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cream

noun
/kɹiːm/

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).

  1. derived from *(s)krama-✻
  2. derived from *crama✻
  3. derived from crāmum
  4. derived from χρῖσμα
  5. derived from chrisma
  6. derived from creme, cresme
  7. inherited from creime, creme

Definitions

  1. The butterfat or milkfat part of milk which rises to the top

    The butterfat or 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…

  2. A yellowish white color

    A yellowish white color; the color of cream.

    • 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.

  3. Frosting, custard, creamer, or another substance similar to the oily part of milk or to…

    Frosting, custard, creamer, or another substance similar to the oily part of milk or to whipped cream.

    • Originally the cream filling in Oreo cookies was made with pork lard.
  4. ›+ 16 more definitions

    1. A dish prepared through creaming, particularly cream of

    2. The best part of something.

      • the cream of the crop
      • the cream of a collection of books or pictures
      • Welcome, O flower and cream of Knights-errant.

    3. A viscous aqueous oil or fat emulsion with a medicament added, used to apply that…

      A viscous aqueous oil or 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.
      • In vain she tries her paste and creams, / To smooth her skin or hide its seams.

    4. Semen.

      • He tucked his cock into his pants before rubbing his cream into her breasts in slow, teasing strokes.
      • When he did come, he spurted his cream all over the front of Rosalee’s T-shirt and neck.

    5. The chrism or consecrated oil used in anointing ceremonies.

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

    6. Cream-coloured

      Cream-coloured; having a yellowish white colour.

    7. To puree, to blend with a liquifying process.

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

    8. To turn a yellowish white color

      To turn a yellowish white color; to give something the color of cream.

    9. To obliterate, to defeat decisively.

      • We creamed the opposing team!
      • First up, the Hungarian election, where Prime Minister Viktor Orban and his Fidesz Party got absolutely creamed.

    10. To ejaculate (used of either gender).

      • Danny Zuko: You are supreme / The chicks’ll cream / For grease lightning.

    11. To ejaculate in (clothing or a bodily orifice).

    12. To rub, stir, or beat (butter) into a light creamy consistency.

    13. To skim, or take off by skimming, as cream.

    14. To take off the best or choicest part of.

    15. To furnish with, or as if with, cream.

      • Please cream these two coffees and leave the others black.
      • creaming the fragrant cups

    16. To gather or form cream.

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Derived

barrier cream, Bavarian cream, BB cream, beard 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, creamery, cream-fruit, cream gauge, cream gene, cream Havarti, cream horn, cream in one's coffee · +105 more

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at cream. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at cream. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at cream

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA