oatmeal cookie
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- noun
- /ˈoʊtˌmiːl ˈkʊki/
- US
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galleta de avena
- Every holiday season, my grandmother bakes a dozen oatmeal cookies filled with raisins and nuts.
- bake oatmeal cookies
- homemade oatmeal cookies
- buy oatmeal cookies
Examples
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When Gil left for California, she gathered a care package for him: a plastic tub of homemade oatmeal cookies, a laminated road map, and a first-aid kit.
Fiction book (2000) -
The lecture would be followed by a Q&A period, and the meeting concluded with the serving of coffee and oatmeal cookies.
Fiction book (1992) -
Ah, but she made these great oatmeal cookies.
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Have some oatmeal cookies now.
Fiction book (1993) -
You want an oatmeal cookie?
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Lilly thought that her mother made the best oatmeal cookies in the whole wide world.
Fiction book (2001) -
See, my mom makes great oatmeal cookies, but there's something else about her, too.
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But, at the very bottom of the bag, Lilly discovered two oatmeal cookies.
Fiction book (2001) -
Only Queenie was sitting up waiting for her, with hot chocolate and Paxton's favorite oatmeal cookies fresh from the oven.
Fiction book (1990) -
Doris wraps up tuna sandwiches and oatmeal cookies and pours a thermos of strong coffee for Herb.
Fiction book (1992)
Synonyms
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A small flat sweet baked treat often with chocolate chips or nuts
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Morphology
The meaning is directly and compositionally derived from 'oatmeal' (oats/porridge) + 'cookie' (small sweet baked cake): it denotes a cookie made with oats. This noun–noun compound follows regular English compounding patterns and similar constructions exist cross-linguistically, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the intended meaning.
Etymology
Oatmeal cookie literally names a cookie made with oatmeal; picture flakes of oats mixed into sweet dough so the treat is chewy and a little nutty. That's why it means 'a sweet baked cookie made with rolled oats'.