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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
- 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…
- 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
- The liquid separated from milk containing at least 18 percent milkfat (48% for double cream).
- A portion of cream, such as the amount found in a creamer. I take my coffee with two cream and three sugar.
- 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.
- 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.
- A dish prepared through creaming, particularly cream of
- The best part of something. the cream of the crop
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
verb creams · creaming · creamed · creme · creyme
- To puree, to blend with a liquifying process. Cream the vegetables with the olive oil, flour, salt and water mixture.
- To turn a yellowish white color; to give something the color of cream.
- To obliterate, to defeat decisively. We creamed the opposing team!
- To ejaculate or become wet (used of either gender). Danny Zuko: You are supreme / The chicks’ll cream / For grease lightning.
- To be very enthusiastic about or attracted to something (used especially of women).
- To ejaculate in (clothing or a bodily orifice).
- To rub, stir, or beat (butter) into a light creamy consistency.
- To skim, or take off by skimming, as cream.
- To take off the best or choicest part of.
- To furnish with, or as if with, cream. Please cream these two coffees and leave the others black.
- 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
Translations
Every language
noun fatty part of milk
| Español | nata, crema |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 크림 keurim |
| 日本語 | クリーム kurīmu |
| 中文 | 奶油 nǎiyóu, 乳脂 rǔzhī |
| हिन्दी | मलाई malāī |
| Português | creme, nata |
| Français | crème |
| Deutsch | Rahm |
| Italiano | panna |
| Ελληνικά | κρέμα γάλακτος kréma gálaktos |
| Română | smântână |
| Русский | сли́вки slívki, смета́на smetána |
| Tiếng Việt | kem, cơ rem, kem sữa, váng sữa |
| العربية | قِشْطَة qišṭa, قِشْدَة qišda |
| עברית | שַׁמֶּנֶת shaménet |
noun colour
| Español | crema, bayo |
|---|---|
| 日本語 | クリーム色 kurīmu iro |
| 中文 | 乳白色 rǔbáisè, 奶油色 nǎiyóusè |
| Português | creme |
| Français | crème |
| Deutsch | Creme |
| Italiano | crema |
| Ελληνικά | κρεμ krem |
| Română | crem |
| Русский | кре́мовый krémovyj, кре́мовый цвет krémovyj cvet |
| Tiếng Việt | màu kem |
| עברית | קָרַם krem |
noun the best part
| Español | la flor y la crema, la crema |
|---|---|
| Português | creme, nata |
| Français | crème de la crème, fleur, fine fleur, fin du fin |
| Deutsch | Creme, Kreme, Sahnestück, Schmankerl |
| Italiano | crema |
| Română | cremă |
| Русский | сли́вки slívki |
| עברית | קצפת katzéfet |
noun product to apply to the skin
| Español | crema, potingue |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 크림 keurim |
| 日本語 | クリーム kurīmu |
| 中文 | 面霜 miànshuāng, 霜 shuāng, 雪花膏 xuěhuāgāo |
| हिन्दी | क्रीम krīm |
| Kiswahili | krimu |
| Português | creme |
| Français | crème, onguent |
| Deutsch | Creme, Kreme |
| Italiano | crema |
| Ελληνικά | κρέμα kréma |
| Română | cremă |
| Русский | крем krem, мазь mazʹ |
| Tiếng Việt | kem, cờ-rem |
| العربية | كْرِيم krīm |
| עברית | קָרַם krem |
adj colour
| Español | crema, de color crema, bayo |
|---|---|
| 日本語 | クリーム色の kurīmu-iro no |
| 中文 | 奶油变色 nǎiyóu biànsè |
| Português | creme |
| Français | crème |
| Ελληνικά | κρεμ krem |
| Русский | кре́мовый krémovyj |
verb to cream vegetables
| Español | mezclar con crema |
|---|---|
| 日本語 | クリーム状にする kuriimu joo ni suru |
| Deutsch | cremen, 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
| Español | hacer polvo, hacer papilla |
|---|---|
| 日本語 | 叩きのめす tatakinomesu, 打ち負かす uchimakasu |
| Français | écraser, poutrer, démolir |
| Deutsch | jemanden eins überziehen |
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