cream
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹiːm/
rhymes: -iːm
Forms: form: creams
form: creme
form: creyme
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 (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).
Senses: examples: text: Take 100 ml of cream and 50 grams of sugar…
glosses: The butterfat or milkfat part of milk which rises to the top; this part when separated from the remainder.
examples: text: 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."
ref: 2018 February 13, Rebecca Firsker, "What's Really in Oreo Cream Filling? Well, for One Thing, Not Cream", MyRecipes
glosses: The butterfat or milkfat part of milk which rises to the top; this part when separated from the remainder.
The liquid separated from milk, possibly with certain other milk products added, and with at least eighteen percent of it milkfat.
qualifier: standards of identity
glosses: The butterfat or milkfat part of milk which rises to the top; this part when separated from the remainder.
The liquid separated from milk containing at least 18 percent milkfat (48% for double cream).
qualifier: standards of identity
examples: text: I take my coffee with two cream and three sugar.
glosses: The butterfat or milkfat part of milk which rises to the top; this part when separated from the remainder.
A portion of cream, such as the amount found in a creamer.
qualifier: tea and coffee
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1962 October, Brian Haresnape, “Focus on B.R. passenger stations”, in Modern Railways, page 253:
glosses: A yellowish white color; the color of cream.
examples: text: Originally the cream filling in Oreo cookies was made with pork lard.
ref: 2004, Joey Green, Joey Green's Incredible Country Store, Rodale, →ISBN, page 267:
glosses: Frosting, custard, creamer, or another substance similar to the oily part of milk or to whipped cream.
glosses: A dish prepared through creaming, particularly cream of
examples: text: the cream of the crop
text: the cream of a collection of books or pictures
text: Welcome, O flower and cream of Knights-errant.
ref: 1612, Thomas Shelton (translator), Don Quixote (originally by Miguel de Cervantes)
text: “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?”
ref: 1918 August, Katherine Mansfield [pseudonym; Kathleen Mansfield Murry], “Bliss”, in Bliss and Other Stories, London: Constable & Company, published 1920, →OCLC, page 124:
text: […] 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.’
ref: 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 4:
glosses: The best part of something.
examples: text: You look really sunburnt; you should apply some cream.
text: In vain she tries her paste and creams, / To smooth her skin or hide its seams.
ref: 1756, Oliver Goldsmith, The Double Transformation:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A viscous aqueous oil or fat emulsion with a medicament added, used to apply that medicament to the skin. (compare with ointment)
examples: text: 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.
text: He tucked his cock into his pants before rubbing his cream into her breasts in slow, teasing strokes.
ref: 2003, Dominique Adair, “Two Days, Three Nights”, in Tied with a Bow, Ellora’s Cave Publishing, →ISBN, page 74:
text: When he did come, he spurted his cream all over the front of Rosalee’s T-shirt and neck.
ref: 2004, Art Wiederhold, Wild Flowers, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 158:
glosses: Semen.
examples: text: there shall never harlot have happe, by the helpe of Oure Lord, to kylle a crowned Kynge that with Creyme is anoynted.
ref: , Book V
glosses: The chrism or consecrated oil used in anointing ceremonies.
Synonyms: crème
creme
ream
Derived terms: barrier cream
Bavarian cream
BB cream
Boston cream
Boston cream donut
Boston cream pie
bourbon cream
burnt cream
butter cream
buttercream
Cambridge cream
cat that got the cream
Chantilly cream
clotted cream
clouted cream
coconut cream
codlins and cream
cold cream
confectioner's cream
creamable
cream ale
cream bun
creambush
cream cake
cream cheese
cream cheeze
cream-colored courser
cream corn
cream cracker
cream crackered
cream-crackered
creamcups
creamer
creamery
cream-fruit
cream gauge
cream gene
cream Havarti
cream horn
cream in one's coffee
creamish
creamlaid
cream-laid
creamless
creamlike
cream line
creamline
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
creamometer
creamometric
cream pie
creampie
cream puff
cream puff piece
cream rinse
cream sauce
cream sherry
creamsicle
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
decream
denture cream
Devonshire cream
diaper cream
diplomat cream
double cream
egg cream
face cream
facial cream
French cream
full cream milk
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
nappy cream
nice cream
night cream
pastry cream
peaches and cream
peaches-and-cream
razor cream
salad cream
shave cream
shaving cream
shoe 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
suncream
suntan cream
sweet cream
tequila cream
Trinity cream
vanishing cream
whip cream
whipped cream
whipping cream