cream

plural creams · alternative creme · alternative creyme

1. countableuncountableThe 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…

   1. UScountableuncountablestandards of identityThe liquid separated from milk, possibly with certain other milk products added, and with at least eighteen percent of it milkfat.

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      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."

      2018 February 13, Rebecca Firsker, "What's Really in Oreo Cream Filling? Well, for One Thing, Not Cream", MyRecipes

   2. UKcountableuncountablestandards of identityThe liquid separated from milk containing at least 18 percent milkfat (48% for double cream).
   3. countableuncountabletea and coffeeA portion of cream, such as the amount found in a creamer.

      I take my coffee with two cream and three sugar.

2. countableuncountableA 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.

   1962 October, Brian Haresnape, “Focus on B.R. passenger stations”, in Modern Railways, page 253

3. countableinformaluncountableFrosting, 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.

   2004, Joey Green, Joey Green's Incredible Country Store, Rodale, →ISBN, page 267

4. countableuncountableA dish prepared through creaming, particularly cream of
5. countablefigurativelyuncountableThe best part of something.

   the cream of the crop

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   the cream of a collection of books or pictures

   Welcome, O flower and cream of Knights-errant.

   1612, Thomas Shelton (translator), Don Quixote (originally by Miguel de Cervantes)

   “But the cream of it was," said Norman, pressing a large tortoiseshell-rimmed monocle into his eye, “you don't mind me telling this, Face, do you?”

   1918 August, Katherine Mansfield [pseudonym; Kathleen Mansfield Murry], “Bliss”, in Bliss and Other Stories, London: Constable & Company, published 1920, →OCLC, page 124

   […] he can assure the assembled Deans that all this is true, and that the Academy has presently in residence no fewer than a third of the continent’s top thirty juniors, in age brackets all across the board, and that I here, who go by ‘Hal,’ usually, am ‘right up there among the very cream.’

   1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 4

6. countableuncountablemedicineA 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.

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   In vain she tries her paste and creams, / To smooth her skin or hide its seams.

   1756, Oliver Goldsmith, The Double Transformation

7. countableslanguncountablevulgarSemen.

   2001, Darwin Porter, Hollywood’s Silent Closet: The Lusty Saga of America’s First Star F*#%er!! (novel), 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.

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   He tucked his cock into his pants before rubbing his cream into her breasts in slow, teasing strokes.

   2003, Dominique Adair, “Two Days, Three Nights”, in Tied with a Bow, Ellora’s Cave Publishing, →ISBN, page 74

   When he did come, he spurted his cream all over the front of Rosalee’s T-shirt and neck.

   2004, Art Wiederhold, Wild Flowers, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 158

8. countableobsoleteuncountableThe 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.

   , Book V

alternative creme · alternative creyme

1. not comparableCream-coloured; having a yellowish white colour.

present singular third person creams · participle present creaming · participle past creamed · past creamed · alternative creme · alternative creyme

1. transitiveTo puree, to blend with a liquifying process.

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

2. transitiveTo turn a yellowish white color; to give something the color of cream.
3. slangtransitiveTo obliterate, to defeat decisively.

   We creamed the opposing team!

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   First up, the Hungarian election, where Prime Minister Viktor Orban and his Fidesz Party got absolutely creamed.

   2026 April 18, Michelle Cottle, David French, Michelle Goldberg, “JD Vance’s Very Bad Week”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

4. intransitiveslangvulgarTo ejaculate or become wet (used of either gender).

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

   1971, Jim Jacobs, Warren Casey, “Grease Lightnin’”, in Grease

5. broadlyintransitiveslangvulgarTo be very enthusiastic about or attracted to something (used especially of women).
6. slangtransitivevulgarTo ejaculate in (clothing or a bodily orifice).
7. transitivecookingTo rub, stir, or beat (butter) into a light creamy consistency.
8. transitiveTo skim, or take off by skimming, as cream.
9. figurativelytransitiveTo take off the best or choicest part of.
10. transitiveTo furnish with, or as if with, cream.

    Please cream these two coffees and leave the others black.

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    creaming the fragrant cups

    1871, Adeline Dutton Train Whitney, Real Folks

    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 when the 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 that creams the sumac-berry.

    1906, Mark Twain, “William Dean Howells”, in Harper's Monthly Magazine, volume 113, number 674, page 221

11. intransitiveTo gather or form cream.