creampuff

creampuff
creampuff also cream puff, by 1859 as a kind of light confection, from CREAM (Cf. cream) + PUFF (Cf. puff). In figurative sense of "weakling, sissy," it is recorded from 1935.
I remember my first campaign. My opponent called me a cream puff. That's what he said. Well, I rushed out and got the baker's union to endorse me. [Sen. Claiborne Pell, D-R.I., 1987]
As a salesman's word, "something that is a tremendous bargain," it is from 1940s.

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