oreo
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Genericized use of Oreo, q.v.
Noun[edit]
oreo (plural oreos)
- Alternative letter-case form of Oreo.
- 2012, Walter B.J. Mitchell, Stories I Tell My High School English Students[1], page 78:
- The young woman said, "Well, actually we do have one minority student."
The young man chimed in, "Yeah, but he's an oreo."
"An oreo?" I asked. "Please define the term oreo."
"You know," the young man said. "Black on the outside, and white in the middle."
Spanish[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Deverbal from orear, from Latin aura (“air”).
Noun[edit]
oreo m (plural oreos)
Etymology 2[edit]
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb[edit]
oreo
Further reading[edit]
- “oreo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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