fortune cookie

English

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Noun

fortune cookie (plural fortune cookies)

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.
   • 2006, “Courtesy Laughs”, in It's Never Been Like That, performed by Phoenix:

     I read my future in a fortune cookie / Without any safety procedure in mind

   • 2009, Jon Paul Fiorentino, Stripmalling, ECW Press, →ISBN, page 23:

     “The Chinese restaurant code. It states that the fortune cookie is not to be taken lightly. Now what do you mean to be doing with this fortune cookie anyway, lad?”

2. (computing) A quote-of-the-day feature (especially on *nix systems.)
3. (fandom slang, vulgar) In the furry fandom, the vulva of canine species. Named so due to its resemblance to the snack.

Translations

snack

Afrikaans: fortuinkoekie Arabic: كَعْكَة الحَظّ f (kaʕka(t) al-ḥaẓẓ) Catalan: galeta de la fortuna Chinese: Mandarin: 籤餅 / 签饼 (zh) (qiānbǐng), 簽餅 / 签饼 (zh) (qiānbǐng) Dutch: gelukskoekje (nl) n Esperanto: sortobiskvito Estonian: õnneküpsis (et) Finnish: onnenkeksi (fi) French: biscuit chinois (fr), biscuit porte-bonheur German: Glückskeks (de) m Hungarian: szerencsesüti Japanese: フォーチュン・クッキー (fōchun kukkī), 辻占煎餅 (ja) (tsujiura senbei) Korean: 포춘 쿠키 (pochun kuki) Mongolian: азын жигнэмэг (azyn žignemeg) Polish: ciasteczko z wróżbą n Portuguese: biscoito da sorte f Romanian: prăjitură cu răvaș f Russian: пече́нье сча́стья n (pečénʹje sčástʹja) Spanish: galleta de la fortuna f Swedish: lyckokaka c Thai: คุกกี้เสี่ยงทาย (th) (kúk-gîi-sìiang-taai) Turkish: şans kurabiyesi

computing

Afrikaans: fortuinkoekie German: Glückskeks (de) m Polish: ciasteczko z wróżbą n

Further reading

• fortune cookie on Wikipedia.Wikipedia