cookieholicとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

cookieholic (複数形 cookieholics)

1. (informal, sometimes attributive) A person who is intensely fond of cookies.
   • 2001, Gary E. Anderson, Spider's Night on the Boom: And Other Fiascos, iUniverse, →ISBN, 29:

     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.

   • 2002, Phil Lempert, Being the Shopper: Understanding the Buyer's Choice, John Wiley & Sons (2002), →ISBN, page 40:

     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.

   • 2009, Jennifer Scanlon, Bad Girls Go Everywhere: The Life of Helen Gurley Brown, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, chapter 11, 205:

     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.