a. [f. CREAM sb.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 as newly-cut marble.
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, Physiol. 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-colored: often as a qualification of white, yellow.
The word has a connotation of richness or softness which is absent from cream-colored.
1845. Florist’s Jrnl., 162. The Roses in pots attracted great attention … Nemesis, fine rose; Belle Allemande, large creamy yellow.
1880. ‘Vernon 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.
