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cookieish en · ADJ

Etymology

From cookie + -ish.

Meanings

1. Characteristic of a cookie, in taste, shape, consistency, etc.
   • Pickwick's Best Bitter is a biscuity, cookieish take on a Yorkshire bitter, with an earthy, spicy hop aroma and appropriate lightly buttery mouthfeel. 2017, Robin LeBlanc, Jordan St. John, The Ontario Craft Beer Guide: Second Edition, p. 405
   • Mostly technical jargon and arbitrary fortune-cookieish dictums on violence and heredity. 2014, Geoffrey Girard, Cain's Blood: A Novel, page 42:
   • They try to tell you that they don't know where the ice-cream sandwich in the freezer went, honest, though you can see some of the chocolate cookieish part on their fingers. 2008, Jeffrey Sweet, The Value of Names and Other Plays, page 412:

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Synonyms

cookielike