cookie
[koo k-ee]
- 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.
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- toss/spill one's cookies, Slang. to vomit.
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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
Contemporary Examples
There was also the grapefruit diet, the cabbage soup diet, and the cookie diet.
And “om nom nom nom” is more of a dig at Cookie Monster and Instagram foodies than it is at anyone else.
A personal favorite is “C Is For Cookie” for guiding me through a 1994 playground debate over how to spell the word.
Cookie Monster has always been one of the most beloved features of that PBS childhood staple, Sesame Street.
“Oh God, that was so much fun,” Sheehy says, wedging a cookie between two heaping scoops of ice cream—dessert.
Historical Examples
There was always an open sesame to the cookie jar and the apple barrel.
David DunneBelle Kanaris Maniates
The girl studied him for a moment, then she picked up a cookie and gave it to him.
Foundling on VenusJohn de Courcy
You know this is the first day of school and you can't run for a cookie if you get hungry.
PatchworkAnna Balmer Myers
"Only eight," mumbled Myra, with her mouth full of cookie crumbs.
Tabitha's VacationRuth Alberta Brown
It was a fact that Cayke the Cookie Cook was not a heavy person.
The Lost Princess of OzL. Frank Baum
cookie
cooky
- 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
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Word Origin
C18: from Dutch koekje, diminutive of koek cake
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Word Origin and History for cookie
n.
1703, American English, from Dutch koekje "little cake," diminutive of koek "cake," from Middle Dutch koke (see cake (n.)). Slang application to persons attested since 1920. Phrase that's the way the cookie crumbles "that's the way things happen" is from 1957.
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Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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.
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Idioms and Phrases with cookie
cookie
see hand in the till (cookie jar); that's how the ball bounces (cookie crumbles); toss one's cookies.
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