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See also:créamandcreăm

English

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Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishcreime,creme, fromOld Frenchcreme,cresme, blend ofLate Latinchrisma(“ointment”) (fromAncient Greekχρῖσμα(khrîsma,“unguent”)), andLate Latincrāmum(“cream”), fromGaulish*crama (compareWelshcramen(“scab, skin”),Bretoncrammen), fromProto-Indo-European*(s)krama- (compareMiddle Irishscrem(“surface, skin”),Dutchschram(“abrasion”),Lithuaniankramas(“scurf”)).Doublet ofcrema andcrème. Displaced nativeOld Englishrēam(“cream”) (> modernream).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 from21 CFR 131.3(a).

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cream (countable anduncountable,pluralcreams)

  2. Thebutterfat ormilkfat part ofmilk which rises to the top; this part when separated from the remainder.
    Take 100 ml ofcream and 50 grams of sugar…
    1. (standards of identity, US) Theliquid separated from milk, possibly with certain other milk products added, and with at least eighteenpercent of itmilkfat.
      • 2018 February 13, Rebecca Firsker,"What's Really in Oreo Cream Filling? Well, for One Thing, NotCream",MyRecipes:
        You may have noticed that any time that filling is mentioned onOreo packaging, it's called "creme." This is no typo. Technically, the creamy filling inside an Oreo is notcream at all: The recipe used actually contains no dairy; as such, theFDA prohibitsNabisco from labeling the product as "cream."
    2. (standards of identity, UK) Theliquid separated from milk containing at least 18percentmilkfat (48% for double cream).
    3. (tea and coffee) A portion of cream, such as the amount found in acreamer.
      I take my coffee with twocream and three sugar.
  3. A yellowish whitecolor; the color of cream.
    cream: 
    • 1962 October, Brian Haresnape, “Focus on B.R. passenger stations”, inModern Railways, page253:
      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 ofcream above.
  4. (informal)Frosting,custard,creamer, or another substance similar to the oily part of milk or towhipped cream.
    • 2004, Joey Green,Joey Green's Incredible Country Store,Rodale,→ISBN, page267:
      Originally thecream filling in Oreo cookies was made with pork lard.
  5. (figuratively) The best part of something.
    thecream of the crop
    thecream of a collection of books or pictures
  6. (medicine) Aviscousaqueousoil orfatemulsion with amedicamentadded, used to apply that medicament to theskin. (compare withointment)
    You look really sunburnt; you should apply somecream.
    • 1756,Oliver Goldsmith,The Double Transformation:
      In vain she tries her paste andcreams, / To smooth her skin or hide its seams.
  7. (slang, vulgar)Semen.
    • 2001, Darwin Porter,Hollywood’s Silent Closet: The Lusty Saga of America’s First Star F*#%er!![sic] (novel),[1] 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 hiscream.
    • 2003, Dominique Adair, “Two Days, Three Nights”, inTied with a Bow, Ellora’s Cave Publishing,→ISBN,page74:
      He tucked his cock into his pants before rubbing hiscream into her breasts in slow, teasing strokes.
    • 2004, Art Wiederhold,Wild Flowers‎[2], iUniverse,→ISBN, page158:
      When he did come, he spurted hiscream all over the front of Rosalee’s T-shirt and neck.
  8. (obsolete) Thechrism or consecrated oil used inanointing ceremonies.
    • 1470–1485 (date produced),Thomas Malory, “(please specify the chapter)”, in[Le Morte Darthur],(please specify the book number), [London: […] byWilliam Caxton], published31 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 withCreyme is anoynted.

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Translations

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oily part of milk
colour
the best part
product to apply to the skin
semen—seesemen
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Adjective

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cream (notcomparable)

  1. Cream-coloured; having a yellowish whitecolour.

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colour

Verb

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cream (third-person singular simple presentcreams,present participlecreaming,simple past and past participlecreamed)

  1. (transitive) Topuree, toblend with aliquifyingprocess.
    Cream the vegetables with the olive oil, flour, salt and water mixture.
  2. (transitive) Toturn ayellowishwhitecolor; togive something the color of cream.
  3. (transitive, slang) Toobliterate, todefeatdecisively.
    Wecreamed the opposing team!
  4. (intransitive, vulgar, slang) Toejaculate(used of either gender).
    • 1971, Jim Jacobs, Warren Casey, “Grease Lightnin’”, inGrease:
      Danny Zuko: You are supreme / The chicks’llcream / For grease lightning.
  5. (transitive, vulgar, slang) To ejaculate in (clothing or abodilyorifice).
  6. (transitive, cooking) Torub,stir, orbeat (butter) into alightcreamyconsistency.
  7. (transitive) Toskim, ortake off by skimming, as cream.
  8. (transitive, figurative) To take off the best orchoicest part of.
  9. (transitive) Tofurnish with, or as if with, cream.
    Pleasecream 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”, inHarper's Monthly Magazine‎[3], volume113, number674, page221:
      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 whenthe 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 thatcreams the sumac-berry.
  10. (intransitive) Togather orform cream.

Derived terms

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Translations

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to cream vegetables
to turn yellowish white
to obliterate, to win over someone else quite decisively

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Colors/Colours in English(layout ·text)
            red        orange            yellow            green            blue (incl.    indigo;
            cyan,teal,turquoise)		            purple /violet
        pink (including
        magenta)		        brown    white            gray/grey    black

Anagrams

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Chinese

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Etymology

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FromEnglishcream.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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cream

  1. (Hong Kong Cantonese)face cream;hand cream
    搽cream[Cantonese]  ― caa4kwim1[Jyutping]  ―  to applyface cream
  2. (Hong Kong Cantonese)cream;whipped cream

References

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  • Bauer, Robert S. (2021)ABC Cantonese-English Comprehensive Dictionary, Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press,→ISBN, page548

Galician

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Verb

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cream

  1. (reintegrationist norm, less recommended) inflection ofcrer:
    1. third-personpluralpresentsubjunctive
    2. third-personpluralimperative

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Verb

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cream

  1. first-personsingular/pluralimperfect ofcrea
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