cookie

[ kook-ee ]

/ ˈkʊk i /

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noun, plural cook·ies

a small, usually round and flat cake, the size of an individual portion, made from stiff, sweetened dough, and baked.

Informal. dear; sweetheart (a term of address, usually connoting affection).

Slang.

a person, usually of a specified character or type: a smart cookie; a tough cookie.
an alluring young woman.

Also called http cook·ie, brows·er cook·ie .Digital Technology. a file or segment of data that identifies a unique user over time and across interactions with a website, sent by the web server through a browser, stored on a user’s hard drive, and sent back to the server each time the browser requests a web page: Your browser will run more efficiently after you clear the cache and cookies.

South Atlantic States (chiefly North Carolina). a doughnut.

Scot. a bun.

verb (used with object), cook·ied,cook·ie·ing or cook·y·ing.

Digital Technology. to assign a cookie or cookies to (a website user): I'm not really comfortable being cookied all the time.

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Idioms about cookie

toss / spill one's cookies, Slang. to vomit.

Sometimes cook·y .

Origin of cookie

First recorded in 1750–55; from Dutch koekie, dialectal variant of koekje, equivalent to koek “biscuit, cake” + -je diminutive suffix; see origin at cake

Words nearby cookie

cookery book, cookery stove, Cookeville, cook-general, cookhouse, cookie, cookie cutter, cookie jar, cookie press, cookies, cookie sheet

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How to use cookie in a sentence

Many brands are now waking up to the deprecation of cookies.
Media Briefing: Facebook pivots away from politics –publishers say ‘we’re just along for the ride’|Tim Peterson|February 11, 2021|Digiday
These are included to support items that might otherwise crumble or melt through the oven’s internal rack during the cooking process, such as cookies, pizza, or egg-based dishes.
Best toaster oven: Save counter space and time with our toaster oven picks|Julian Cubilllos|February 5, 2021|Popular-Science
The penguin, according to my unscientific interpretation, was trying to share its seafood meal with me, like splitting a cookie with a friend.
In ‘The Whispering Land,’ a British naturalist collects travel tales — and animals with tails — in Argentina|Andrea Sachs|February 4, 2021|Washington Post
Now, its attempt to replace the cookie is attracting regulatory attention.
Why Google’s approach to replacing the cookie is drawing antitrust scrutiny|Kate Kaye|February 2, 2021|Digiday

That high fiber content weighs down breads and results in cookies that are toothsome, to put it gently.
We Found a High-Fiber Flour That's Actually Tasty|AC Shilton|February 1, 2021|Outside Online
There was also the grapefruit diet, the cabbage soup diet, and the cookie diet.
Why Your New Year’s Diet Will Fail|Carrie Arnold|December 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST
And “om nom nom nom” is more of a dig at Cookie Monster and Instagram foodies than it is at anyone else.
Feminist, Bae, Turnt: Time’s ‘Worst Words’ List Is Sexist and Racist|Samantha Allen|November 13, 2014|DAILY BEAST
A personal favorite is “C Is For Cookie” for guiding me through a 1994 playground debate over how to spell the word.
‘Sesame Street’ Is Middle-Aged and Awesome|Emily Shire|November 10, 2014|DAILY BEAST
In the early 1900s, stores in Mexican towns and cities began selling cookie-and-sugar calaveras, or skulls.
New Orleans’ Carnivalesque Day of the Dead|Jason Berry|November 1, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Cookie Monster has always been one of the most beloved features of that PBS childhood staple, Sesame Street.
Cookie Monster Stars in Harry Potter Parody|Jack Holmes, The Daily Beast Video|October 28, 2014|DAILY BEAST
You know this is the first day of school and you can't run for a cookie if you get hungry.
Patchwork|Anna Balmer Myers
She had a kettle of doughnuts a frying, and a whole lot of cookie paste ready to cut out and bake.
A California Girl|Edward Eldridge
They had dismissed him, scornfully, stolen cookie in hand—but maybe it would be a bigger cookie than they dreamed!
The Colors of Space|Marion Zimmer Bradley
Place one teaspoonful of filling on each cookie, cover with another cookie, press edges together.
The New Dr. Price Cookbook|Anonymous
"Stow that drivel, cookie," growled a voice which I recognized as belonging to the older Fleming.
The Pirate of Panama|William MacLeod Raine

British Dictionary definitions for cookie

cooky

/ (ˈkʊkɪ) /

noun plural -ies

US and Canadian a small flat dry sweet or plain cake of many varieties, baked from a doughAlso called (in Britain and certain other countries): biscuit

a Scot word for bun

informal a personsmart cookie

computing a piece of data downloaded to a computer by a website, containing details of the preferences of that computer's user which identify the user when revisiting that website

that's the way the cookie crumbles informal matters are inevitably or unalterably so

Word Origin for cookie

C18: from Dutch koekje, diminutive of koek cake

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Scientific definitions for cookie

[ kuk′ē ]

A collection of information, usually including a username and the current date and time, stored on the local computer of a person using the World Wide Web, used chiefly by websites to identify users who have previously registered or visited the site. Cookies are used to relate one computer transaction to a later one.

Other Idioms and Phrases with cookie

see hand in the till (cookie jar); that's how the ball bounces (cookie crumbles); toss one's cookies.