cookie pushern.

Brit.

/ˈkʊkɪ ˌpʊʃə/, U.S.

/ˈkʊki ˌpʊʃər/

Forms: see cookie n. and pusher n.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: cookie n., pusher n.

Etymology: < cookie n. + pusher n.

U.S. slang (chiefly depreciative).

1. A fashionable and somewhat effeminate young man who enjoys socializing with women at tea parties or other social events. Cf. cake eater n. (b) at cake n. and adj. Compounds 3. Now rare.

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1922 Atchison (Kansas) Daily Globe 17 July 3/7 A cookie pusher is a young man who can't juggle anything heavier than a cookie.

1923 Transit (State University of Iowa) Jan. 67/1 We can't decide which is the more detestable in a barber shop—a girl having her hair bobbed or a cookie pusher with knickers.

1923 Printing Art Feb. 560/1 Louis XV in the slang of today was a ‘cookie pusher’ and a ‘tea hound’. Unhappy with his own kind, he was a glorified ‘petticoat chaser’ de luxe.

1944 Bluefield (W. Va.) Daily Tel. 8 Oct. (Sports section) 1 One of the blonde gal soda jerkers of a downtown drug store was surrounded by a group of hanger-on cookie pushers last evening.

2. A diplomat employed by the U.S. State Department, esp. one regarded as being excessively occupied with entertaining dignitaries and doing little meaningful work.

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1924 Daily Times Enterprise (Thomasville, Georgia) 17 Jan. 8/3 White spats, tea drinkers and cookie pushers should be eliminated from the diplomatic corps, Hugh Gibson, minister to Poland, told the House foreign affairs committee.

1942 Laredo (Texas) Times 31 May (Pan-American press conference section) 4/3 The opinion is that the new Ambassador Messersmith is a good man who knows his business, but that his staff is far below par, being composed mainly of cookie pushers and protocol practitioners.

1962 Economist 29 Sept. 1211/3 The popular image of the cookie-pusher in Foggy Bottom, the State Department's Washington home, gets a proper corrective.

2007 Washington Post (Nexis) 27 Oct. (Met 2 ed.) ao1 Kashkett said..that ‘thousands’ of diplomats have volunteered for Iraq over the past five years. ‘We're not weenies, we're not cowards, we're not cookie pushers in Europe,’ he said.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	cookie pusher
释义	cookie pushern. Brit. /ˈkʊkɪ ˌpʊʃə/, U.S. /ˈkʊki ˌpʊʃər/ Forms: see cookie n. and pusher n. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: cookie n., pusher n. Etymology: < cookie n. + pusher n. U.S. slang (chiefly depreciative). 1. A fashionable and somewhat effeminate young man who enjoys socializing with women at tea parties or other social events. Cf. cake eater n. (b) at cake n. and adj. Compounds 3. Now rare. ΚΠ 1922 Atchison (Kansas) Daily Globe 17 July 3/7 A cookie pusher is a young man who can't juggle anything heavier than a cookie. 1923 Transit (State University of Iowa) Jan. 67/1 We can't decide which is the more detestable in a barber shop—a girl having her hair bobbed or a cookie pusher with knickers. 1923 Printing Art Feb. 560/1 Louis XV in the slang of today was a ‘cookie pusher’ and a ‘tea hound’. Unhappy with his own kind, he was a glorified ‘petticoat chaser’ de luxe. 1944 Bluefield (W. Va.) Daily Tel. 8 Oct. (Sports section) 1 One of the blonde gal soda jerkers of a downtown drug store was surrounded by a group of hanger-on cookie pushers last evening. 2. A diplomat employed by the U.S. State Department, esp. one regarded as being excessively occupied with entertaining dignitaries and doing little meaningful work. ΚΠ 1924 Daily Times Enterprise (Thomasville, Georgia) 17 Jan. 8/3 White spats, tea drinkers and cookie pushers should be eliminated from the diplomatic corps, Hugh Gibson, minister to Poland, told the House foreign affairs committee. 1942 Laredo (Texas) Times 31 May (Pan-American press conference section) 4/3 The opinion is that the new Ambassador Messersmith is a good man who knows his business, but that his staff is far below par, being composed mainly of cookie pushers and protocol practitioners. 1962 Economist 29 Sept. 1211/3 The popular image of the cookie-pusher in Foggy Bottom, the State Department's Washington home, gets a proper corrective. 2007 Washington Post (Nexis) 27 Oct. (Met 2 ed.) ao1 Kashkett said..that ‘thousands’ of diplomats have volunteered for Iraq over the past five years. ‘We're not weenies, we're not cowards, we're not cookie pushers in Europe,’ he said. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1922
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