Oreo cookie
- noun
- /ˈɔːrioʊ ˈkʊki/
- Do you have any idea how much profit there is in a package of Oreo cookies?
- eat Oreo cookies
- package of Oreo cookies
- Oreo cookies and cream
If you think that you can make an Oreo cookie, I'm here.
- If you think that you can make an Oreo cookie, I'm here.
- I've had the shot, the, the, the gels, I've had the chews, I've had the bars, I've had the potato chips, I've had the Oreo cookies.
Examples
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Tried some yummy flavors of Oreo cookies with Moe for the Oreo challenge game.
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I just opened a package of Oreo cookies for the party.
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Where did you get these Oreo cookies?
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On the table in front of Ross is a box of Oreo cookies.
Academic text (2008) -
An Oreo cookie for me?
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They sit in the dark eating Oreo cookies and drinking milk.
Fiction book (1998) -
She turned to see a blonde woman grab a package of Oreo cookies from her small daughter's hand.
Fiction book (1990) -
Think how daunting it is merely choosing among the many varieties of Oreo cookies on the shelf today.
Academic text (2005) -
That's where I keep my root beers and my double-thick Oreo cookies.
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Nothing more came to him—except, strangely, the sweet chocolate taste of Oreo cookies, as intense as if he had just bitten into one.
Fiction book (1992)
Synonyms
A small flat sweet baked treat often with chocolate chips or nuts
A chocolate sandwich cookie with sweet white cream filling
Surface Forms
Morphology
This is a straightforward brand-name + noun composition: knowing 'Oreo' (a specific type/brand of cookie) and 'cookie' allows a learner to infer it is the cookie made by the Oreo brand. Brand+product constructions are highly compositional and cross-linguistically transparent, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents will understand the meaning.
Etymology
Oreo cookie may come from the simple image of a tiny 'sandwich': two dark biscuits with white cream pressed between them. That's why Oreo cookie means the chocolate 'sandwich' cookie people often dunk in milk today.