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sand cookie

sand cookie noun: name given to various types of shortbread.

Noun

sand cookie (plural sand cookies)

  1. (US) Name given to various types of shortbread.
    • Some of the wives poured and served up civilized cookies such as I haven’t had for months. ([Your] sand cookies are out of this world, therefore excluded.)1945, Adrian Wilson, letter dated 31 March, 1945, in Joyce Lancaster Wilson (ed.), Two Against the Tide: A Conscientious Objector in World War II: Selected Letters, Austin, TX: W. Thomas Taylor, p....
    • her breath sugary from fingerfuls of molasses or sand-cookie crumbs1987, Toni Morrison, Beloved, New York: Knopf, page 121
  2. (US) Any echinoderm of the order Clypeasteroida.
    Synonyms:
    sand dollar
  3. (US) A mass of sand shaped to resemble a cookie by a child playing, similar to a mud pie.
    • A boy and a girl were playing in a large sandbox near my window. The little girl, who was singing, was very busy making sand cookies.1959, Frances R. Horwich, chapter 11, in The Magic of Bringing Up Your Child, New York: McGraw-Hill, page 250
    • Make sand cookies at the beach. All you need is a set of plastic cookie cutters and presses. These can provide hours of amusement at the beach for toddlers […]2000, Barbara Rowley, chapter 6, in Baby Days, New York: Hyperion, page 197

Synonyms of sand cookie

Forms of sand cookie

pluralsand cookies

Origin of sand cookie

Perhaps a calque of French sablé (“shortbread”) from sable (“sand”), because of the texture of the crumbs; cf. also Norwegian sandkake.

Questions about sand cookie

What does sand cookie mean?
Sand cookie means name given to various types of shortbread.
What part of speech is sand cookie?
Sand cookie is a noun.
What is the plural of sand cookie?
The plural of sand cookie is sand cookies.

Words near sand cookie in the dictionary

  1. Sand City
  2. sand clock
  3. sand clocks
  4. sand cock
  5. sand cocks
  6. sand cookie
  7. sand crab
  8. sand crabs
  9. sand crack
  10. sand cracks
  11. sand cress

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