dollop of cream
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- noun
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porción de crema
- She topped her dessert with a generous dollop of cream to make it more delicious.
Examples
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For breakfast, he added a dollop of cream to his fresh fruit salad.
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However, I particularly like it with homemade chicken or ham stock and a dollop of cream.
Blog text (23) -
(I have promised myself to cut back on sugar in tea, which I did not used to add routinely.) The tea makers recommend a dollop of cream or milk for this tea.
Blog text (9) -
One morning he came into the kitchen, whistling, happy, intending to skim a dollop of cream for his coffee from the clot of it in the neck of one of the bottles of raw milk that Martha had bought from a neighbor up the road.
Fiction book (1996) -
The chef recommends a dollop of cream on your soup for added richness.
Synonyms
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Light, fluffy dairy topping made by beating cream until it holds soft peaks
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Morphology
The meaning is directly and transparently derived from combining 'dollop' (a small amount of a soft substance) with 'of cream' which specifies the substance; together they literally describe a small serving of cream. This simple noun + of + noun composition is a common, cross-linguistic pattern and follows normal English noun-phrase semantics, so a learner who knows the constituent words will readily understand it.
Etymology
Dollop of cream comes from the word dollop, which may have started as a word for a soft lump you drop on food. Imagine spooning a loose blob of cream onto a scone, not neat but tasty, so dollop of cream means 'a small, shapeless amount of cream' used as a topping.