Cream

Pronunciation

• IPA: /kɹiːm/
• Rhymes: -iːm

Alternative forms

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

Origin

From Middle English creime, creme, from Anglo-Norman creme, cresme (compare French crème), blend of Late Latin chrisma 'ointment' (from Ancient Greek χρῖσμα 'unguent'), and Late Latin crāmum 'skim', 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'). Replaced native Old English rēam ("")

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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).

Full definition of cream

Noun

1. The butterfat/milkfat part of milk which rises to the top; this part when separated from the remainder.Take 100 ml of cream and 50 grams of sugar …
1. (standard of identity, US) The liquid separated from milk, possibly with certain other milk products added, and with at least eighteen percent of it milkfat.
2. (standard of identity, UK) The liquid separated from milk containing at least 18 percent milkfat (48% for double cream).
2. A yellowish white colour; the colour of cream.
3. (informal) Frosting, custard, creamer, or another substance similar to the oily part of milk or to whipped cream.
• 2004, Joey Green, Joey Green's Incredible Country Store, Rodale Inc., ISBN 1579548482, page 267:Originally the cream filling in Oreo cookies was made with pork lard.
4. (figuratively) The best part of something.the cream of the cropthe cream of a collection of books or pictures
• SheltonWelcome, O flower and cream of knights errant.
5. (medicine) A viscous aqueous oil/fat emulsion with a medicament added, used to apply that medicament to the skin. (compare with ointment)You look really sunburnt; you should apply some cream.
• GoldsmithIn vain she tries her paste and creams,
  To smooth her skin or hide its seams.
6. (vulgar, slang) Semen.
• 2001, Darwin Porter, Hollywood’s Silent Closet: The Lusty Saga of America’s First Star F*#%er!! (novel), Blood Moon Productions, Ltd., ISBN 0-9668030-2-7, page 155,He rode me for ten—or was it fifteen?—minutes before one final fuckthrust that filled me completely with his cream.
• 2003, Dominique Adair, “Two Days, Three Nights” in Tied with a Bow, Ellora’s Cave Publishing, ISBN 1843607433, page 74,He tucked his cock into his pants before rubbing his cream into her breasts in slow, teasing strokes.
• 2004, Art Wiederhold, Wild Flowers, iUniverse, ISBN 0595317898, page 158,When he did come, he spurted his cream all over the front of Rosalee’s T-shirt and neck.
7. (obsolete) The chrism or consecrated oil used in anointing ceremonies.
• 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le MOrte Darthur, 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

• ream

Adjective

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

Verb

1. To puree, to blend with a liquifying process.Cream the vegetables with the olive oil, flour, salt and water mixture.
2. To turn a yellowish white colour; to give something the color of cream.
3. (slang) To obliterate, to defeat decisively.We creamed the opposing team!
4. (intransitive, vulgar, slang) To ejaculate used of either gender.
5. (transitive, vulgar, slang) To ejaculate in (clothing).
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.
• Mrs. WhitneyCreaming the fragrant cups.

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