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Definition of Cookey
1. n. See Cooky.
Definition of Cookey
1. cookie [n -EYS] - See also: cookie
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cookey
Literary usage of Cookey
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Modern Street Ballads by John Ashton (1888)
"cookey DARLING. fm waiting at t/ie airey, cookey, darling, ... I'm waiting at
the airey, cookey, darling, Then bring me up something good to eat, ..."
2. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1857)
"Then he emerged from the intolerable smoke he had raised in the galley, and
devoted himself to the stove-pipe outside, cookey meanwhile, within the caboose, ..."
3. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1857)
"Then he emerged from the intolerable smoke he had raised in the galley, and
devoted himself to the stove-pipe outside, cookey meanwhile, within the caboose, ..."
4. Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary, Historical and by John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley (1891)
"cookey or COOKIE. To BET A COOKIE, verbal fhr. (American). ... [The cookey, like
the English pancake on Shrove Tuesday, and the hot cross bun on Good Friday ..."
5. Acadia, Or, A Month with the Blue Noses by Frederick Swartwout Cozzens (1859)
"By the way, my appetite is improving ; I think cookey is getting tea ready, by
the smoke and the smell." "Likely/' replied Picton; "let us take a squint at ..."
6. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"cookey—contd. 1849 Their children I will leave in lurch, Or in each stocking put
a birch. * * * Ay more, no cookie shall be baked For them, until my wrath ..."
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