Meaning

3 senses
  1. A type of hollow snack, common in westernized Chinese cuisine: a crisp sugary wafer containing a message on a narrow strip of paper, generally with a wise or vaguely prophetic message or random numbers usable in a lottery printed on the paper.

    Glückskeks

    пече́нье сча́стьяpečénʹje sčástʹja

  2. A quote-of-the-day feature (especially on *nix systems.)

    Glückskeks

  3. (slang)The vulva of canine species.

More definitions
  • thin folded wafer containing a maxim on a slip of paper

Examples

10 sentences
  1. What kind of people write fortune cookie messages?

  2. I love opening fortune cookies.

  3. Some fortune cookies contain no fortune.

  4. How do fortunes get inside of fortune cookies?

  5. I love reading the messages hidden inside fortune cookies.

    deIch lese zu gerne in Glückskeksen versteckte Botschaften. — raggione

Translations

7 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
snack:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
snack:

Origin

First attested in 1942 (see quotations below).

First attested in 1942 (see quotations below).

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Forms

plural: fortune cookies
Singularfortune cookie
Pluralfortune cookies

regular

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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