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Cream vs Creep - What's the difference?

cream | creep |

As nouns the difference between cream and creep

is that cream is the butterfat/milkfat part of milk which rises to the top; this part when separated from the remainder while creep is the movement of something that creeps (like worms or snails.

As verbs the difference between cream and creep

is that cream is to puree, to blend with a liquifying process while creep is to move slowly with the abdomen close to the ground.

As an adjective cream

is cream-coloured; having a yellowish white colour.

As a proper noun CREEP is

the Committee to Re-elect the President, which raised money for Richard Nixon's campaign for 1972 reelection.

cream

English

(wikipedia cream)

Alternative forms

* creme * creyme

Noun

(en noun)
  • The butterfat/milkfat part of milk which rises to the top; this part when separated from the remainder.
  • :
  • # The liquid separated from milk, possibly with certain other milk products added, and with at least eighteen percent of it milkfat.
  • # The liquid separated from milk containing at least 18 percent milkfat (48% for double cream).
  • A yellowish white colour; the colour of cream.
  • :
  • (label) Frosting, custard, creamer or another substance similar to the oily part of milk or to whipped cream.
  • *2004 , Joey Green, Joey Green's Incredible Country Store , , ISBN 1579548482, page 267:
  • *:Originally the cream filling in Oreo cookies was made with pork lard.
  • (label) The best part of something.
  • :
  • * (fl.1612-1620)
  • *:Welcome, O flower and cream of knights errant.
  • (label) A viscous aqueous oil/fat emulsion with a medicament added, used to apply that medicament to the skin. (compare with ointment)
  • :
  • *(Oliver Goldsmith) (1730-1774)
  • *:In vain she tries her paste and creams , / To smooth her skin or hide its seams.
  • Semen.
  • *2001 , Darwin Porter, Hollywood’s Silent Closet: The Lusty Saga of America’s First Star F*#%er!! (SIC) (novel), Blood Moon Productions, Ltd., ISBN 0-9668030-2-7, page 155,
  • *:He rode me for ten—or was it fifteen?—minutes before one final fuckthrust that filled me completely with his cream .
  • *2003 , Dominique Adair, “Two Days, Three Nights” in Tied with a Bow ,[http://books.google.com/books?id=UwSA6Ay3doMC] Ellora’s Cave Publishing, ISBN 1843607433, page 74,
  • *:He tucked his cock into his pants before rubbing his cream into her breasts in slow, teasing strokes.
  • *2004 , Art Wiederhold, Wild Flowers , iUniverse, ISBN 0595317898, page 158,
  • *:When he did come, he spurted his cream all over the front of Rosalee’s T-shirt and neck.
  • (label) The chrism or consecrated oil used in anointing ceremonies.
  • *, Book V:
  • *:there shall never harlot have happe, by the helpe of Oure Lord, to kylle a crowned Kynge that with Creyme is anoynted.
  • Synonyms

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    Adjective

    (-)
  • Cream-coloured; having a yellowish white colour.
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To puree, to blend with a liquifying process.
  • Cream the vegetables with the olive oil, flour, salt and water mixture .
  • To turn a yellowish white colour; to give something the color of cream.
  • (slang) To obliterate, to defeat decisively.
  • We creamed the opposing team!
  • (intransitive, vulgar, slang) To ejaculate (used of either gender).
  • (transitive, vulgar, slang) To ejaculate in (clothing).
  • (cooking) To rub, stir, or beat (butter) into a light creamy consistency.
  • To skim, or take off by skimming, as cream.
  • (figurative) To take off the best or choicest part of.
  • To furnish with, or as if with, cream.
  • * Mrs. Whitney
  • Creaming the fragrant cups.

    Derived terms

    * barrier cream * Boston cream pie * ceramware * Chantilly cream * clotted cream * cold cream * cream bun * cream cake * cream cheese * cream cracker * cream horn * cream in one's jeans * cream of tartar * cream of the crop * cream puff * cream sauce * cream sherry * cream soda * cream tea * creamcups * creamer * cream-laid * creamy * Devonshire chream * double cream * egg cream * glacier cream * heavy cream * ice cream * light cream * salad cream * shaving cream * sour cream * sun cream * suntan cream * vanishing cream * whipping cream

    See also

    *

    Anagrams

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    creep

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) crepen, from (etyl) .

    Verb

  • To move slowly with the abdomen close to the ground.
  • Lizards and snakes crept over the ground.
  • * 1922 , (Margery Williams), (The Velveteen Rabbit)
  • One evening, while the Rabbit was lying there alone, watching the ants that ran to and fro between his velvet paws in the grass, he saw two strange beings creep out of the tall bracken near him.
  • Of plants, to grow across a surface rather than upwards.
  • To move slowly and quietly in a particular direction.
  • He tried to creep past the guard without being seen.
  • To make small gradual changes, usually in a particular direction.
  • Prices have been creeping up all year.
  • To move in a stealthy or secret manner; to move imperceptibly or clandestinely; to steal in; to insinuate itself or oneself.
  • Old age creeps upon us.
  • * John Locke
  • the sophistry which creeps into most of the books of argument
  • To slip, or to become slightly displaced.
  • The collodion on a negative, or a coat of varnish, may creep in drying.
    The quicksilver on a mirror may creep .
  • To move or behave with servility or exaggerated humility; to fawn.
  • a creeping sycophant
  • * Shakespeare
  • to come as humbly as they used to creep
  • To have a sensation as of insects creeping on the skin of the body; to crawl.
  • The sight made my flesh creep .
  • To drag in deep water with creepers, as for recovering a submarine cable.
  • Synonyms
    * (move slowly with the abdomen close to the ground) crawl * (grow across a surface rather than upwards) * (move slowly and quietly in a particular direction) * (make small gradual changes)
    Derived terms
    * creep up on * creepy / creepy-crawly * give someone the creeps * creep someone out

    Etymology 2

    From the above verb.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The movement of something that creeps (like worms or snails)
  • A relatively small gradual change, variation or deviation (from a planned value) in a measure.
  • A slight displacement of an object: the slight movement of something
  • The gradual expansion or proliferation of something beyond its original goals or boundaries, considered negatively.
  • Christmas creep'''. Feature '''creep'''. Instruction '''creep'''. Mission ' creep
  • (publishing) In sewn books, the tendency of pages on the inside of a quire to stand out farther than those on the outside of it.
  • (materials science) An increase in strain with time; the gradual flow or deformation of a material under stress.
  • (geology) The imperceptible downslope movement of surface rock.
  • (informal, pejorative) An annoying irritating person
  • (informal, pejorative) A frightening and/or disconcerting person, especially one who gives the speaker chills or who induces psychosomatic facial itching.
  • Stop following me, you creep !
  • (agriculture) A barrier with small openings used to keep large animals out while allowing smaller animals to pass through.
  • Derived terms
    * bracket creep * Christmas creep * feature creep * focus creep * function creep ((function creep)) * instruction creep ((instruction creep)) * mission creep ((mission creep)) * requirement creep ((requirement creep)) * scope creep * season creep