Oreo

oreo oreó English right|thumb|250px|Oreo cookies Etymology Brand name of en unknown origin, trademarked by National Biscuit Company on 14 March 1912. See the Oreo#Etymology 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". Pronunciation en /ˈɔɹioʊ/ US en En-au-Oreo.ogg AU en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-Oreo.wav US Noun en foods 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. en Oreo cookie en 1984 December Michael Norman The Junk Food Hall of Fame Cincinnati Magazine https://books.google.com/books?id=WR4DAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA67 67 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. en 2022 April 19 Jennifer Chu https://news.mit.edu/2022/oreometer-cream-0419 MIT Engineers Introduce the Oreometer MIT News 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. https://web.archive.org/web/20260924105240/https://news.mit.edu/2022/oreometer-cream-0419 24 September 2026 en-US Sophie Haigney World Cup Tourists Are Giving Americans Exactly What We Crave The New York Times 2026-07-09 https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/09/magazine/world-cup-tourists-tiktok.html 0362-4331 “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. en US pejorative ethnic slur A black person who has overly assimilated into white culture, a black race traitor. en coconut egg Twinkie banana wigger en 1971 Iceberg Slim The Naked Soul of Iceberg Slim Holloway House She's a pure Oreo. You know, like the cookie, black outside and white inside. en https://web.archive.org/web/20070715151903/http://archive.salon.com/mwt/feature/2002/11/26/bap/index.html Salon on BAP like me Nov. 26, 2002 Adrienne Crew 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. Synonyms black person assimilated into white culture See en Uncle Tom Hypernyms cookie en cookie, en snack, en junk food Translations Nabisco cookie brand Arabic: ar أوريو Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 奧利奧 Àolì'ào Dutch: nl Oreo m French: fr Oreo m German: de Oreo m Hebrew: he אוראו Italian: it Oreo m Japanese: ja オレオ Oreo Korean: ko 오레오 Marathi: mr ओरियो Spanish: es Oreo m Swedish: sv Oreo n Thai: th โอรีโอ oo-rii-oo Turkish: tr Oreo Black person assimilated to white culture Dutch: nl bounty m French: fr bounty m Further reading u6aap2q n Oreo (cookie) Anagrams en eoor -eroo oo-er ooer en 3-syllable words en People Racism Snacks Culture