cookie

American  

[kook-ee] / ˈkʊk i /

Sometimes cooky

noun

PLURAL

cookies

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 browser cookie.  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.

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verb (used with object)

cookied cookieing, cookying

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

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

idioms

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

cookie British  

/ ˈkʊkɪ /

noun

1. Also called (in Britain and certain other countries): biscuit.  a small flat dry sweet or plain cake of many varieties, baked from a dough

2. 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. informal  matters are inevitably or unalterably so

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cookie Scientific  

/ 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.

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cookie More Idioms  

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

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Etymology

Origin of cookie

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

Example Sentences

She had made money from running kids’ camps, creating balloon installations and baking cookie cakes, and was worried the earnings would be lost.

From The Wall Street Journal

As a result, my first Oreo cookie was exciting and a revelation.

From The Wall Street Journal

I had joked most of my adult life that the only inheritance I wanted from my mother was her magic cookie sheets.

From MarketWatch

One of Mr. Joseph’s interviewees remembers Sondheim pinning an oatmeal-raisin cookie to a speckled piece of pine paneling.

From The Wall Street Journal

The plan would also change data privacy rules aimed at giving everyday users a smoother online experience and cutting down on cookie consent windows.

From The Wall Street Journal

Related Words

• biscuit
• wafer