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what do you want, a cookie

UK/ˈwɒt də ju ˈwɒnt | ə ˈkʊki/US/ˈwʌt də jə ˈwɑnt | ə ˈkʊki/

what do you want, a cookie phrase: a retort to someone who has done something unsurprising or unimpressive and has deemed it necessary to mention it.

Phrase

what do you want, a cookie?

  1. (rhetoric, sarcastic) A retort to someone who has done something unsurprising or unimpressive and has deemed it necessary to mention it.
    • "I was straight to the point - "Laurie, I'm gay." "Bernard, I've known that for a long time. So, what do you want, a cookie? Now deal the cards!"1994, R. Jeffrey Ringer, Queer Words, Queer Images: Communication and Construction of Homosexuality, →ISBN, page 230
    • DOLL. Buzzet attacked me last night. I have scars! Look at my arm! And my hair is flat too!
      SPIDER. What do you want a cookie?2001, Mary Rogers, Drop Your Webbings! (from Class Acts: High School Plays by High School Writers →ISBN by Randy Lee Hartwig), p.30

Examples of what do you want, a cookie in a sentence

  • "Well what do you want, a cookie" I tell him and he looks at me like he does not understand."2004, James H. Taylor, Curiosity Killed the Chelsea Boy, →ISBN, page 153:
  • "So what do you want, a cookie?" laughed Prolok.2006, Antonio Garza, The House with the Magic Cellar: Realm: I, →ISBN, page 103:

Synonyms of what do you want, a cookie

Forms of what do you want, a cookie

alternative formyou want a cookie

Questions about what do you want, a cookie

What does what do you want, a cookie mean?
What do you want, a cookie means a retort to someone who has done something unsurprising or unimpressive and has deemed it necessary to mention it.
How do you use what do you want, a cookie in a sentence?
"Well what do you want, a cookie" I tell him and he looks at me like he does not understand."
What part of speech is what do you want, a cookie?
What do you want, a cookie is a phrase.
How do you pronounce what do you want, a cookie?
What do you want, a cookie is pronounced /ˈwɒt də ju ˈwɒnt | ə ˈkʊki/ (UK).

Words near what do you want, a cookie in the dictionary

  1. what do you make the time
  2. what do you mean
  3. what do you say
  4. what do you want
  5. what do you want, a biscuit
  6. what do you want, a cookie
  7. what do you want, a medal
  8. what do you want: blood?
  9. what does it all mean, Basil
  10. what does it matter
  11. what does that have to do with the price of corn

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