crookie
crookie noun: a combination of a croissant and a cookie.
Noun
crookie (plural crookies)
- A combination of a croissant and a cookie.
- And the dozens of bakers who are busy inventing doissants, mallomacs, crookies and the like are app developers, locked in a fight to create the best new product for the platform.2014 April 5, Julia Moskin, “A real treat or half-baked?”, in Dayton Daily News, volume 137, number 174, page D7
- Such is the state of American pastry: cookie dough shaped into a shot glass and filled with milk, a croissant with its legs crossed into a pretzel, and soft-serve made out of strained cereal milk. Oh, and of course, there’s the Cronut™ and its mutant cousins: the bronut (a brownie doughnut), the...2014 December 5, Lucas Sin, “Such is the state of American pastry”, in Weekend (Yale Daily News), page B2
Examples of crookie in a sentence
- Well, we’ve had the cronut (croissant-donut hybrid), the cragel (croissant-bagel hybrid), the crookie (croissant-cookie), and now ... the kudossant, a croissant-waffle hybrid.2015 August 9, “It’s a croissant! It’s a waffle! It’s ...”, in The Record, page BL-2:
- They can tell you the exact point at which the cronut replaced the doughnut replaced the duffin replaced the crookie as the city’s pretentious baked hybrid sweet treat du jour.2015 December 18, Laura Craik, “Can’t cook, won’t cook”, in ES Magazine, page 6:
- We now have crookies, brookies, duffins, and cruffins, all mash-ups of familiar treats (cookies, tarts, brownies, doughnuts, croissants and muffins respectively).2016, Alysa Levene, Cake: A Slice of History, Headline Publishing Group, →ISBN:
Forms of crookie
| plural | crookies |
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Origin of crookie
Blend of croissant + cookie.
Questions about crookie
- What does crookie mean?
- Crookie means a combination of a croissant and a cookie.
- How do you use crookie in a sentence?
- Well, we’ve had the cronut (croissant-donut hybrid), the cragel (croissant-bagel hybrid), the crookie (croissant-cookie), and now ... the kudossant, a croissant-waffle hybrid.
- What part of speech is crookie?
- Crookie is a noun.
- What is the plural of crookie?
- The plural of crookie is crookies.
Words near crookie in the dictionary
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