almond cookie
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2.0
- noun
- /ˈɑlmənd ˈkʊki/
:
galleta de almendra
- An almond cookie?
Examples
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Wanna split my almond cookie?
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Listen, a woman was just in here buying almond cookies.
Fiction book (2002) -
"Margie reached for an almond cookie.
Fiction book (2002) -
He hides his almond cookies on the top shelf.
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Cheers! Remember almond cookies.
Blog text (9) -
These almond cookies have a rich, sweet flavor that everyone loves.
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My grandmother bakes the best almond cookies for the holidays.
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After dinner, we enjoyed some homemade almond cookies with our tea.
Synonyms
A small crescent-shaped cookie made with ground almonds
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Morphology
The meaning 'a cookie made with almonds' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'almond' (the nut) with 'cookie' (a small sweet baked item); the noun–noun composition indicating ingredient or flavor is a common, regular English pattern. This construction is cross-linguistically common and would be readily understood by a B1 learner who knows both constituent words.
Etymology
The compound noun almond cookie comes from a simple baking picture: bakers mixed ground almond into the sweet dough to make a small cookie. That's why the name means 'a rich, sweet cookie made with ground almonds'.