fortune cookie

fortune cookie

n.

A cookie made from a thin layer of dough that is folded and baked around a slip of paper bearing a prediction of fortune or a maxim.

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for′tune cook`ie

n.

a folded edible wafer containing a slip of paper with a printed maxim or prediction.

[1960–65]

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Noun

1.

fortune cookie - thin folded wafer containing a maxim on a slip of paper cookie, cooky, biscuit - any of various small flat sweet cakes (`biscuit' is the British term) Cathay, China, Communist China, mainland China, People's Republic of China, PRC, Red China - a communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia; the most populous country in the world

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Glückskeks