cookie

[ koo k-ee ]

/ ˈkʊk i /

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noun

a small cake made from stiff, sweet dough rolled and sliced or dropped by spoonfuls on a large, flat pan (cookie sheet) and baked.

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

Slang.

a person: a smart cookie; a tough cookie.
an alluring young woman.

Computers. a message, or segment of data, containing information about a user, sent by a web server to a browser and sent back to the server each time the browser requests a web page.

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

Scot. a bun.

Words nearby cookie

cookery, cookery book, cookery stove, cookeville, cookhouse, cookie, cookie cutter, cookie jar, cookie press, cookie sheet, cookie-cutter

Idioms for cookie

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

Sometimes cook·y.

Origin of cookie

1695–1705; < Dutch koekie, dialectal variant of koekje, equivalent to koek cake + -je diminutive suffix

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Examples from the Web for cookie

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
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

“Oh God, that was so much fun,” Sheehy says, wedging a cookie between two heaping scoops of ice cream—dessert.
Gail Sheehy Books Passage to the Past|Lizzie Crocker|September 3, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Nat has something on his mind, Ill wager a cookie, whispered Ben to Dave.
Dave Porter on Cave Island|Edward Stratemeyer
So Nicknack had the cookie, and then Teddy drove him over and around the pond.
The Curlytops Snowed In|Howard R. Garis
He was here peelin' 'taters for supper, cookie says, jest b'fore we landed.
Ruth Fielding on Cliff Island|Alice Emerson
Mrs. Alder gave her a cookie for her pay, and said she had done very well.
Clematis|Bertha B. Cobb
Then, while Teddy and Janet fed cabbage leaves and pieces of cookie to their goat, their father read aloud the short note.
The Curlytops Snowed In|Howard R. Garis

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

Science 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.

Idioms and Phrases with cookie

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