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whip-creamy en · ADJ

Etymology

From whip cream + -y.

Meanings

1. (informal) Resembling or characteristic of whip cream.
   • When you wash your hands, and rub them with the soap sheet, the water dissolves the soap and you have the nicest, smoothest, whip-creamiest lather you could ask for. 1949 April 8, Linda Bruce, “Window Shopping: Downtown Store’s Demonstration Features Story of Nylon from Crystal to Garment”, in The Calgary Herald, 66th year, Calgary, Alta., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 7, column 4:
   • A commercial dating to the late 1960s advertised, “Cool Whip has all the good old-fashioned taste with lots less calories than whipped cream you have to make,” implying that making fresh real cream was too much trouble. See cream. The product was shown being used on fresh fruit and strawberry shortcake. By 1992 a TV commercial featured the jingle “Cool Whip’s the one, with the whip-creamy taste,” and the product was shown in pudding parfaits and as a topping for waffles. 2015, Robert Sietsema, “Cool Whip”, in Darra Goldstein, editor, The Oxford Companion to Sugar and Sweets, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 188, column 1:
   • In the pool, something is poking up out of the whip-creamy froth: a black nose, a long snout, a flat head, two tufted ears. 2008, Ysabeau S. Wilce, Flora’s Dare: How a Girl of Spirit Gambles All to Expand Her Vocabulary, Confront a Bouncing Boy Terror, and Try to Save Califa from a Shaky Doom (Despite Being Confined to Her Room), Orlando, Fla.: Harcourt, →ISBN, page 477:
2. (informal) With whip cream.
   • The cheesecake was flaky rather than soggy, the mousse (of which I had a bite) extremely rich and the strawberry pie about the whip-creamiest I’ve ever seen. 1978 March 30, Stanley Gilliam, “Eating Out: You can go home for brunch”, in The Sacramento Bee, volume 240, number 39,884, Sacramento, Calif., →ISSN, →OCLC, page E4, column 3:
   • These ladies will examine the entire menu, comment extensively on each item, contemplate as deeply as a Hindu guru, and finally order a wedge of whip-creamy cake with a glass of cold water. 1969, Temple Fielding, Fielding’s Travel Guide to Europe, New York, N.Y.: Fielding Publications, →LCCN, page 652:
   • He nodded without seeming to listen and ate from a tall glass of whip-creamy dessert. 1968, Herbert Kastle, The Movie Maker, [New York, N.Y.]: Bernard Geis Associates, →LCCN, page 344:

Forms

Antonyms

whipped creamless

Synonyms

whipped-creamy · whip-creamed · whipped-creamed · whipped-creamy