whipped-creamy en · ADJ
Etymology
From whipped cream + -y.
Meanings
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(informal) Resembling or characteristic of whipped cream.
In short, he was as sensitive to color and what you can do with color as Salvador Dali, who said, “I dream of a film designed only in blacks and whites, and the whole spectrum of grays in between, but shot on color stock.” This would result in the silkiest and most velvety of blacks and the frostiest and whipped-creamiest of whites.
1975, Herman G. Weinberg, “Introduction”, in Stroheim: A Pictorial Record of His Nine Films (Dover Books on Photography, Cinematography and Related Areas), New York, N.Y.: Herman G. Weinberg, →ISBN, page xiii, column 1:[…] but they’re too whipped-creamy for ord’-nary housekeepin’. I keep my flour in a beer-keg, […]
1917, The Green Book Magazine, volume 18, page 684:In my mind, the winning technique/proportion is whatever one is most whipped-creamy in fluffiness, most buttery in flavor.
2015 October 6, Melissa Clark, “In ‘Zahav,’ Michael Solomonov Explores Israeli Food”, in Amanda Hesser, editor, The Essential New York Times Cookbook: The Recipes of Record, 10th anniversary edition, W. W. Norton & Company, published 2021, →ISBN:
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(informal) With whipped cream.
Shosanna takes a whipped-creamy bite of strudel.
2009, Quentin Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds: A Screenplay, Weinstein Books, →ISBN:And then he wheeled over that beautiful pastry cart and we topped off the whole thing with the biggest, juiciest, whipped-creamiest napoleon in the entire city of Washington.
2002 August 9, Wallace J. Gordon, “Fort Meade”, in Soldier* (*Rifleman by Training, Clerk-Typist by Accident. In North Africa, Italy, and Austria), [Bloomington, Ind.]: 1stBooks, →ISBN, page 240:[…] a yard of light green water, adorned with what appeared to be saucers of whipped cream. […] He glared at the absurd whipped-creamy water and staggered under it to the hall, where Bell serenely directed its location.
1910, Josephine Daskam Bacon, The Biography of a Boy, page 33:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| most whipped-creamy | Degree=Sup | lexicographic | |
| whipped-creamier | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| more whipped-creamy | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| whipped creamy | alternative | lexicographic | |
| whipped-creamiest | Degree=Sup | lexicographic |