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Keks

noun · /keːks/ ·
Etymology

Borrowed from English cakes, 1900s. Popularized by German food company Bahlsen which changed the brand name of their biscuits from Leibniz-Cakes to Leibniz-Keks in 1911; at the time, the plural was also Keks. Compare Danish kiks, Estonian keeks, Faroese keks, Finnish keksi, Icelandic kex, Norwegian kjeks, and Swedish kex, all ‘cookie, biscuit, cracker’.

Translation

  1. cookie (US), biscuit (UK) masculine, neuter, strong

    Da sitzt leibhaftig Schillers Schwester: eine rötliche Blondine, noch ganz jung, die vor mir aus dem Fenster guckt und einen Keks zerbeißt.

    Schiller’s sister incarnate is sitting there: a strawberry blonde, still very young, looking out of the window in front of me and biting into a cookie.

    Immer breitere Publikumsschichten gehen zum Konsum der Fabrikskekssorten über, die qualitativ besser und billiger sind, als die im Privathaushalt hergestellten Kekse.

    Ever broader classes of the public are going over to the consumption of factory-made cookie types that are qualitatively better and cheaper than cookies made in private homes.

    1968, Arbeitsgemeinschaft Getreideforschung, Brot und Gebäck, volumes 22-24, p. 45

    In reality, however, the atmospheric conditions in the oven, to the extent they can be known at all, do not directly determine the baking development of the bread or cookie.

Declension

CaseSingularPlural
Nominative Keks Kekse
Accusative Keks Kekse
Dative Keks Keksen
Genitive Kekses Kekse