cookieholic
nounEtymology From cookie + -holic.
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Informal, Sometimes A person who is intensely fond of cookies.
- The joy of cookies is one thing, but to the true cookieholic, there is something better…far better, in fact. So much better that it's something my kids have learned they must never touch, for fear of incurring the wrath of their cookieholic father.2001, Gary E. Anderson, Spider's Night on the Boom: And Other Fiascos, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 29:
- As a recovering cookieholic, I really was not interested in buying any. However, as I yielded to temptation, I focused on the healthy ones, with fiber and such.2002, Phil Lempert, Being the Shopper: Understanding the Buyer's Choice, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 40:
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- A self-declared chocolate lover and “cookieholic,” at age eighty-six Brown weighed 125 pounds, not her almost lifelong 100 pounds, and she tried only occasionally, and generally unsuccessfully, to diet her way back to her preferred weight.2009, Jennifer Scanlon, chapter 11, in Bad Girls Go Everywhere: The Life of Helen Gurley Brown, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 205: