sand cookie

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Name given to various types of shortbread. US
    — 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. 132, 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.)
  2. Any echinoderm of the order Clypeasteroida. US
  3. A mass of sand shaped to resemble a cookie by a child playing, similar to a mud pie. US
    — 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.

词形变化

sand cookies plural

词源

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