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cream

  • /kɹiːm/ Australia, New Zealand, UK
  • /kɹim/ Canada, US
  • /kɾim/ Scotland
  • /kɾiːm/ Wales

Rhymes with -iːm

Where it comes from

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); and native Old English flīete f (“cream”) related to flotian (> modern float) from Proto-Germanic *flutōną (“to float”).

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).

noun creams · creme · creyme

  1. countable, uncountable 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. US, countable, uncountable The liquid separated from milk, possibly with certain other milk products added, and with at least eighteen percent of it milkfat. 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
  3. UK, countable, uncountable The liquid separated from milk containing at least 18 percent milkfat (48% for double cream).
  4. countable, uncountable A portion of cream, such as the amount found in a creamer. I take my coffee with two cream and three sugar.
  5. countable, uncountable 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.
  6. countable, informal, uncountable 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.
  7. countable, uncountable A dish prepared through creaming, particularly cream of
  8. countable, figuratively, uncountable The best part of something. the cream of the crop
  9. countable, uncountable 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.
  10. countable, slang, uncountable, vulgar Semen. 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.
  11. countable, obsolete, uncountable 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.

Similar: crème, creme, ream

adjective creme · creyme

  1. not comparable Cream-coloured; having a yellowish white colour.

Similar: crème, creme

verb creams · creaming · creamed · creme · creyme

  1. transitive To puree, to blend with a liquifying process. Cream the vegetables with the olive oil, flour, salt and water mixture.
  2. transitive To turn a yellowish white color; to give something the color of cream.
  3. slang, transitive To obliterate, to defeat decisively. We creamed the opposing team!
  4. intransitive, slang, vulgar To ejaculate or become wet (used of either gender). Danny Zuko: You are supreme / The chicks’ll cream / For grease lightning.
  5. broadly, intransitive, slang, vulgar To be very enthusiastic about or attracted to something (used especially of women).
  6. slang, transitive, vulgar To ejaculate in (clothing or a bodily orifice).
  7. transitive To rub, stir, or beat (butter) into a light creamy consistency.
  8. transitive To skim, or take off by skimming, as cream.
  9. figuratively, transitive To take off the best or choicest part of.
  10. transitive To furnish with, or as if with, cream. Please cream these two coffees and leave the others black.
  11. intransitive To gather or form cream.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: cream off, soupy, ointment, emollient, pick, thick, skim off, skim, butter, soup, creme, ice-cream, crème, custard, chocolate, cake

noun

Similar: crème, creme, ream

adjective

Similar: crème, creme

Translations

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noun fatty part of milk

Españolnata, crema
한국어크림 keurim
日本語クリーム kurīmu
中文奶油 nǎiyóu, 乳脂 rǔzhī
हिन्दीमलाई malāī
Portuguêscreme, nata
Françaiscrème
DeutschRahm
Italianopanna
Ελληνικάκρέμα γάλακτος kréma gálaktos
Românăsmântână
Русскийсли́вки slívki, смета́на smetána
Tiếng Việtkem, cơ rem, kem sữa, váng sữa
العربيةقِشْطَة qišṭa, قِشْدَة qišda
עבריתשַׁמֶּנֶת shaménet

noun colour

Españolcrema, bayo
日本語クリーム色 kurīmu iro
中文乳白色 rǔbáisè, 奶油色 nǎiyóusè
Portuguêscreme
Françaiscrème
DeutschCreme
Italianocrema
Ελληνικάκρεμ krem
Românăcrem
Русскийкре́мовый krémovyj, кре́мовый цвет krémovyj cvet
Tiếng Việtmàu kem
עבריתקָרַם krem

noun the best part

Españolla flor y la crema, la crema
Portuguêscreme, nata
Françaiscrème de la crème, fleur, fine fleur, fin du fin
DeutschCreme, Kreme, Sahnestück, Schmankerl
Italianocrema
Românăcremă
Русскийсли́вки slívki
עבריתקצפת katzéfet

noun product to apply to the skin

Españolcrema, potingue
한국어크림 keurim
日本語クリーム kurīmu
中文面霜 miànshuāng, 霜 shuāng, 雪花膏 xuěhuāgāo
हिन्दीक्रीम krīm
Kiswahilikrimu
Portuguêscreme
Françaiscrème, onguent
DeutschCreme, Kreme
Italianocrema
Ελληνικάκρέμα kréma
Românăcremă
Русскийкрем krem, мазь mazʹ
Tiếng Việtkem, cờ-rem
العربيةكْرِيم krīm
עבריתקָרַם krem

adj colour

Españolcrema, de color crema, bayo
日本語クリーム色の kurīmu-iro no
中文奶油变色 nǎiyóu biànsè
Portuguêscreme
Françaiscrème
Ελληνικάκρεμ krem
Русскийкре́мовый krémovyj

verb to cream vegetables

Españolmezclar con crema
日本語クリーム状にする kuriimu joo ni suru
Deutschcremen, schlagen

verb to turn yellowish white

日本語クリーム色にする kuriimu iro ni suru

verb to obliterate, to win over someone else quite decisively

Españolhacer polvo, hacer papilla
日本語叩きのめす tatakinomesu, 打ち負かす uchimakasu
Françaisécraser, poutrer, démolir
Deutschjemanden eins überziehen

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@misc{cream_2026,
  title = {cream},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/cream},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}