oreo
/ˈɔɹioʊ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.96 in modern English
4
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
3
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A cookie made of two wafers joined with a sugary filling, particularly a Nabisco cookie with two alkalized cocoa-powder wafers around a white creme filling.
noun
A black person who has overly assimilated into white culture, a black race traitor.
American usage; Derogatory
noun
Alternative letter-case form of Oreo.
Example Sentences
- "The Oreo is really an antidepressant drug disguised as a cookie. You lost your job? Eat a bag of Oreos[…] There are two ways to eat Oreos. Kids like to pull the chocolate wafers apart and eat the sweat, creamy middle first. Adults dunk them in milk."
- "While Oreo cream may not appear to possess fluid-like properties, it is considered a "yield stress fluid""—a soft solid when unperturbed that can start to flow under enough stress[…] Curious as to whether other had explored the connection between Oreos and rheology, Owens found mention of a 2016 Princeton University study in which physicists first reported that indeed, when twisting Oreos by hand, the cream almost always came off on one wafer."
- "“You can feed, like, an entire city,” he marvels, before salivating over Oreos, Nilla Wafers, jugs of milk, eggs, a sausage wrapped in a pancake on a stick."
- "She's a pure Oreo. You know, like the cookie, black outside and white inside."
- "Growing up in white suburbs and attending elite schools and institutions of higher learning, black American prince and princesses are immersed in Anglo (often WASP) culture and emerge with modes of speech, behavior and grooming that brand them as "Oreos," black on the outside and white in the middle."
- "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.""
Etymology
Brand name of unknown origin, trademarked by National Biscuit Company on 14 March 1912. See the Etymology section of Wikipedia's Oreo article for various theories. In reference to well-assimilated black people, derived from the slur that they are "black on the outside, white on the inside".
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈɔɹioʊ/
Usage
- American usage
- Derogatory