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creaming

/ˈkɹiːmɪŋ/

creaming is the present participle and gerund of cream.

Noun

creaming (countable and uncountable, plural creamings)

  1. A cookery technique in which fat and sugar are mixed together with the incorporation of air to form a cream.
  2. The act by which something is creamed.
    • The number of creamings necessary to reduce the impurities to a negligible amount was estimated from the relative volumes of the upper and lower layers, by assuming that the soluble impurities were uniformly distributed between the layers […]1933, Bureau of Standards Journal of Research, volume 10, page 482

Meaning of cream

Verb

cream (third-person singular simple present creams, present participle creaming, simple past and past participle creamed)

  1. (transitive) To puree, to blend with a liquifying process.
    • Cream the vegetables with the olive oil, flour, salt and water mixture.
  2. (transitive) To turn a yellowish white color; to give something the color of cream.
  3. (slang, transitive) To obliterate, to defeat decisively.
    • We creamed the opposing team!
  4. (intransitive, slang, vulgar) To ejaculate or become wet (used of either gender).
    • Danny Zuko: You are supreme / The chicks’ll cream / For grease lightning.1971, Jim Jacobs, Warren Casey, “Grease Lightnin’”, in Grease
  5. (broadly, intransitive, slang, vulgar) To be very enthusiastic about or attracted to something (used especially of women).
  6. (slang, transitive, vulgar) To ejaculate in (clothing or a bodily orifice).

See all 23 meanings of cream

Forms of creaming

pluralcreamings

Words formed from creaming

Phrases with creaming

Words that rhyme with creaming

Questions about creaming

What does creaming mean?
Creaming means a cookery technique in which fat and sugar are mixed together with the incorporation of air to form a cream.
What is creaming the present participle and gerund of?
Creaming is the present participle and gerund of cream.
What part of speech is creaming?
Creaming is a noun.
How do you pronounce creaming?
Creaming is pronounced /ˈkɹiːmɪŋ/.
What is the plural of creaming?
The plural of creaming is creamings.

Words near creaming in the dictionary

  1. creamies
  2. creamiest
  3. creamily
  4. creaminess
  5. creaminesses
  6. creaming
  7. creaming in one's jeans
  8. creaming in one's pants
  9. creaming off
  10. creaming one's jeans
  11. creaming one's pants

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