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kex.

cookie, cracker, (UK) biscuit

3 characters1 syllables approx.Íslenska language

Meaning & usage

noun[ˈcʰɛks]
  1. cookie, cracker, (UK) biscuit

    neuter
Where this word comes from

Borrowed from Danish kiks (“cracker”) (older keks), in turn borrowed from English cakes, plural of cake, Middle English cake, kake, which was itself borrowed from the ancestor of Icelandic, Old Norse: kex is therefore a doublet of kaka. Further back from Proto-Germanic *kakǭ.

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