Meaning of cream puff | Babel Free

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

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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