cream – English noun declension

English noun forms of cream

Noun: cream
Singularcream
Pluralcreams

Sample Sentences

  • Take 100 ml of cream and 50 grams of sugar…
  • You may have noticed that any time that filling is mentioned on Oreo packaging, it's called "creme." This is no typo. Technically, the creamy filling inside an Oreo is not cream at all: The recipe used actually contains no dairy; as such, the FDA prohibits Nabisco from labeling the product as "cream." [2018 February 13, Rebecca Firsker, "What's Really in Oreo Cream Filling? Well, for One Thing, Not Cream", MyRecipes]
  • I take my coffee with two cream and three sugar.
  • Hundreds of examples remain, still following the same general pattern—maroon, green or chocolate brown, for example, from ground to waist level, then a stale Cheddar cheese shade of cream above. [1962 October, Brian Haresnape, “Focus on B.R. passenger stations”, in Modern Railways, page 253:]
  • Originally the cream filling in Oreo cookies was made with pork lard. [2004, Joey Green, Joey Green's Incredible Country Store, Rodale, →ISBN, page 267:]
  • the cream of the crop
  • the cream of a collection of books or pictures
  • Welcome, O flower and cream of Knights-errant. [1612, Thomas Shelton (translator), Don Quixote (originally by Miguel de Cervantes)]
  • “But the cream of it was," said Norman, pressing a large tortoiseshell-rimmed monocle into his eye, “you don't mind me telling this, Face, do you?” [1918 August, Katherine Mansfield [pseudonym; Kathleen Mansfield Murry], “Bliss”, in Bliss and Other Stories, London: Constable & Company, published 1920, →OCLC, page 124:]
  • […] he can assure the assembled Deans that all this is true, and that the Academy has presently in residence no fewer than a third of the continent’s top thirty juniors, in age brackets all across the board, and that I here, who go by ‘Hal,’ usually, am ‘right up there among the very cream.’ [1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 4:]
  • You look really sunburnt; you should apply some cream.
  • In vain she tries her paste and creams, / To smooth her skin or hide its seams. [1756, Oliver Goldsmith, The Double Transformation:]
  • 2001, Darwin Porter, Hollywood’s Silent Closet: The Lusty Saga of America’s First Star F*#%er!! (novel), Blood Moon Productions, Ltd., →ISBN, page 155,
  • He rode me for ten—or was it fifteen?—minutes before one final fuckthrust that filled me completely with his cream.
  • He tucked his cock into his pants before rubbing his cream into her breasts in slow, teasing strokes. [2003, Dominique Adair, “Two Days, Three Nights”, in Tied with a Bow, Ellora’s Cave Publishing, →ISBN, page 74:]
  • When he did come, he spurted his cream all over the front of Rosalee’s T-shirt and neck. [2004, Art Wiederhold, Wild Flowers, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 158:]
  • there shall never harlot have happe, by the helpe of Oure Lord, to kylle a crowned Kynge that with Creyme is anoynted. [, Book V]

Etymology

1. From Middle English creime, creme, from Old French creme, cresme, blend of Late Latin chrisma (“ointment”) (from Ancient Greek χρῖσμα (khrîsma, “unguent”)), and Late Latin crāmum (“cream”), 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”)). Doublet of crema and crème. Displaced native Old English rēam (“cream”) (> modern ream).
2. 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 21 CFR 131.3(a). See: Middle English Nouns 'creime, creme', Ancient Greek Nouns 'χρῖσμα', Dutch Nouns 'schram'.

Verbs referencing "cream"

Zulu Nouns ukhilimu.