cream puff

Definitions

1. A light, hollow pastry typically filled with cream or custard.
2. A weak or ineffectual person.
   figuratively, informal
3. An old motor vehicle in especially good condition.
   slang
4. A weak pitch.
   slang
5. A state of mild annoyance or irritation.
   Scotland, slang
6. A gay man.
   dated, slang
7. An exploding shell.
   obsolete, slang

Equivalents

14 more languages

Catalàprofiterola

Češtinavětrník

Danskflødebolle

Ελληνικάσου

Eestituuletasku

Suomituulihattu

Italianobignèbignè alla cremabignè alla panna

日本語シュークリーム

한국어슈크림

Nederlandssoesje

Polskiptyśptysiowywietrznik

Русскийпатешушу

Türkçeprofiterol

Tiếng Việtbánh su kem

Examples

“— Oh, Mr. Jackson, I think⟳ you're wonderful. You've really got what it takes. — Well, I ain't exactly a cream puff.”

“You little cream puff Mac Daddy wannabe / Keep⟳ dreaming 'cause a Mac you will never be”

“Everybody wants to be liked, whether they are a hard-ass or a cream puff. That's very difficult in baseball.”

“So instead of lobbing a cream puff, I kicked up my leg and brought the Ruttlemyer Express⟳.”

“Joseph “Stretch⟳” Suba, a batting-practice pitcher, served up “big, fat, medium fast cream puffs for the All-Star hitters […]”

“to be in the cream puff”

“'You still in the cream puff, or what?' I shook my head. No, I wasn't in the huff.”

“"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 . . ."”

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