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cooky

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A small flat sweet baked treat often eaten with tea or milk

noun
/ˈkʊki/

: galleta

The children were excited to decorate their cookys with colorful icing and sprinkles.

Examples

Get me some Kung pao chicKen... no vegetables, not too spicy... all white meat, extra fortune cooKies.

King's Ransom (2005)
Kung pao chicKen without vegetables... not too spicy, all white meat... with extra fortune cooKies.

King's Ransom (2005)
After dinner, we enjoyed a plate of freshly baked cookys with chocolate chips.
For her birthday, I bought a box of assorted cookys, including peanut butter and oatmeal raisin.

Synonyms

vscooky

774 1.0

A small flat sweet baked treat often with chocolate chips or nuts

is the alternate spelling for the same small sweet baked cake

biscuit

vscooky

74 1.0

A small sweet flat cake that you eat as a snack

is an alternate spelling covering softer versions rather than crisp British ones

How Sweet

cake

850 1.0

cooky

1.0

biscuit

74 1.0

Surface Forms

cooky singular

cookys plural

cookies plural

cookie singular

Morphology

cooky = cookie (transparent) = cook + y

This spelling is an orthographic variant of 'cookie' and carries the same meaning, so knowledge of 'cookie' predicts knowledge of this form.

Etymology

Cooky is a spelling of cookie that comes from the Dutch word koekje, which means 'little cake', so a cooky is a small sweet baked cake.