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| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
| a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare. |
"I remember my first campaign. My opponent called me a cream puff. That's what he said. Well, I rushed out and got the baker's union to endorse me." [Sen. Claiborne Pell, D-R.I., 1987]As a salesman's word, "something that is a tremendous bargain," it is from 1940s.
cream (krēm)
n.
The yellowish fatty component of unhomogenized milk that tends to accumulate at the surface.
A pharmaceutical preparation consisting of a semisolid emulsion of either the oil-in-water or the water-in-oil type, ordinarily intended for topical use.
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cream (in) (one's) pants definitionand cream (one's) jeans
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