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cream puff

/kreem-puhf/US // ˈkrim ˌpʌf //

奶油泡芙,奶油酥,奶油膨松,奶油蛋糕

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a nearly hollow shell made from choux pastry and filled with custard or whipped cream.
    • : Slang. a weak or timid person.a gay man.
    • : Slang. a vehicle or machine that has been kept in unusually good condition or is very easy to operate: Wow, this old Rolls drives like a dream. What a cream puff!

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Examples

  • But Huckabee (akin to Elizabeth Warren on the left) is like an ice cream sundae.

  • Serve with the warm sauce and your choice of ice cream, whipped cream, or yogurt.

  • In the bowl of an electric mixer, cream the butter and brown sugar until light and fluffy.

  • On one summer lunch hour, Donna Ann Levonuk, 50, lifted a tub of diaper cream priced at $43.98—and then stashed it in her purse.

  • The Plaza Hotel cooked a fancy-pants latke with red wine braised oxtail, horseradish sunchoke cream, and crispy kale.

  • They had been permitted to sit up till after the ice-cream, which naturally marked the limit of human indulgence.

  • It was a white silk, with an immense train, of course, and without overskirt—simply caught up in a great puff behind.

  • It curled and twisted in the embers as if it had been a living thing; a puff of smoke, a pungent odour, and it was gone.

  • The horse made a spring to one side, and the beautiful new pipe was broken before the old hero had taken a single puff.

  • "I have had a letter from your friend," she remarked, as she poured a little cream into Edna's cup and handed it to her.