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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
creamer
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Farris stirred in sugar and coffee creamer from their packets.
▪ In general, nondairy products such as whipped toppings coffee creamers, and margarine are replacing the corresponding dairy products.
▪ Instant coffee with creamer already mixed in?
▪ It has eight plates, eight cups and saucers, a coffee pot, a creamer and a sugar bowl.
▪ Lois stared down at the coffee table, which already had a creamer and sugar bowl and napkins set out.
▪ Op tion ally, with one teaspoon nondairy creamer.
▪ The ones described here are the coffee creamers, toppings, and margarines.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
creamer

creamer \creamer\ n. a small pitcher for serving cream; as, the coffee set included a sugar bowl and creamer.

Syn: cream pitcher.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
creamer

1858, "dish for skimming cream," agent noun from cream (v.). As "a pitcher for cream," from 1877.

Wiktionary
creamer

n. 1 A jug for holding cream. 2 A separator for removing cream from milk to leave skimmed milk. 3 A nondairy product that adds a creamy texture to coffee.

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WordNet
creamer

n. a small pitcher for serving cream [syn: cream pitcher]

Wikipedia
Creamer

Creamer may refer to:

Creamer (vessel)

A creamer is a small pitcher or jug designed for holding cream or milk to be served with tea or coffee in the Western tradition. Creamers can be earthenware or porcelain, but also made of silver or other metals; a creamer is an obligatory part of a coffee or tea set, whether in silver or ceramics.

Usage examples of "creamer".

She pitilessly dosed them with her tracts and her medicine, she dismissed Creamer, she installed Rodgers, and soon stripped Miss Crawley of even the semblance of authority.

Blanche Creamer, a lax, tumble-to-pieces, Greuze-ish looking blonde, whom the Widow hated because the men took to her, was purgatoried between the two old Doctors, and could see all the looks that passed between Dick Venner and his cousin.

Blanche Creamer raged inwardly at first to find herself between the two old gentlemen of the party.

Blanche Creamer, who had diffused herself over three-quarters of a sofa and beckoned him to the remaining fourth.

Blanche Creamer, and incidentally to show Elsie that he could make himself acceptable to other women, if not to herself.

Blanche Creamer, who had taken such a fancy to him, or a chat with the Widow Rowens, who was very lively in her talk, for all her sombre colors, and reminded him a good deal of same of his earlier friends, the senoritas,--all these were distractions, to be sure, but not enough to keep his fiery spirit from fretting itself in longings for more dangerous excitements.

In the kitchen there was a welcome pack of coffee, powdered creamer and sugar.

Henry Creamer has seven patents on steam traps, and more than a dozen among the number have patented as many as five different inventions.

He had found out what was in non-dairy creamer and would have nothing to do with it.

He added creamer to the coffee, relaxed, and looked at a large photograph hanging on the wall behind the counter.

She turned and poured herself a cup of decaf and loaded non fat creamer into her mug before sitting at the round table.

This charming pig creamer has an adorable French hat and is only slightly chipped.

Cream will flow through the slightly chipped lips of the charming pig creamer in the adorable hat, and our feet will slip into the boots we had no use for earlier.

Kerrie set three mugs on a tray beside the gurgling coffeemaker, then grabbed the creamer and sugar bowl and started toward him.

Kerrie deposited spoons and a black ceramic sugar bowl and creamer on the gray place mat in the center of the table, then sat across from Roman.