creaming
/ˈkɹiːmɪŋ/
creaming is the present participle and gerund of cream.
Noun
creaming (countable and uncountable, plural creamings)
- A cookery technique in which fat and sugar are mixed together with the incorporation of air to form a cream.
- 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)
- To puree, to blend with a liquifying process.
- Cream the vegetables with the olive oil, flour, salt and water mixture.
- To turn a yellowish white color; to give something the color of cream.
- To obliterate, to defeat decisively.
- We creamed the opposing team!
- 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
- To be very enthusiastic about or attracted to something (used especially of women).
- To ejaculate in (clothing or a bodily orifice).
Forms of creaming
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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
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: creaming (page history and authors); cream (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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