cream puff

Noun

cream puff (plural cream puffs)

1. A light, hollow pastry typically filled with cream or custard.
2. (figuratively, informal) A weak or ineffectual person.
   • — Oh, Mr. Jackson, I think you're wonderful. You've really got what it takes.
     — Well, I ain't exactly a cream puff.1947, 2 min 55 sec from the start, in My Favorite Brunette
   • You little cream puff Mac Daddy wannabe / Keep dreaming 'cause a Mac you will never be1992, “Warm It Up”, in Totally Krossed Out, performed by Kris Kross
3. (slang) An old motor vehicle in especially good condition.
4. (slang) A weak pitch.
   • So instead of lobbing a cream puff, I kicked up my leg and brought the Ruttlemyer Express.2000, W. P. Kinsella, Baseball Fantastic: Stories
   • Joseph “Stretch” Suba, a batting-practice pitcher, served up “big, fat, medium fast cream puffs for the All-Star hitters […]2011, Paul Dickson, Skip McAfee, The Dickson Baseball Dictionary (Third Edition), page 225
5. (Scotland, slang) A state of mild annoyance or irritation.
   • 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.1992, Jeff Torrington, Swing Hammer Swing!, London: Secker & Warburg, →ISBN, page 338
6. (dated, slang) A gay man.
   • "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...1967, Joan Colebrook, The Cross of Lassitude: Portraits of Five Delinquents, Alfred A. Knopf, page 72
7. (obsolete, slang) An exploding shell.