Meanings
cookie monster1
plural cookie monsters
- informalA person who eats lots of cookies.
Cookie Monster2
- A blue creature from the children's television show Sesame Street who is intensely fond of cookies.
In his Cookie Monster voice, he screamed, "Bing-go! Jack-pot! Koo-key!"
2009, Denise Dietz, Throw Darts at a Cheesecake, page 1823 more examples
In the first four years I worked at QVC I was a cookie monster and ate myself up twenty-two pounds — that's a lot of chocolate chips.
1995, Kathy Levine, It's Better to Laugh, page 25The cookie monster program would lock up your terminal and endlessly prompt you to "Give me a cookie (or "I WANT A COOKIE" or some variation), and no matter what you typed, it would always insist it wanted a cookie.
2002, Laura Lemay with Rafe Colburn, Sams teach yourself Perl in 21 days, page 20A gene involved in cell division which is named because it makes the cells look like a `whole bunch of cookie monster eyes'.
2008, Paul W. May, Molecules with Silly Or Unusual Names, page 150
Origin
From the Sesame Street character Cookie Monster.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Dutch Koekiemonster
- KoekiemonsterSesame Street character
Finnish Keksimonsteri
- KeksimonsteriSesame Street character
French Macaron le glouton
- Macaron le gloutonSesame Street character
German Krümelmonster
- KrümelmonsterSesame Street character
Hebrew עוגיפלצת
- עוגיפלצת ('ugiflétset)Sesame Street character
Portuguese Come-Come
- Come-ComeSesame Street character
Russian Ко́ржик
- Ко́ржик (Kóržik)Sesame Street character
Spanish Monstruo de las Galletas, Comegalletas
- Monstruo de las GalletasSesame Street character
- ComegalletasSesame Street character
Swedish kakmonstret def sing
- kakmonstret def singSesame Street character
Cite this entry
cookie monster. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cookie%20monster
“cookie monster.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cookie%20monster. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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