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Definition of cream puff in English: cream puffnoun 1A cake made of puff pastry filled with cream. Example sentencesExamples - He had dreamed of her last night and had awoken aroused and embarrassed and with an intense hunger for cream puffs.
- On the counter, cream puffs hid under a frosted glass dome beside the box of marshmallow mice.
- It's horribly unglamorous and completely delicious, the sort of thing that makes you want to dive headlong into the bowl - and then have cream puffs for dessert.
- Don't let a sugar-laden cookie, bar, pudding, cheesecake or delectable cream puff pass your lips for seven days.
- There was ice cream, Jello, cream puffs, pies, doughnuts, coconut cake.
- I made a chocolate pudding from scratch, and then used it to fill cream puffs.
- If you want to find someone attractive, don't watch them eat a cream puff.
- And, as anyone who has heard the call of a cream puff at 3 a.m. will not be surprised to hear, eating beloved foods stimulates some of the same neural pathways as addictive drugs like cocaine.
- Simon didn't seem to follow until I rounded the corner to the freezers and there he was picking out a box of those mini cream puffs.
- The cream puff became popular during the French food mania of the 1960s, said a culinary librarian.
- ‘Your cream puffs are way better,’ I claimed firmly, thinking how lame I was.
- One of them directs you to search for extremely pleasurable food, notably high-energy bundles of fat and sugar like cream puffs and chocolate bars.
- The coffee cream puff devoured by mum also got the thumbs-up.
- One must down eleven lemons per day, while another says she may eat only cream puffs!
2informal A weak or ineffectual person. Example sentencesExamples - Oh he's a cream puff compared to other boys I've dated.
- And make no mistake, the judges are not cream puffs.
- I can do that first act as this big cream puff, like nothing's wrong and I love playing games as an actor.
- 2.1offensive A male homosexual.
- 2.2US as modifier Denoting something of little consequence or difficulty.
Example sentencesExamples - A top woman player used to be able to get away with a middling first serve and a cream puff second serve.
- Yeah, it was nice, but I could rattle off double-digit, middle-of-the-road teams that would have won 10 games against that cream-puff schedule.
- It's a cream puff of a release, which means it's small and sweet.
- The presidential debates increasingly smell like rig jobs with preconceived answers to cream-puff questions.
3North American informal A second-hand car or other item maintained in excellent condition. a twelve-year-old Cadillac—a real cream puff
Definition of cream puff in US English: cream puffnounˈkrim ˌpəfˈkrēm ˌpəf 1A cake made of light pastry filled with cream. Example sentencesExamples - Simon didn't seem to follow until I rounded the corner to the freezers and there he was picking out a box of those mini cream puffs.
- It's horribly unglamorous and completely delicious, the sort of thing that makes you want to dive headlong into the bowl - and then have cream puffs for dessert.
- Don't let a sugar-laden cookie, bar, pudding, cheesecake or delectable cream puff pass your lips for seven days.
- On the counter, cream puffs hid under a frosted glass dome beside the box of marshmallow mice.
- There was ice cream, Jello, cream puffs, pies, doughnuts, coconut cake.
- One of them directs you to search for extremely pleasurable food, notably high-energy bundles of fat and sugar like cream puffs and chocolate bars.
- One must down eleven lemons per day, while another says she may eat only cream puffs!
- He had dreamed of her last night and had awoken aroused and embarrassed and with an intense hunger for cream puffs.
- And, as anyone who has heard the call of a cream puff at 3 a.m. will not be surprised to hear, eating beloved foods stimulates some of the same neural pathways as addictive drugs like cocaine.
- If you want to find someone attractive, don't watch them eat a cream puff.
- I made a chocolate pudding from scratch, and then used it to fill cream puffs.
- The cream puff became popular during the French food mania of the 1960s, said a culinary librarian.
- The coffee cream puff devoured by mum also got the thumbs-up.
- ‘Your cream puffs are way better,’ I claimed firmly, thinking how lame I was.
2informal A weak or ineffectual person. Example sentencesExamples - And make no mistake, the judges are not cream puffs.
- Oh he's a cream puff compared to other boys I've dated.
- I can do that first act as this big cream puff, like nothing's wrong and I love playing games as an actor.
- 2.1US as modifier Denoting something of little consequence or difficulty.
Example sentencesExamples - The presidential debates increasingly smell like rig jobs with preconceived answers to cream-puff questions.
- Yeah, it was nice, but I could rattle off double-digit, middle-of-the-road teams that would have won 10 games against that cream-puff schedule.
- It's a cream puff of a release, which means it's small and sweet.
- A top woman player used to be able to get away with a middling first serve and a cream puff second serve.
3North American informal A secondhand car or other item maintained in excellent condition.
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