cream puff

See also: creampuff

English

cream puff (plural cream puffs)

A light, hollow pastry typically filled with cream or custard.
(figuratively, informal) A weak or ineffectual person.
- 1947, My Favorite Brunette, 2 min 55 sec from the start:
  — Oh, Mr. Jackson, I think you're wonderful. You've really got what it takes.
  — Well, I ain't exactly a cream puff.
- 2005, Jerry Remy, Watching Baseball: Discovering the Game Within the Game (page 298)
  Everybody wants to be liked, whether they are a hard-ass or a cream puff. That's very difficult in baseball.
(baseball, slang) A weak hit.
- 2000, W. P. Kinsella, Baseball Fantastic: Stories
  So instead of lobbing a cream puff, I kicked up my leg and brought the Ruttlemyer Express.
- 2011, Paul Dickson, Skip McAfee, The Dickson Baseball Dictionary (Third Edition) (page 225)
  Joseph “Stretch” Suba, a batting-practice pitcher, served up “big, fat, medium fast cream puffs for the All-Star hitters […]
(slang) An old motor vehicle in especially good condition.

hollow pastry filled with cream or custard

Catalan: profiterola f
Chinese:
Cantonese: 忌簾泡芙 (gei⁶ lim¹ pou⁵ fu⁴), 泡芙 (pou⁵ fu⁴)
Mandarin: 奶油泡芙 (nǎiyóu pàofú), 泡芙 (zh) (pàofú)
Czech: větrník (cs) m
Danish: flødebolle (da) c
Dutch: soesje (nl) n
Finnish: tuulihattu (fi)
French: chou à la crème (fr) m, chou (fr) m
German: Windbeutel (de) m, (Austria) Brandteigkrapferl n, (Switzerland) Ofenküchlein n
Greek: σου (el) n (sou)
Hebrew: פַּחְזָנִית‎ (he) f (pachzanít)
Indonesian: kue sus
Italian: bignè m, bignè alla panna m, bignè alla crema m
Japanese: シュークリーム (shū-kurīmu)
Kannada: ಕ್ರೀಮ್ ಪಫ಼್ (krīm paf)
Korean: 슈크림 (syukeurim)
Marathi: क्रीम पफ m (krīm paph)
Persian: نان خامه‌ای‎ (nân xâme-i)
Polish: ptyś (pl) m
Spanish: bocadito de nata m, petisú m
Swedish: petit-chou c
Thai: ชูอาลาแครม (chuu-aa-laa-krɛɛm), ครีมพัฟ (kriim-páf)
Vietnamese: bánh su kem