fortune cookie
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- noun
- /ˈfɔːrtʃən ˈkʊki/
- US
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galleta de la fortuna
- At the Chinese restaurant, the waiter presented each guest with a fortune cookie that held a unique saying inside.
- open a fortune cookie
- crack a fortune cookie
- read a fortune cookie
OK, You will eat a fortune cookie in your near future.
- OK, You will eat a fortune cookie in your near future.
- First one, the headline that I've grabbed, it's like a fortune cookie.
- This is a kind of fortune cookie world and that's why you made the movie.
Examples
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Just as we were finishing, the fortune cookies came.
Fiction book (2002) -
Hey, can I have a fortune cookie, at least?
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No, I just love fortune cookies.
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Now, where are the fortune cookies?
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So it's fortune cookies for everybody.
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At the end of the meal, after the check and the fortune cookies, she asked if he had ever read any of her stories.
Fiction book (2001) -
OK, You will eat a fortune cookie in your near future.
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What if I told you that we all got a fortune cookie to share?
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The food was good, but the fortune cookie was a little old.
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Let's start the meal with fortune cookies.
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'fortune' (a prediction or luck) + 'cookie' (a small sweet biscuit) plausibly yields a cookie that contains a fortune or prediction. Although the item is culturally specific, the lexical combination follows normal compounding patterns and a B1 learner who knows both words can readily infer the intended object.
Etymology
Fortune cookie comes from a simple image: a thin, crisp, folded cookie that holds a small paper with a fortune, a short prediction or saying. That's why a fortune cookie today means a sweet biscuit you break open to find a little 'fortune'.