Rookie vs Cookie - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between rookie and cookie

is that rookie is an inexperienced recruit, especially in the police or armed forces while cookie is (label) a small, flat, baked cake which is either crisp or soft but firm (often with chocolate chips, candies or nuts mixed in).

As an adjective rookie

is non-professional; amateur.

rookie

English

Noun

(en noun)

An inexperienced recruit, especially in the police or armed forces.

A novice.

An athlete either new to the sport or to a team or in his first year of professional competition, especially said of baseball, basketball, hockey and American football players.

(British) A type of firecracker, used by farmers to scare rooks.

Synonyms

* beginner * newbie, new boy * noob * tyro * novice * See also

Adjective

(-)

non-professional; amateur

The game was going well until I made that rookie mistake.

(amateur)

cookie

English

(wikipedia cookie)

Alternative forms

* (uncommon)

Noun

(en noun)

(label) A small, flat, baked cake which is either crisp or soft but firm (often with chocolate chips, candies or nuts mixed in).

(label) A specifically American-style (l).

(label) A bun.

An (l), web cookie.

(label) A (l).

A young, attractive woman.

The female genitalia.

* 2009 , T. R. Oulds, Story of Many Secret Night , Lulu.com (2010), ISBN 9781409285816, unnumbered page:

Her legs hung over the edge and the large towel covered just enough of her lap to hide her 'cookie' .

* 2010 , Lennie Ross, Blow me , Lulu.com (2010), ISBN 9781257133819, page 47:

If she wanted to compete in this dog-eat-pussy world, she had to keep up her personal grooming, even if it meant spreading her legs and letting some Vietnamese woman rip the hair off her cookie every other week.

* 2014 , (Nicki Minaj), "" (Clean Version), (w) :

Cookie put his butt to sleep, now he callin' me Nyquil.

Synonyms

* (cake) (l), (l) (qualifier)

Derived terms

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