Oreo

Etymology
Brand name of origin, trademarked by  on 14 March 1912. See the section of 's Oreo article for various theories. In reference to well-assimilated blacks, derived from the slur that they are "black on the outside, white on the inside".

Noun

 * 1)  A cookie made of two wafers joined with a sugary filling, particularly a  cookie with two alkalized cocoa-powder wafers around a white creme filling.
 * 2) * 1984 December, Michael Norman, "Junk Food", Cincinnati, p. 67:
 * The Oreo is really an antidepressant drug disguised as a cookie. You lost your job? Eat a bag of Oreos... There are two ways to eat Oreos. Kids like to pull the chocolate wafers apart and eat the sweat, creamy middle first. Adults dunk them in milk.
 * 1) * 2022 April 19, Jennifer Chu, "MIT Engineers Introduce the Oreometer", MIT News:
 * While Oreo cream may not appear to possess fluid-like properties, it is considered a "yield stress fluid"&mdash;a soft solid when unperturbed that can start to flow under enough stress... Curious as to whether other had explored the connection between Oreos and rheology, Owens found mention of a 2016 study in which physicists first reported that indeed, when twisting Oreos by hand, the cream almost always came off on one wafer.
 * 1)  A black person considered to have overly assimilated to white culture, a black race traitor.

Synonyms

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Translations

 * Arabic: أوريو
 * Chinese:
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 * Dutch: Oreo
 * French: Oreo
 * German: Oreo
 * Hebrew: אוראו
 * Italian: Oreo
 * Japanese: オレオ
 * Marathi: ओरियो
 * Spanish: Oreo
 * Swedish: Oreo
 * Thai: โอรีโอ
 * Turkish: Oreo