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cream puff en · NOUN

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. A light, hollow pastry typically filled with cream or custard.
  2. (figuratively, informal) A 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:
    • 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:
    • — 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:
  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. 2000, W. P. Kinsella, Baseball Fantastic: Stories:
    • 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. (Scotland, slang) A state of mild annoyance or irritation.
    • '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:
    • 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 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. (obsolete, slang) An exploding shell.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
creampuff alternative lexicographic
cream puffs Number=Plur lexicographic

Deriveds

cream puff piece

Hypernyms

cream cake (light pastry)

Translations (38)

de Ofenküchlein (hollow pastry filled with cream or custard) · af soesie (hollow pastry filled with cream or custard) · de Windbeutel (hollow pastry filled with cream or custard) · ca profiterola (hollow pastry filled with cream or custard) · it bignè (hollow pastry filled with cream or custard) · es petisú (hollow pastry filled with cream or custard) · de Brandteigkrapferl (hollow pastry filled with cream or custard) · id kue sus (hollow pastry filled with cream or custard) · it bignè alla panna (hollow pastry filled with cream or custard) · ko 슈크림 (hollow pastry filled with cream or custard) · ja シュークリーム (hollow pastry filled with cream or custard) · ru шу (hollow pastry filled with cream or custard) · he פַּחְזָנִית (hollow pastry filled with cream or custard) · tr profiterol (hollow pastry filled with cream or custard) · fa نان خامهای (hollow pastry filled with cream or custard) · fr chou (hollow pastry filled with cream or custard) · el σου (hollow pastry filled with cream or custard) · sv petit-chou (hollow pastry filled with cream or custard) · da flødebolle (hollow pastry filled with cream or custard) · kn ಕ್ರೀಮ್ ಪಫ಼್ (hollow pastry filled with cream or custard) · vi bánh su kem (hollow pastry filled with cream or custard) · cs větrník (hollow pastry filled with cream or custard) · af roompoffertjie (hollow pastry filled with cream or custard) · mr क्रीम पफ (hollow pastry filled with cream or custard) · th ชูอาลาแครม (hollow pastry filled with cream or custard) · cmn 奶油泡芙 (hollow pastry filled with cream or custard) · yue 忌簾泡芙 /忌帘泡芙 (hollow pastry filled with cream or custard) · fi tuulihattu (hollow pastry filled with cream or custard) · it bignè alla crema (hollow pastry filled with cream or custard) · th ครีมพัฟ (hollow pastry filled with cream or custard) · yue 泡芙 (hollow pastry filled with cream or custard) · fr chou à la crème (hollow pastry filled with cream or custard) · et tuuletasku (hollow pastry filled with cream or custard) · es bocadito de nata (hollow pastry filled with cream or custard) · ru патешу (hollow pastry filled with cream or custard) · cmn 泡芙 (hollow pastry filled with cream or custard) · pl ptyś (hollow pastry filled with cream or custard) · nl soesje (hollow pastry filled with cream or custard)