cookie

See also: Cookie

English

Pronunciation

  • enPR: ko͝ok'i, IPA(key): /ˈkʊki/
  • Rhymes: -ʊki

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Dutch koekje (possibly through dialectal variation koekie), diminutive of koek (cake), from Proto-Germanic *kōkô (compare Low German Low German Kook, German German Kuchen). More at cake. Not related to cook.

Alternative forms

Chocolate-chip cookies (both US and UK).
Soft cookies (both US and UK) which do not have chips, fruit or nuts in them.
Layered chocolate cookies (US only).

Noun

cookie (plural cookies)

  1. (Canada, US) a small, flat, baked good which is either crisp or soft but firm
    Synonyms: biscuit, bickie (UK, Australia)
  2. (Britain) a sweet baked good (as in the previous sense) which (usually) has chocolate chips, fruit, nuts, etc. baked into it
  3. (Scotland) a bun
  4. (computing, Internet) an HTTP cookie, web cookie
  5. (computing) a magic cookie
  6. (dated, possibly offensive) a young, attractive woman
  7. (slang, vulgar) the female genitalia
    • 2009, T. R. Oulds, Story of Many Secret Night, Lulu.com (2010), →ISBN, unnumbered page:
      Her legs hung over the edge and the large towel covered just enough of her lap to hide her 'cookie'.
    • 2010, Lennie Ross, Blow me, Lulu.com (2010), →ISBN, page 47:
      If she wanted to compete in this dog-eat-pussy world, she had to keep up her personal grooming, even if it meant spreading her legs and letting some Vietnamese woman rip the hair off her cookie every other week.
    • 2014, Nicki Minaj, "Anaconda" (Clean Version), The Pinkprint:
      Cookie put his butt to sleep, now he callin' me Nyquil.
Usage notes
  • In North America, a biscuit is a small, soft baked bread similar to a scone but not sweet. In the United Kingdom, a biscuit is a small, crisp or firm, sweet baked good the sort of thing which in North America is called a cookie. (Less frequently, British speakers refer to crackers as biscuits.) In North America, even small, layered baked sweets like Oreos are referred to as cookies, while in the UK, only those biscuits which have chocolate chips, nuts, fruit, or other things baked into them are also called cookies.
  • Throughout the English-speaking world, thin, crispy, salty or savoury baked breads like these are called crackers, while thin, crispy, sweet baked goods like these and these are wafers.
  • Both the US and the UK distinguish crackers, wafers and cookies/biscuits from cakes: the former are generally hard or crisp and become soft when stale, while the latter is generally soft or moist and becomes hard when stale.
Hyponyms
gastronomy: Hyponyms of cookie (noun)
computing, Internet: Hyponyms of cookie (noun)
  • first-party cookie
  • persistent cookie
  • session cookie
  • third-party cookie
Derived terms
Descendants
Translations

Verb

cookie (third-person singular simple present cookies, present participle cookieing, simple past and past participle cookied)

  1. (computing, transitive) To send a cookie to (a user, computer, etc.).

See also

Etymology 2

From cook + -ie.

Noun

cookie (plural cookies)

  1. (dated, colloquial) Affectionate name for a cook.
    • 1954, Blackwood's Magazine (volumes 275-276, page 340)
      More than a little apprehensive myself, I went out to the kitchen. Cookie, deep in a murder story, rocked peacefully beside the glowing range.
    • 1988, Roald Dahl, Matilda
      "You must show cookie here how grateful you are for all the trouble she's taken."
      The boy didn't move.
      "Go on, get on with it," the Trunchbull said. "Cut a slice and taste it. We haven't got all day."

Etymology 3

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Noun

cookie (plural cookies)

  1. (slang) a cucoloris

Catalan

Noun

cookie m (plural cookies)

  1. (computing) cookie

Dutch

Etymology

From English cookie, in turn from Dutch koekje.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkuki/
  • (file)

Noun

cookie n (plural cookies, diminutive cookietje n)

  1. (computing) cookie

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English cookie.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ku.ki/
  • (file)

Noun

cookie m (plural cookies)

  1. (France) cookie (American-style biscuit)
  2. (computing) cookie

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from English cookie.

Noun

cookie n (plural cookies)

  1. cookie, a packet of information sent by a server to browser

Synonyms


Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English cookie.

Noun

cookie m (plural cookies)

  1. (Internet) cookie (data sent from a website and stored in a user's web browser while the user is browsing that website)
  2. an American-style cookie (small, flat baked good)

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English cookie.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkuki/

Noun

cookie m (plural cookies)

  1. (Internet) cookie, HTTP cookie
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