snickerdoodle
snickerdoodle noun: a cookie in which the batter is rolled into a ball and coated with cinnamon sugar.
Noun
snickerdoodle (plural snickerdoodles)
- A cookie in which the batter is rolled into a ball and coated with cinnamon sugar.
- Besides bread, the bakehouse also turned out such treats as gristmill graham, hobnail, lumberjack, and snickerdoodle cookies in New England; and corn pone, spoon bread, and hominy pudding in the South.1967, Paul Henry Oehser (ed.), The United States Encyclopedia of History, Curtis Books, page 382
- Then, one morning, after making twenty dozen snickerdoodle cookies for an upcoming church function, Wanda collapsed onto the kitchen’s sparking vinyl floor and died.1991, Daranna Gidel, Ceremony of Innocence, Dutton, →ISBN, page 345
Forms of snickerdoodle
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Origin of snickerdoodle
The earliest known use is from 1889. Possibly a fanciful coinage, from snicker + doodle (“doodlebug”; though without clear semantic connection to either word). An alternative etymology derives it from German Schneckennudel, also a round type of pastry, but formed from dough rolled up in a coil. A Dutch origin has also been surmised, based off semantics (see cookie) and similar-sounding words (see snickersnee).
Questions about snickerdoodle
- What does snickerdoodle mean?
- Snickerdoodle means a cookie in which the batter is rolled into a ball and coated with cinnamon sugar.
- What part of speech is snickerdoodle?
- Snickerdoodle is a noun.
- What is the plural of snickerdoodle?
- The plural of snickerdoodle is snickerdoodles.
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