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Vinony

cream puff

noun

  1. a shell of light pastry filled with whipped cream, custard, or ice cream
  2. an ineffectual person
  3. a weakling
  4. something trifling, inconsiderable, or easily dealt with
  5. an old, especially secondhand car in very good condition
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Wiktionary

noun

  1. A light, hollow pastry typically filled with cream or custard.
  2. A weak or ineffectual person.

    “— Oh, Mr. Jackson, I think you're wonderful. You've really got what it takes. — Well, I ain't exactly a cream puff.”

    “You little cream puff Mac Daddy wannabe / Keep dreaming 'cause a Mac you will never be”

  3. An old motor vehicle in especially good condition.
  4. A weak pitch.

    “So instead of lobbing a cream puff, I kicked up my leg and brought the Ruttlemyer Express.”

    “Joseph “Stretch” Suba, a batting-practice pitcher, served up “big, fat, medium fast cream puffs for the All-Star hitters […]”

  5. A state of mild annoyance or irritation.

    “to be in the cream puff”

    “'You still in the cream puff, or what?' I shook my head. No, I wasn't in the huff.”

  6. A gay man.

    “"Why'm I here? You ask that Big Guinea why I'm here? . . . He thinks I'm a ruff-tuff cream puff and that the only way I'm goin' to learn my lesson is by puttin' me away. That's why I'm here. Well, he got to think different that's all. He'd say I was a whore, and now my test says I'm negative ... So I guess he's got another think coming . . ."”

  7. An exploding shell.