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oly-cook, oly-koek U.S. local.|ˈəʊlɪkʊk|
Also oliekoek, olycoek, -coke.
[a. Du. oliekoek, lit. ‘oil-cake’.]
A cake of dough sweetened and fried in lard: originally a Dutch delicacy.
1809W. Irving Knickerb. (1861) 90 Balls of sweetened dough..called doughnuts, or olykoeks. 1818― Sketch Bk., Leg. Sleepy Hollow (1865) 440 There was the doughty dough-nut, the tenderer oly koek, and the crisp and crumbling cruller. 1851H. Melville Whale lxv. 334 Like old Amsterdam housewives' dough-nuts or oly-cooks. 1881Harper's Mag. Mar. 533/1 His favorite city has surpassed all others in..olie koeks, and New Year cookies. 1889R. T. Cooke Steadfast vi. 78 Refreshing him with hot flip, oly koek, or Indian preserves. 1895Dialect Notes I. 387 In the Dutch-settled districts the word olykoeks, which Washington Irving has made classic, is used for some of the varieties [of doughnut]. 1947R. Berolzheimer et al. U.S. Regional Cook Bk. 138 The doughnut originated in Holland where it was called ‘olie koeken’. |