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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
creampuff

also cream puff, by 1859 as a kind of light confection, from cream (n.) + puff (n.). In figurative sense of "weakling, sissy," it is recorded from 1935.\n\nI 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]

\nAs a salesman's word, "something that is a tremendous bargain," it is from 1940s.
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creampuff

n. (alternative spelling of cream puff English)

Usage examples of "creampuff".

All I knew was that one of them would be getting dropped somewhere between the creampuffs and the éclairs.

You know, almost every day I find some poor woman on a diet and spend a solid hour eating creampuffs and gravies.