Meaning & use
wafer cookie
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Meanings
nouncountable
A thin, crisp, sweet biscuit, often eaten with ice cream or sold in layers with a cream filling.
Grammar: Countable: one wafer cookie, two wafer cookies; it can also be used as a modifier before another noun.
Patterns
- a wafer cookie
- a box of wafer cookies
- wafer cookie ice cream
She bought a box of vanilla wafer cookies for the children.
The dessert was served with a wafer cookie on the side.
He crushed some wafer cookies and sprinkled them over the ice cream.
nouncountable
A type of thin, crisp cookie made in flat sheets and often used in layers with a soft filling.
Grammar: Often used in the plural when talking about the product in general: wafer cookies are popular.
Patterns
- wafer cookies with cream
- chocolate wafer cookies
These chocolate wafer cookies are very light and crunchy.
The bakery makes lemon wafer cookies with a sweet cream inside.
Word forms
| plural | wafer cookies |
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Common combinations
- vanilla wafer cookie
- He dipped a vanilla wafer cookie into his tea.
- chocolate wafer cookie
- The chocolate wafer cookie melted quickly in her hand.
- a box of wafer cookies
- We finished a whole box of wafer cookies during the movie.
- wafer cookie crust
- The pie has a wafer cookie crust.
Synonyms and how they differ
- wafer
- Shorter and more common in British English; it can also mean a thin crisp biscuit eaten with ice cream.
- biscuit
- A general British word for a small baked sweet or savory cake; in American English a biscuit is more like a soft bread roll.
- cookie
- A general American word for a sweet baked treat; a wafer cookie is a specific thin, crisp type.
Word family
- wafer-thin adjective
- Extremely thin, like a wafer.
Commonly confused: wafer cookie or waffle? wafer cookie or wafer?
wafer cookie vs waffle
A waffle is a thicker, softer cake with a grid pattern, cooked in a waffle iron; a wafer cookie is thin and crisp.
wafer cookie vs wafer
A wafer can be a plain thin biscuit or a thin slice of silicon in electronics; a wafer cookie is specifically a sweet biscuit.
Practice
Which sentence uses 'wafer cookie' correctly?
Choose one answer.
'With her coffee' is the natural phrase for eating something alongside a drink. The other prepositions do not fit this everyday context.
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