speculoos

See also: spéculoos

English

Etymology

From Dutch speculoos, Belgian form of speculaas.

Noun

speculoos (countable and uncountable, plural speculoos)

1. A type of spiced shortcrust biscuit.
2. In particular, the Belgian version of this biscuit, as contrasted with a Dutch speculaas or German Spekulatius.
3. A type of spread made with the biscuit.

Synonyms

• (biscuit): speculaas
• (spread): cookie butter

Hyponyms

(cookie):

• speculaas (Dutch)
• speculoos (Belgian)

Translations

biscuit

• Arabic: سبيكولوس (sabykulus)
• Catalan: speculoos m
• Dutch: speculaas (nl) n, speculoos (nl) n
• Finnish: speculaas
• French: spéculoos (fr) m, spéculos (fr) m
• German: Spekulatius (de) m
• Japanese: スペキュラース (supekyurāsu) (Dutch form), スペキュロス (supekyurosu) (French form), スペキュロース (supekyurōsu) (French form)
• Korean: 스페퀼로스 (seupekwilloseu), 스페퀼라스 (seupekwillaseu)
• Latin: speculatius m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: спекулас

  Latin: spekulas

• West Frisian: spekulaas n