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Definition: Fortune Cookie |
Fortune CookieNoun1. (Chinese) thin folded wafer containing a maxim on a slip of paper. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Computing | Fortune cookie n. [WAITS, via Unix; common] A random quote, item of trivia, joke, or maxim printed to the user's tty at login time or (less commonly) at logout time. Items from this lexicon have often been used as fortune cookies. See cookie file. Source: Jargon File. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
It is a Japanese Tea Garden introduction. It was introduced as refreshment to be taken while strolling in the Japanese Tea Garden by Makoto Hagiwara.
This confection is a very old folk art long known in Japan as 'Tsuji ura sembei' and is associated with New Year festivities at Shinto Shrines. This idea was introduced in San Francisco at the Japanese Tea Garden, Golden Gate Park.
The confection, as it is known in Japan, is not sweet. The sweetening of it was done to suit American tastes. This novel idea of receiving a fortune in a light sembei cookie is known throughout Japan and has been known there for many generations. (It was/is a felicitous thing to receive a good luck fortune on the New Year from a local Shrine.) The Hagiwara family was not business oriented and there was never a patent taken out on the fortune cookie in any form (name, rights, cookie itself, or otherwise). During WWII, local Chinese usurped the idea and began to market it as their own.
Fortune cookies are very popular in North American Chinese restaurants, many if not most of which serve them as a dessert with every meal. These fortune cookies often contain, besides fortunes, lucky numbers (used by some as lottery numbers) or even a phrase in Chinese along with its English translation. Fortune cookies are almost unknown in China.
See also: American Chinese cuisine
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Fortune cookie."
Crosswords: Fortune Cookie |
| Specialty definitions using "fortune cookie": cookie file ♦ Hanlon's Razor. (references) |
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Screenplays | Feels like I step on fortune cookie! (Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom; writing credit: George Lucas; Willard Huyck) Now that sounds like a fortune cookie. (Cactus Flower; writing credit: Pierre Barillet; Jean-Pierre Grédy) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Fortune Cookie (1966) Fortune Cookie (1992) | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "fortune cookie"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Portuguese | fado (doom, lot, star). (various references) | |
Spanish | galleta china con un mensaje sobre la suerte. (various references) | |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-f-i-k-n-o-o-o-r-t-u" | |
-4 letters: confiteor, confiture, foretoken, refection. | |
-5 letters: ceinture, confuter, enuretic, erection, fourteen, frenetic, infecter, infector, neoteric, neurotic, reinfect, unerotic. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 6F 72 74 75 6E 65 43 6F 6F 6B 69 65 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01101111 01110010 01110100 01110101 01101110 01100101 00100000 01000011 01101111 01101111 01101011 01101001 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F o r t u n e   C o o k i e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 006F 0072 0074 0075 006E 0065 0043 006F 006F 006B 0069 0065 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)408184868780712378181777571 |
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