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1 : a sweet liqueur. 2 : cream or a preparation made with or resembling cream used in cooking. The word comes from French crème, which means... cream! Cream, in English, is a word that means "that dairy product that comes from the fatty stuff from milk." Cream is used in common foods like whipped cream and sour cream.
Yeah, we all need someone we can cream on // Yeah and if you want to, well you can cream on me. On the Cambridge dictionary, I only find this meaning for cream as a verb. to make food into a smooth, thick liquid. And for the phrasal verb "cream off" (not on): to remove the best part of something or the best people in a group and use them for ...
Cream of the crop started out meaning semi-literally best of the crop. The extension to mean the best of anything seems to have occurred in the second quarter of the 20th century. There is an earlier expression, crème de la crème (often spelled creme de la creme), which is a borrowing from French (where it means, literally, cream of the cream).
1929 Princeton Alumni Weekly 24 May 981/1 Say, if he opens his mouth, I'll cream him. Note that they write this use is transf--the OED uses this to mean transferred sense. That is, another meaning of the verb cream was applied to a new situation. The OED writes that the associated meaning of cream is applied to baking: a.
We just say, I want ice cream. My point is when something is un-modifiable, that means it exists as a single unit. It may appear to have two words, but those two words, spoken separately, would have different meanings, so that particular word needs to be spoken in one breath to convey a particular meaning. So 'ice cream' is a one word.
1640s, from Fr. à la mode (15c.), lit. "in the fashion". In 17c., sometimes nativized as all-a-mode. Cookery sense of a dessert served with ice cream is 1903, Amer.Eng. Finally, the PhraseFinder has this: Americans are familiar with this phrase as meaning 'with ice cream'.
Of course, given that we're talking about cream, you'd probably end up with an amount at the lower end of what's reasonable, rather than any specific quantity like 1/8th of a teaspoon. i.e. "a dash of cream" will be lot more volume than "a dash of hot sauce" when you're talking to another human, not a robot strictly applying a definition of a dash.
0. Both sour cream and soured cream may be understood in two ways: as an edible food that has intentionally been made or allowed to become sour, or as an unpalatable food that had originated as fresh or sweet cream and was meant to be used in that form but then turned or went bad. 'Sour cream' as a desirable food.
Ice cream is typically eaten. If you melted the ice cream, you could probably drink it. Similar foods get differing treatment and the pattern usually comes down utensils: You drink through a straw (slurpies, shakes) You eat with a spoon (ice cream, pudding, soup) You drink from a bowl by tipping it to your mouth (soup, broth)
Charles Kingsley used one old British form in Westward Ho! in 1855: “there are more ways of killing a cat than choking it with cream”. Other versions include “there are more ways of killing a cat than by choking it with butter”, and “there are more ways of killing a dog than choking him with pudding”.