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Wafer vs Cookie - What's the difference?

wafer | cookie |

As nouns the difference between wafer and cookie

is that wafer is a light, thin, flat biscuit while cookie is a small, flat, baked cake which is either crisp or soft but firm (often with chocolate chips, candies or nuts mixed in).

As a verb wafer

is to seal or close with a wafer.

wafer

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A light, thin, flat biscuit.
  • (religion) A thin disk of consecrated unleavened bread used in communion.
  • A soft disk originally made of flour, and later of gelatin or a similar substance, used to seal letters, attach papers etc.
  • * 1749 , (Henry Fielding), Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, p. 202:
    • The house supplied him with a wafer for his present purpose, with which, having sealed his letter, he returned hastily towards the brook side, in order to search for the things which he had there lost.
  • (electronics) A thin disk of silicon or other semiconductor on which an electronic circuit is produced.

    • Derived terms

    * waferless * waferlike * wafery

    Synonyms

    * (religion) host

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To seal or close with a wafer.
    • ----

    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

    , (l) , (l) , (l) , (l) , (l) , (l) , (l) , , (l)}}

    See also

    * (l) (UK) * * * ----