cream puff

• creampuff

cream puff (plural cream puffs)

1. A light, hollow pastry typically filled with cream or custard.
2. (figuratively, informal) A weak or ineffectual person.
   • 1947, My Favorite Brunette, 2 min 55 sec from the start:

     — Oh, Mr. Jackson, I think you're wonderful. You've really got what it takes.
     — Well, I ain't exactly a cream puff.

   • 2005, Jerry Remy, Watching Baseball: Discovering the Game Within the Game, page 298:

     Everybody wants to be liked, whether they are a hard-ass or a cream puff. That's very difficult in baseball.

3. (baseball, slang) A weak hit.
   • 2000, W. P. Kinsella, Baseball Fantastic: Stories:

     So instead of lobbing a cream puff, I kicked up my leg and brought the Ruttlemyer Express.

   • 2011, Paul Dickson; Skip McAfee, The Dickson Baseball Dictionary (Third Edition), page 225:

     Joseph “Stretch” Suba, a batting-practice pitcher, served up “big, fat, medium fast cream puffs for the All-Star hitters […]

4. (slang) An old motor vehicle in especially good condition.

• (light pastry): cream cake