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cookie dough

cookie dough noun: a paste usually formed of flour, sugar, water, eggs, and other ingredients which, when baked, hardens to form a cookie or a number of cookies.

Noun

cookie dough (countable and uncountable, plural cookie doughs)

  1. (countable) A paste usually formed of flour, sugar, water, eggs, and other ingredients which, when baked, hardens to form a cookie or a number of cookies.
  2. (uncountable) A flavor designed to emulate the taste of the paste.

Forms of cookie dough

pluralcookie doughs

Questions about cookie dough

What does cookie dough mean?
Cookie dough means a paste usually formed of flour, sugar, water, eggs, and other ingredients which, when baked, hardens to form a cookie or a number of cookies.
What part of speech is cookie dough?
Cookie dough is a noun.
What is the plural of cookie dough?
The plural of cookie dough is cookie doughs.

Words near cookie dough in the dictionary

  1. cookie butter
  2. cookie butters
  3. cookie cutter
  4. cookie cutterish
  5. cookie cutters
  6. cookie dough
  7. cookie doughs
  8. cookie exchange
  9. cookie exchanges
  10. cookie grabber
  11. cookie grabbers

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