creampuff

creampuff (n.)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. 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.