cream

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English

Alternative forms

• creme (14th century onwards)
• creyme (14th-15th centuries)

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).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɹiːm/
• Rhymes: -iːm

Noun

cream (countable and uncountable, plural creams)

2. The butterfat or milkfat part of milk which rises to the top; this part when separated from the remainder.
   1. (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."

   2. (standards of identity, UK) The liquid separated from milk containing at least 18 percent milkfat (48% for double cream).
   3. (tea and coffee) A portion of cream, such as the amount found in a creamer.

3. A yellowish white color; the color of cream.
4. (informal) Frosting, custard, creamer, or another substance similar to the oily part of milk or to whipped cream.
5. A dish prepared through creaming, particularly cream of
6. (figuratively) The best part of something.
   • 1612, Thomas Shelton (translator), Don Quixote (originally by Miguel de Cervantes)

     Welcome, O flower and cream of Knights-errant.
7. (medicine) A viscous aqueous oil or fat emulsion with a medicament added, used to apply that medicament to the skin. (compare with ointment)
8. (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 his cream.
9. (obsolete) The chrism or consecrated oil used in anointing ceremonies.
   • , Book V:

     there shall never harlot have happe, by the helpe of Oure Lord, to kylle a crowned Kynge that with Creyme is anoynted.

Synonyms

• crème, creme
• ream

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Adjective

cream (not comparable)

1. Cream-coloured; having a yellowish white colour.

Synonyms

• crème, creme

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Verb

cream (third-person singular simple present creams, present participle creaming, simple past and past participle creamed)

1. (transitive) To puree, to blend with a liquifying process.

   Cream the vegetables with the olive oil, flour, salt and water mixture.

2. (transitive) To turn a yellowish white color; to give something the color of cream.
3. (transitive, slang) To obliterate, to defeat decisively.

4. (intransitive, vulgar, slang) To ejaculate (used of either gender).
5. (transitive, vulgar, slang) To ejaculate in (clothing or a bodily orifice).
6. (transitive, cooking) To rub, stir, or beat (butter) into a light creamy consistency.
7. (transitive) To skim, or take off by skimming, as cream.
8. (transitive, figurative) To take off the best or choicest part of.
9. (transitive) To furnish with, or as if with, cream.
10. (intransitive) To gather or form cream.

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See also

Anagrams

• Carme, McRae, crame, crema, macer, recam

Chinese

Etymology

From English cream.

Pronunciation

Noun

cream

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) face cream; hand cream

   搽cream [Cantonese]  ―  caa⁴ kwim¹ [Jyutping]  ―  to apply face cream

2. (Hong Kong Cantonese) cream; whipped cream

References

• Bauer, Robert S. (2021) ABC Cantonese-English Comprehensive Dictionary, Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, →ISBN, page 548

Galician

Verb

cream

1. (reintegrationist norm, less recommended) inflection of crer:
   1. third-person plural present subjunctive
   2. third-person plural imperative

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kreˈam]

Verb

cream

1. first-person singular/plural imperfect of crea