cream puff

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cream puff

noun cream puffs · creampuff

  1. A light, hollow pastry typically filled with cream or custard.
  2. figuratively, informal A weak or ineffectual person. — Oh, Mr. Jackson, I think you're wonderful. You've really got what it takes. — Well, I ain't exactly a cream puff.
  3. slang An old motor vehicle in especially good condition.
  4. slang A weak pitch. So instead of lobbing a cream puff, I kicked up my leg and brought the Ruttlemyer Express.
  5. Scotland, slang A state of mild annoyance or irritation. to be in the cream puff
  6. dated, slang A gay man. "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
  7. obsolete, slang An exploding shell.

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noun hollow pastry filled with cream or custard

Españolbocadito de nata, petisú
한국어슈크림 syukeurim
日本語シュークリーム shū-kurīmu
中文奶油泡芙 nǎiyóu pàofú, 泡芙 pàofú
Françaischou à la crème, chou
DeutschWindbeutel
Italianobignè, bignè alla panna, bignè alla crema
Ελληνικάσου sou
Русскийшу šu, патешу patešu
Tiếng Việtbánh su kem
עבריתפַּחְזָנִית pachzanít

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@misc{cream_puff_2026,
  title = {cream puff},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/cream%20puff},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}