cream
Plural: creams
Noun
- the best people or things in a group
- "the cream of England's young men were killed in the Great War"
- the part of milk containing the butterfat
- toiletry consisting of any of various substances in the form of a thick liquid that have a soothing and moisturizing effect when applied to the skin
- The butterfat or milkfat part of milk which rises to the top; this part when separated from the remainder.
- 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.
- 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).
- 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.
- A yellowish white color; the color of cream.
- Frosting, custard, creamer, or another substance similar to the oily part of milk or to whipped cream.
- A dish prepared through creaming, particularly cream of
- The best part of something.
- A viscous aqueous oil or fat emulsion with a medicament added, used to apply that medicament to the skin. (compare with ointment)
- Semen.
- The chrism or consecrated oil used in anointing ceremonies.
Verb
Verb Forms: creamed, creaming, creams
- To beat a substance until it is soft and creamy.
- make creamy by beating
- "Cream the butter"
- beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight
- put on cream, as on one's face or body
- "She creams her face every night"
- remove from the surface
- "skim cream from the surface of milk"
- add cream to one's coffee, for example
- To puree, to blend with a liquifying process.
- To turn a yellowish white color; to give something the color of cream.
- To obliterate, to defeat decisively.
- To ejaculate (used of either gender).
- To ejaculate in (clothing or a bodily orifice).
- To rub, stir, or beat (butter) into a light creamy consistency.
- To skim, or take off by skimming, as cream.
- To take off the best or choicest part of.
- To furnish with, or as if with, cream.
- To gather or form cream.
Adj
- Cream-coloured; having a yellowish white colour.
Examples
- I am absolutely going to cream you in this game of Words With Friends.
- I take my coffee with two cream and three sugar.
- Please cream these two coffees and leave the others black.
- Take 100 ml of cream and 50 grams of sugar…
- the cream of a collection of books or pictures
- the cream of the crop
- We creamed the opposing team!
- You look really sunburnt; you should apply some cream.
Origin / 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).
Synonyms
bat, clobber, cream off, drub, emollient, lick, ointment, pick, skim, skim off, thrash, creme, crème, ream
Scrabble Score: 9
cream: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordcream: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
cream: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary