creamed

1. 1
   adjective

   Cooked or prepared with cream as an ingredient.

   The chef ladled creamed mushrooms over the toasted bread.

   Every holiday meal in their house included a dish of creamed onions.

   Note

   Placed before the name of a dish, the adjective tells you cream went into it. Do not confuse it with the baking participle: creamed butter has only been beaten light with sugar and contains no cream at all. The adjective is not comparable, so a dish is either creamed or it isn't, never more creamed.

2. 2
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of cream.

   He creamed the softened butter with sugar until it turned pale.

   Once the eggs had been creamed into the mixture, she folded in the flour.

   Note

   The kitchen and the scoreboard share this form. In baking, creamed butter has been beaten light with sugar. In slang, it shows up mostly in the passive: we were creamed means beaten decisively. Context usually settles which is meant. Cream also has vulgar slang uses, though, so the bare intransitive he creamed is best kept out of polite writing.

   The visitors got creamed in the second half.

   We were creamed in the final, and we deserved it.

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