fortune cookie

English

A fortune cookie (food) that has been broken open

Noun

fortune cookie (plural fortune cookies)

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

Translations

snack

• Catalan: galeta de la fortuna
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 籤餅／签饼 (qiānbǐng), 簽餅／签饼 (qiānbǐng), 签饼 (qiānbǐng)

• Dutch: gelukskoekje n
• Finnish: onnenkeksi (fi)
• French: biscuit chinois (fr)
• German: Glückskeks (de) m
• Hungarian: szerencsesüti
• Japanese: フォーチュン・クッキー (fōchun kukkī)
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• Korean: 포춘 쿠키 (pochun kuki)
• Mongolian: азын жигнэмэг (azyn žignemeg)
• Portuguese: biscoito da sorte f
• Russian: пече́нье сча́стья n (pečénʹje sčástʹja)
• Spanish: galleta de la fortuna f
• Swedish: lyckokaka c
• Thai: คุกกี้เสี่ยงทาย (th) (kúk-gîi-sìiang-taai)

computing

• German: Glückskeks (de) m
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See also

• fortune cookie on Wikipedia.Wikipedia