sugar cookie
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1.1
- noun
- /ˈʃʊɡər ˈkʊki/
- US
:
galleta de azúcar
- Her mother poured her a glass of milk at the kitchen table, gave her a sugar cookie, and sat down beside her as Topaz ate it.
- sugar cookie dough
- bake sugar cookies
- decorate sugar cookies
OK, because this I guarantee is the best sugar cookie of life.
- OK, because this I guarantee is the best sugar cookie of life.
- Just a plain sugar cookie or a plain snickle doodle.
- This morning we got home from the gym and we had a package from Burke's and it was just this lovely little box of gorgeous little Christmas iced sugar cookies.
- These are sugar free Akito sugar cookies.
Examples
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That's a delicious frosted sugar cookie, James.
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Even a little plate of sugar cookies.
Fiction book (1996) -
"And she took out the sugar cookies she had brought for them.
Fiction book (1991) -
Indeed, they look like sugar cookies.
Fiction book (1997) -
Let's find the sugar cookies.
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Tonight, we made buttercream sugar cookies from scratch.
Blog text (13) -
"I thought you wanted to play on the beach," said Grandpa, taking a sugar cookie from the cookie jar.
Fiction book (2000) -
I used my standard sugar cookie recipe but added some flavors that I thought would taste great with coffee.
Blog text (7) -
You haven't lived till you had one of my mom's sugar cookies.
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You can enjoy a chocolate or vanilla flavor in these soft and chewy sugar cookies.
Synonyms
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1.0
A small flat sweet baked treat often with chocolate chips or nuts
69
1.0
A small sugary food eaten after a meal
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3.7
Sweet food like candy or a small cake
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1.0
A small sweet food high in sugar eaten between meals as a treat
How Sweet
Surface Forms
Morphology
The noun–noun compound 'sugar cookie' is directly interpretable from its parts: a cookie involving sugar (i.e., a sweet cookie often sprinkled or made with sugar). This simple compositional pattern is cross-linguistically common and follows standard English noun compounding, so a B1 learner who knows 'sugar' and 'cookie' will readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Sugar cookie comes from the simple picture of a flat cookie sprinkled with sugar before baking. That's why the name means a 'sweet' cookie with sugar on top.