cream
A yellowish white color; the color of cream.
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Born ~1929 · 1 year of recorded useSeen in the wild
Chocolate yogurt cake topped with chocolate sour cream icing. Ready to go to friends this evening.
Oh, rhubarb ice cream...I should try that. I have an ice cream maker and some plants outside.
Why not? My parents are both gone now -- but if I could have them back for just a night, I'd make them ice cream & anything else they wanted.
I've been reheating my coffee in a cauldron and it's great because you can easily add stuff to it in there, cream, chocolate, cayenne, eye of newt Feels right
That would be my choice. It is my perfect ice cream 😊
📜 This word in 1898 dialectexpand
Written kreme I.W.1 [krim, kriam, w.Cy. krem.]
Joseph Wright, English Dialect Dictionary (1898–1905)
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A yellowish white color; the color of cream.
“Chocolate yogurt cake topped with chocolate sour cream icing. Ready to go to friends this evening.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Oh, rhubarb ice cream...I should try that. I have an ice cream maker and some plants outside.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“I've been reheating my coffee in a cauldron and it's great because you can easily add stuff to it in there, cream, chocolate, cayenne, eye of newt Feels right”
— Bluesky· May 2026“From a glass, always. But ice cream? Straight out of the container!”
— Bluesky· May 2026“I guess they figure they can’t fail by tossing some eggs, sugar, and cream in random portions over some old bread. And a fruit galette is always my go to for a fast and impressive dessert. Now you’ve got me thinking of the blueberries and apples in my kitchen…”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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The butterfat or milkfat part of milk which rises to the top; this part when separated from the remainder.
Take 100 ml of cream and 50 grams of sugar…
“Why not? My parents are both gone now -- but if I could have them back for just a night, I'd make them ice cream & anything else they wanted.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“That would be my choice. It is my perfect ice cream 😊”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Why am I up in the middle of the night making sugar free ice cream for my parents? 🤔”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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(informal) Frosting, custard, creamer or another substance similar to the oily part of milk or to whipped cream.
the cream of the crop
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