creamy, a.
(ˈkriːmɪ)
[f. cream n.2 + -y1.]
1. Characterized by, containing, or abounding in cream.
| 1618 Chapman Hesiod ii. 333 Eat The creamy wafer. 1725 Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v. Milk, When they are old, their Milk is not so creamy and it is drier. 1861 L. L. Noble Icebergs 309 The milk was creamy, and the eggs fresh. |
2. Resembling cream in some quality: a. Of the general appearance or consistence of cream.
| 1610 Markham Masterp. i. xiv. 38 If it be extraordinary white, and as it were, creamy, then it is a signe the horse hath weake veines. 1832 Tennyson Lotos-Eaters, Choric Song v, To watch the..tender curving lines of creamy spray. 1842 A. Combe Phys. Digestion (ed. 4) 289 A yellow residue of a creamy consistence began to flow from the wound. |
b. fig. Soft and rich, luscious.
| a 1625 Fletcher Q. Corinth iii. i, Your creamy words but cozen. 1780 Cowper Table Talk 510 Verse..Without a creamy smoothness has no charms. 1859 Sala Gas-light & D. ii. 18 His creamiest jokes are met with immovable stolidity. 1860 O. W. Holmes Prof. Breakf.-t. ii. (Paterson) 47 A woman with a creamy voice. |
c. Cream-coloured: often as a qualification of white, yellow.
The word has a connotation of richness or softness which is absent from cream-coloured.
| 1845 Florist's Jrnl. 162 The Roses in pots attracted great attention..Nemesis, fine rose; Belle Allemande, large creamy yellow. 1880 V. Lee Stud. Italy ii. 102 The thickest and creamiest paper. 1885 E. Arnold Secret of Death 4 All around that temple cooed The creamy doves. |