单词 | creamy |
释义 | creamy (once / 2714 pages) adj Creamy things are like cream, the thick off-white fatty stuff that rises to the top of fresh milk. Something that’s creamy is the color or the consistency of cream. Creamy food is usually delicious. A recipe might tell you to beat butter, sugar, and eggs until they're creamy, or completely mixed into a rich, thick substance. At the paint store, you could ask for a white that's not too stark, but is more creamy, the color of melted vanilla ice cream. Creamy comes from the Old French cresme, "holy oil." WORD FAMILYcreamy: creamier, creamiest, creamily, creaminess, creamy-colored+/cream: cream-colored, creamed, creamer, creamery, creaming, creams, creamy/creamer: creamers/creamery: creameries USAGE EXAMPLESA northern Italian rice dish cooked in broth to a creamy consistency, risotto is most often served as a first course. Seattle Times(Dec 28, 2016) Try it with a creamy pastry dessert or with blueberry pancakes on New Year’s morning. Washington Post(Dec 23, 2016) This creamy delight is a favorite at Spike Mendelsohn's burger chain, and with good reason. Washington Post(Dec 14, 2016) 1adj of the color of cream creamy translucent pebbles Syn chromatic being or having or characterized by hue 2adj thick like cream Syn thick relatively dense in consistency |
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