fortune cookie

noun

: a thin cookie folded to contain a slip of paper on which is printed a fortune, proverb, or humorous statement

Examples of fortune cookie in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Year round — but especially fitting for Lunar New Year — Ford will print a fortune of your dictation and stuff it inside a large breakable chocolate fortune cookie. —Stephanie Breijo, Los Angeles Times, 13 Feb. 2026

At last, although fortune cookies are not Chinese in origin, they are belovedly engrained in the Chinese-American dining culture. —Catharine Kaufman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Feb. 2026

To Porat’s point, OpenFortune shared research that roughly 3 billion fortune cookies are opened each year across restaurants, with a 99% open rate, and 70% of consumers share their fortune at the table, with 6% posting it on social media. —Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 28 Jan. 2026

Reading it is like spending time with a delusional fortune cookie: platitudes that feel like they were run through a translation service three times. —Literary Hub, 17 Dec. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1940, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for fortune cookie

• bookie
• rookie

Kids Definition

fortune cookie

noun

: a thin cookie folded to contain a slip of paper on which is written a fortune