 4-oz. package creamcheese, softened
ref: 1983, Susan Smith, Melinda King, Happy Birthday: A Guide To Special Parties For Children, Lake Oswego, Ore.: White Pine Press, →ISBN, pages 16 and 65:
text: You won't find luxurious bonbons here, but you will luck into the world’s most consistently superb carrot cake. It’s heavy on the creamcheese icing and only $1.25 a slab.
ref: 1983 May, Kate Hildebrandt, “Great Grits at the Granary”, in Fine Print, Edmonton, Alta.: Lambda Fine Print Publishing Society, page 20, column 4:
text: Carrot Cake is $1.75 for a generous slice which was not as moist as I like it, but was rescued by the creamcheese frosting.
ref: 1985 December 10, Jayne Salvo, “Within your range: Make a date with the Backside”, in MainSheet, volume 18, number 6, West Barnstable, Mass.: Cape Cod Community College, page 9, column 3:
text: They also serve things like blintzes and creamcheese bagels.
ref: 1992, Mark Lightbody, Tom Smallman, Canada – A Travel Survival Kit, 4th edition, Hawthorn, Vic.: Lonely Planet Publications, →ISBN, page 339, column 2:
text: Storebought dessert, that’s what it’s come to / tenderly rolling short pastry and filling it / with creamcheese and apples and caring — gone are the days.
ref: 1994, Claire Burch, “Notes of a Survivor”, in Homeless in the Nineties: Selected Poetry, Berkeley, Calif.: Regent Press, →ISBN, page 119:
text: Blueberry Creamcheese Bagels
ref: 1994, Jane Hunter, The Microwave Diet Cookbook, McKinney, Tex.: The Magni Group, Inc., →ISBN:
text: Irate at finding her favorite foods missing or Mexicanized beyond recognition, she demanded of the president: “Where are the club sandwiches? . . . On an expensive meal, where is the baked potato filled with creamcheese and chives?[…]”
ref: 2001, Eric Zolov, “Discovering a Land “Mysterious and Obvious”: The Renarrativizing of Postrevolutionary Mexico”, in Gilbert M. Joseph, Anne Rubenstein, Eric Zolov, editors, Fragments of a Golden Age: The Politics of Culture in Mexico Since 1940, Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, →ISBN, section II (At Play Among the Fragments), page 250:
text: Equally familiar are New York images such as creamcheese bagels and yellow cabs that could exist anywhere but which the media have made icons of the city.
ref: 2005, Mick Sinclair, “Foreword”, in Fodor’s Exploring New York City, 6th edition, New York, N.Y.: Fodor’s Travel Publications, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 8:
text: Pastry Paquettes with Apricot & Creamcheese […] Notes: Creamcheese can be substituted for Brie for an equally tasty munchie. […] Herbed Creamcheese […] Creamcheese Frosting
ref: 2006, More Good Thymes in the Kitchen: An Expanded Collection of Recipes from The Thyme Garden, Alsea, Ore.: The Thyme Garden Herb Company, pages 12, 30, and 134:
text: Bagel #1 is topped with PEANUTBUTTER. Bagel #2 is topped with HUMMUS. Bagel #3 is topped with GRAPE JELLY. Bagel #4 is topped with CREAMCHEESE. Bagel #5 is topped with EGG SALAD.
ref: 2008, Sandra K. Nissenberg, The Everything Kids’ Cookbook: From Mac ‘n Cheese to Double Chocolate Chip Cookies—90 Recipes to Have Some Finger-Lickin’ Fun, 2nd edition, Avon, Mass.: Adams Media, F+W Publications, →ISBN, page 135:
text: Dessert is a trio of red velvet cupcakes with creamcheese frosting ($9) that proves to be the surprise of the evening.
ref: 2009 March 5, Gordon Morash, “We go in style: Upscale Hundred Bar + Kitchen the perfect choice for pre-Citadel meal”, in Vue Weekly, number 698, Edmonton, Alta., page 13, column 2:
text: Aar avoided talking about my writing, even avoided mentioning books by authors still alive and in this language—rather his topics were: sex, Achsa, aging, Miriam, and he’d vary them in the manner of the menu: Miriam, aging, Achsa, sex—aging, Miriam, sex, Achsa—bagel with creamcheese, bagel with egg and cheese, bagel with creamcheese and lox. […] Aar went for my bagel, caved it. Laid on the creamcheese, waxy mackerel, frozen sewerlids of tomato and onion.
ref: 2015, Joshua Cohen, Book of Numbers, New York, N.Y.: Random House, →ISBN, pages 1.38 and 1.47:
text: CARROT AND PECAN CUPCAKES WITH HONEY CREAMCHEESE ICING
ref: 2016 October 5, OneMK, number 735, Milton Keynes, page 36:
glosses: Rare form of cream cheese.