creampuff

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
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
5. (Scotland, slang) A state of mild annoyance or irritation.
   • to be in the cream puff
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

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