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cookieholic en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree English cookie Akkadian 𒎎𒋆𒁉𒍣𒁕 (guḫlum)bor. Aramaic כוחלא (kuḥlā)bor. Arabic كُحْل (kuḥl) Andalusian Arabic كُحُول (kuḥūl)bor. Medieval Latin alcoholbor. Middle English alcofol English alcohol Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English alcoholic English -holic English cookieholic From cookie + -holic.

Meanings

1. (attributive, informal, sometimes) A person who is intensely fond of cookies.
   • As a recovering cookieholic, I really was not interested in buying any. However, as I yielded to temptation, I focused on the healthy ones, with fiber and such. 2002, Phil Lempert, Being the Shopper: Understanding the Buyer's Choice, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 40:
   • A self-declared chocolate lover and “cookieholic,” at age eighty-six Brown weighed 125 pounds, not her almost lifelong 100 pounds, and she tried only occasionally, and generally unsuccessfully, to diet her way back to her preferred weight. 2009, Jennifer Scanlon, chapter 11, in Bad Girls Go Everywhere: The Life of Helen Gurley Brown, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 205:
   • The joy of cookies is one thing, but to the true cookieholic, there is something better…far better, in fact. So much better that it's something my kids have learned they must never touch, for fear of incurring the wrath of their cookieholic father. 2001, Gary E. Anderson, Spider's Night on the Boom: And Other Fiascos, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 29:

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