cream puff

plural cream puffs · alternative creampuff

1. A light, hollow pastry typically filled with cream or custard.
2. figurativelyinformalA weak or ineffectual person.

   You little cream puff Mac Daddy wannabe / Keep dreaming 'cause a Mac you will never be

   1992, “Warm It Up”, in Totally Krossed Out, performed by Kris Kross

   2 more examples

   — Oh, Mr. Jackson, I think you're wonderful. You've really got what it takes. — Well, I ain't exactly a cream puff.

   1947, 2 min 55 sec from the start, in My Favorite Brunette

   Everybody wants to be liked, whether they are a hard-ass or a cream puff. That's very difficult in baseball.

   2005, Jerry Remy, Watching Baseball: Discovering the Game Within the Game, page 298

3. slangAn old motor vehicle in especially good condition.
4. slangball gamesA weak pitch.

   So instead of lobbing a cream puff, I kicked up my leg and brought the Ruttlemyer Express.

   2000, W. P. Kinsella, Baseball Fantastic: Stories

   1 more example

   Joseph “Stretch” Suba, a batting-practice pitcher, served up “big, fat, medium fast cream puffs for the All-Star hitters […]

   2011, Paul Dickson, Skip McAfee, The Dickson Baseball Dictionary (Third Edition), page 225

5. ScotlandslangA state of mild annoyance or irritation.

   to be in the cream puff

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   'You still in the cream puff, or what?' I shook my head. No, I wasn't in the huff.

   1992, Jeff Torrington, Swing Hammer Swing!, London: Secker & Warburg, →ISBN, page 338

6. datedslangA gay man.

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   "Why'm I here? You ask that Big Guinea why I'm here? . . . He thinks I'm a ruff-tuff cream puff and that the only way I'm goin' to learn my lesson is by puttin' me away. That's why I'm here. Well, he got to think different that's all. He'd say I was a whore, and now my test says I'm negative ... So I guess he's got another think coming . . ."

   1967, Joan Colebrook, The Cross of Lassitude: Portraits of Five Delinquents, Alfred A. Knopf, page 72

7. obsoleteslanggovernmentAn exploding shell.