Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

cookie monster

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.93 in modern English

Syllables: cook-ie -mon-ster
IPA

21

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

4

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A blue creature from the children's television show Sesame Street who is intensely fond of cookies.

noun

A person who eats lots of cookies.

Informal

Example Sentences

"In the first four years I worked at QVC I was a cookie monster and ate myself up twenty-two pounds — that's a lot of chocolate chips."
"The cookie monster program would lock up your terminal and endlessly prompt you to "Give me a cookie (or "I WANT A COOKIE" or some variation), and no matter what you typed, it would always insist it wanted a cookie."
"A gene involved in cell division which is named because it makes the cells look like a `whole bunch of cookie monster eyes'."
"In his Cookie Monster voice, he screamed, "Bing-go! Jack-pot! Koo-key!""

Etymology

From the Sesame Street character Cookie Monster.

Usage

Informal

Inflected Forms

cookie monsters (plural)

Questions

What does cookie monster mean?: A blue creature from the children's television show Sesame Street who is intensely fond of cookies.
Where does cookie monster come from?: From the Sesame Street character Cookie Monster.

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