Crossword clues for fortune cookie
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
by 1955, said to have been invented in 1918 by David Jung, Chinese immigrant to America who established Hong Kong Noodle Co., who handed out cookies that contained uplifting messages as a promotional gimmick.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A type of hollow snack, common in westernized Chinese food, containing a message on a narrow strip of paper, generally with a wise or vaguely prophetic message printed on the paper. 2 (context computing English) A quote-of-the-day feature (especially on *nix systems.)
WordNet
n. thin folded wafer containing a maxim on a slip of paper
Wikipedia
A fortune cookie is a crisp cookie usually made from flour, sugar, vanilla, and sesame seed oil with a piece of paper, a "fortune", on which is an aphorism, or a vague prophecy. The message inside may also include a Chinese phrase with translation and/or a list of lucky numbers used by some as lottery numbers, some of which have become actual winning numbers. Fortune cookies are often served as a dessert in Chinese restaurants in the United States and some other countries, but are absent in China. The exact origin of fortune cookies is unclear, though various immigrant groups in California claim to have popularized them in the early 20th century.
A fortune cookie is a food item.
Fortune Cookie, Fortune Cookies, or The Fortune Cookie may also refer to:
- The Fortune Cookie, a 1966 film
- Fortune Cookies (album), a 2001 album by Alana Davis
- " Koi Suru Fortune Cookie", a song by Japanese group AKB48
- The Fortune Cookie, an episode of the television series Mona the Vampire
- Fortune Cookie (novel), a 2010 novel by Bryce Courtenay
Usage examples of "fortune cookie".
Wilmot Shaw^ who found it in a fortune cookie he ordered for dessert at the Great China Republic Restaurant in San Francisco.
He sat down and pulled his chair in, trying not to look at the fortune cookie on his plate.
A huge bug, its chitinous carapace an ugly yellow-brown, was pushing its way out of his fortune cookie as if from a cocoon.
They don't know it, but it unnerves them for the rest of the week, throws them off-balance, to find a fortune cookie fortune, and all it says, enigmatically, maddeningly, is ‘.
He had gotten the coordinates from the second fortune cookie in Kidnapper's glove compartment, which was much less cryptic than the first had been.
Then the remembrance of the third fortune cookie in his pocket made him smile.
I see this guy and he's sitting in the River Garden restaurant having Chinese dinner all by himself, and afterward he receives a fortune cookie with his check, which he opens up.
Jerry took a sip of his hot tea and reached for his fortune cookie.