cream

Meanings

Noun

• The butterfat/milkfat part of milk which rises to the top; this part when separated from the remainder.
• A yellowish white colour; the colour of cream.
• Frosting, custard, creamer or another substance similar to the oily part of milk or to whipped cream.
• The best part of something.
• A viscous aqueous oil/fat emulsion with a medicament added, used to apply that medicament to the skin. (compare with ointment)
• Semen.
• The chrism or consecrated oil used in anointing ceremonies.

Adjective

• Cream-coloured; having a yellowish white colour.

Verb

• To puree, to blend with a liquifying process.
• To turn a yellowish white colour; to give something the color of cream.
• To obliterate, to defeat decisively.
• To ejaculate .
• 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.
• To gather or form cream.

Related

Similar words

• crème, creme; ream
• crème, creme

Origin

• From Middle English creime, creme, from Old French creme, cresme, blend of Late Latin chrisma ("ointment") (from Ancient Greek χρῖσμα ("unguent")), and Late Latin crāmum ("skim"), 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")). crema, and crème. Displaced native Old English rēam ("cream") (> modern ream).
• 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 .