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sweet cream

sweet cream noun: cream: the oily part of milk that rises to the top.

Noun

sweet cream (usually uncountable, plural sweet creams)

  1. (UK, dated, usually) Cream: the oily part of milk that rises to the top.

Forms of sweet cream

pluralsweet creams

Origin of sweet cream

From sweet + cream, by analogy with the contrasting sour cream.

Questions about sweet cream

What does sweet cream mean?
Sweet cream means cream: the oily part of milk that rises to the top.
What part of speech is sweet cream?
Sweet cream is a noun.
What is the plural of sweet cream?
The plural of sweet cream is sweet creams.

Words near sweet cream in the dictionary

  1. sweet clover
  2. sweet clovers
  3. sweet coltsfoot
  4. sweet corn
  5. sweet corns
  6. sweet cream
  7. sweet creams
  8. sweet crude
  9. sweet dreams
  10. sweet F A
  11. sweet FA

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