butter cookie
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- noun
- /ˈbʌtər ˈkʊki/
- US
:
galleta de mantequilla
- She enjoyed a delicious butter cookie with her coffee at the café.
- peanut butter cookies
- sweet butter cookies
- Danish butter cookies
Examples
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Your mom and I are gonna finish these beans, and then we'll make you some butter cookies for after.
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"My pleasure," said Mrs. Bridge, accepting a sugar-sprinkled butter cookie from the plate.
Fiction book (1997) -
My grandma's diamond-shaped walnut and sugar-studded butter cookies.
Blog text (19) -
For the bake sale, I prepared a batch of classic butter cookies topped with colorful sprinkles.
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The children excitedly decorated their butter cookies with icing and candy before eating them.
Synonyms
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A small flat sweet baked treat often with chocolate chips or nuts
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A rich biscuit made with lots of butter and sugar, crisp and crumbly
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Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'butter' specifies the ingredient or flavor and 'cookie' names the baked sweet, so a B1 learner who knows both words can infer a cookie made with butter. This noun–noun modifier pattern is cross-linguistically common and follows regular English composition, making the expression immediately understandable from its parts.
Etymology
Butter cookie comes from the simple idea of a small cookie made with lots of butter, so bakers used extra butter to make it crisp and rich. So, the name tells you it is 'rich and buttery' in taste.