Oreo
A cookie made of two wafers joined with a sugary filling, particularly a Nabisco…A cookie made of two wafers joined with a sugary filling, particularly a Nabisco cookie with two alkalized cocoa-powder wafers around a white creme filling.
» Tom dunked the Oreo in milk for too long and it became soggy.
Том слишком долго держал печенье Oreo в молоке, и оно всё размякло.
Meaning
2 sensesA cookie made of two wafers joined with a sugary filling, particularly a Nabisco cookie with two alkalized cocoa-powder wafers around a white creme filling.
Oreo
chocolate cookie with white cream filling
(US, derogatory, ethnic, slur)A black person who has overly assimilated into white culture, a black race traitor.
Examples
2 sentencesTom dunked the Oreo in milk for too long and it became soggy.
ruТом слишком долго держал печенье Oreo в молоке, и оно всё размякло. — Ooneykcall
Do you like Oreo cookies?
ruТы любишь печенье Орео? — marafon
deMagst du Oreo-Kekse? — Pfirsichbaeumchen
Translations
5 languagesBy meaning 1
Origin
Brand name of unknown origin, trademarked by National Biscuit Company on 14 March 1912. SeBrand name of unknown origin, trademarked by National Biscuit Company on 14 March 1912. See the Etymology section of Wikipedia's Oreo article for various theories. In reference to well-assimilated black people, derived from the slur that they are "black on the outside, white on the inside".
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Forms
plural: OreosSynonyms
2 synonyms- chocolate cookie with white cream filling:oreo cookie