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Cookie Monster
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English
Proper noun
Cookie Monster
thumb|Cookie Monster in Hong Kong.
A blue creature from the children's television show Sesame Street who is intensely fond of cookies.
en 1995 Kathy Levine It's Better to Laugh 25 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.
en Sams teach yourself Perl in 21 days 20 Laura Lemay Rafe Colburn 2002 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.
en 2008 Paul W. May Molecules with Silly Or Unusual Names 150 A gene involved in cell division which is named because it makes the cells look like a `whole bunch of cookie monster eyes'.
en 2009 Denise Dietz Throw Darts at a Cheesecake 182 In his Cookie Monster voice, he screamed, "Bing-go! Jack-pot! Koo-key!"
Translations
Sesame Street character
Dutch: nl Koekiemonster m
Finnish: fi Keksimonsteri
French: fr Macaron le glouton m
German: de Krümelmonster
Hebrew: he עוגיפלצת m 'ugiflétset
Portuguese: pt Come-Come
Russian: ru Ко́ржик m
Spanish: es Monstruo de las Galletas m, es Comegalletas m
Swedish: kakmonstret def sing
en Fictional characters Muppets