cookie

[ kook-ee ]

noun

, plural cook·ies

1. a small, usually round and flat cake, the size of an individual portion, made from stiff, sweetened dough, and baked.
2. Informal. dear; sweetheart (a term of address, usually connoting affection).
3. Slang.
   1. a person, usually of a specified character or type:

      a smart cookie;

      a tough cookie.

   2. an alluring young woman.
4. Also called http cookie;. 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.

5. South Atlantic States (chiefly North Carolina). a doughnut.
6. Scot. a bun.

verb (used with object)

cookieing or cookyingcookied

1. Digital Technology. to assign a cookie or cookies to (a website user):

   I'm not really comfortable being cookied all the time.

cookie

/ ˈkʊkɪ /

noun

1. a small flat dry sweet or plain cake of many varieties, baked from a dough Also called (in Britain and certain other countries)biscuit
2. See bun
   a Scot word for bun
3. informal.
   a person

   smart cookie

4. 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
5. that's the way the cookie crumbles informal.
   that's the way the cookie crumbles matters are inevitably or unalterably so

cookie

/ kk′ē /

1. 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.

Word History and Origins

Origin of cookie¹

First recorded in 1750–55; from Dutch koekie, dialectal variant of koekje, equivalent to koek “biscuit, cake” + -je diminutive suffix; cake none

Word History and Origins

Origin of cookie¹

C18: from Dutch koekje, diminutive of koek cake

Idioms and Phrases

Idioms

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

More idioms and phrases containing cookie

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

Example Sentences

Many brands are now waking up to the deprecation of cookies.

From 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.

From 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.

From Washington Post

Now, its attempt to replace the cookie is attracting regulatory attention.

From Digiday

That high fiber content weighs down breads and results in cookies that are toothsome, to put it gently.

From Outside Online

There was also the grapefruit diet, the cabbage soup diet, and the cookie diet.

From The Daily Beast

And “om nom nom nom” is more of a dig at Cookie Monster and Instagram foodies than it is at anyone else.

From The Daily Beast

A personal favorite is “C Is For Cookie” for guiding me through a 1994 playground debate over how to spell the word.

From The Daily Beast

In the early 1900s, stores in Mexican towns and cities began selling cookie-and-sugar calaveras, or skulls.

From The Daily Beast

Cookie Monster has always been one of the most beloved features of that PBS childhood staple, Sesame Street.

From The Daily Beast

You know this is the first day of school and you can't run for a cookie if you get hungry.

From Project Gutenberg

She had a kettle of doughnuts a frying, and a whole lot of cookie paste ready to cut out and bake.

From Project Gutenberg

They had dismissed him, scornfully, stolen cookie in hand—but maybe it would be a bigger cookie than they dreamed!

From Project Gutenberg

Place one teaspoonful of filling on each cookie, cover with another cookie, press edges together.

From Project Gutenberg

"Stow that drivel, cookie," growled a voice which I recognized as belonging to the older Fleming.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• biscuit
• wafer