cream puff
noun
a nearly hollow shell made from choux pastry and filled with custard or whipped cream.
creampuff
-
a variation of
cream puff.
Example Sentences
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It doesn’t make sense to trade a league game for non-conference creampuff that won’t generate ticket sales or TV ratings.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 20, 2023
Just when it looked as if the Bruins might choke on a creampuff, they swallowed hard and could give a weary smile.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2022
Filmmaker Richard Curtis’ witty, romantic creampuff that weaves together stories featuring, among many, Hugh Grant, Emma Thompson, Bill Nighy, Keira Knightley and the late, great Alan Rickman.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 30, 2017
The car on your street that hasn’t been moved, or even cleared, since the first storm looks like the same creampuff glacier as all the other ones on Twitter.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 11, 2015
“Put it off three minutes, can’t you?” says I, lookin’ over the French pastry tray and spearin’ a frosted creampuff that was decorated up with sugar flowers until it looked like a bride’s bouquet.
From Odd Numbers Being Further Chronicles of Shorty McCabe by Sewell Ford
