cream puff
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3.0
- noun
- /kriːm pʌf/
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profiterol
- For dessert, we enjoyed fluffy cream puffs filled with sweet whipped cream and dusted with powdered sugar.
- chocolate cream puffs
- cream puffs with chocolate sauce
- make cream puffs
Examples
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My husband had the onion soup, which was his favorite, though the cream puff was mine.
Blog text (14) -
Cherry pies, cream puffs, ice cream, treacle tarts.
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There are cream puffs at the end of the line.
Fiction book (1991) -
My sister had talked about the cream puffs for years, always wanting to go back for more.
Fiction book (1992) -
I got some cream puffs and some animal crackers and some milk and stuff.
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Inside were two deluxe chocolate cream puffs.
Fiction book (1992) -
I made extra cream puffs and went heavy on the use of purple sprinkles today in the bakery where I work.
Blog text (5) -
He had bought four chocolate cream puffs for the whole family, even though they had cost two dollars apiece.
Fiction book (1992) -
He went to a pastry shop run by another Spaniard in the neighborhood and bought some cream puffs.
Academic text (2007) -
Warren, who roved to glut, gazed in absolute adoration at her crepes, casseroles, and cream puffs.
Fiction book (1992)
Synonyms
How Sweet
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound is transparently built from 'cream' (a dairy filling) + 'puff' (a light hollow pastry), so its meaning — a light pastry filled with cream — is directly inferable from the constituents. This noun–noun composition is a common, literal naming pattern (and has clear parallels in many languages), making it immediately understandable to a B1 learner who knows both words.
Etymology
Cream puff comes from the pastry's look: a light, airy puff filled with cream. So the name simply describes the food as a 'soft', hollow pastry filled with cream.