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English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Dutch koekie, dialectal diminutive of koek (“cake”), from Proto-Germanic *kōkô (compare German Low German Kookje (“biscuit, cookie, cracker”), Low German Kook (“cake”), German Kuchen (“cake”)). More at cake. Not related to English cook.

The computing senses derive from magic cookie.

Alternative forms

Noun

cookie (plural cookies)

  1. (Canada, US, Philippines) A small, flat, baked good which is either crisp or soft but firm.
    Synonyms: biscuit, (UK, Australia) bickie
  2. (UK, Commonwealth) A sweet baked good (as in the previous sense) usually having chocolate chips, fruit, nuts, etc. baked into it.
  3. (Scotland) A bun.
  5. (computing, Internet, by ellipsis) An HTTP cookie.
  7. (computing, by ellipsis) A magic cookie.
  8. (slang, dated) An attractive young woman.
  9. (slang, vulgar) The vulva.
    • 1968, Gershon Legman, quoting anonymous informant from New York, 1953, Rationale of the Dirty Joke‎, page 100:
      a little girl was eating a cookie and spitting. “Do you have hair on your cookie?” “Don't be silly. I'm only eleven.”
    • 2009, T. R. Oulds, Story of Many Secret Night‎, Lulu.com, published 2010, →ISBN:
      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, published 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.
  10. (slang, vulgar, LGBTQ) The anus of a man.
  11. (slang, drugs) A piece of crack cocaine, larger than a rock, and often in the shape of a cookie.
    Hypernym: pie
  12. (informal, in the plural) One's eaten food (e.g. lunch, etc.), especially one's stomach contents.
    I lost my cookies after that roller coaster ride.
    I feel sick, like I'm about to toss my cookies.
  13. (informal) Clipping of fortune cookie.
  14. (Northern US) A doughnut; a peel-out or skid mark in the shape of a circle.
Usage notes
  • In North America, a biscuit is a small, soft baked bread similar to a scone but not sweet. In some cases, it can be hard (see dog biscuit). 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, typically 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 in this image (saltine crackers) are called crackers, while thin, crispy, sweet baked goods like in this image (Nilla Wafers) and this image (wafer sticks) 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)
Derived terms
Descendants
  • → Arabic: كُوكِي (kuki)
  • → Armenian: կուկի (kuki)
  • → Cantonese: 曲奇 (kuk1 kei4)
  • → Catalan: cookie
  • → Cebuano: kokis
  • → Dutch: cookie
  • → French: cookie
  • → Georgian: ქუქი (kuki)
  • → German: Cookie
  • → Gujarati: કૂકી (kūkī)
  • → Hawaiian: kuki
  • → Hindi: कुकी (kukī)
  • → Italian: cookie
  • → Japanese: クッキー (kukkī)
  • → Kannada: ಕುಕಿ (kuki)
  • → Khmer: ខូគី (khoukii)
  • → Korean: 쿠키 (kuki)
  • → Malay: kuki
  • → Polish: cookie
  • → Portuguese: cookie
  • → Russian: ку́ки (kúki)
  • → Spanish: cookie
  • → Swahili: kuki
  • → Swedish: cookie
  • → Tagalog: kuki
  • → Telugu: కుకీ (kukī)
  • → Thai: คุกกี้ (kúk-gîi)
  • → Tigrinya: ኩኪ (kuki)
  • → Ukrainian: ку́ки (kúky)
  • → Yiddish: קוקי (kuki)
  • → Yoruba: kúkì
Translations
See also
  • (computing senses): breadcrumb (element that helps to track things digitally)

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.).
    • 2000, Ralph Kimball, Richard Merz, The Data Webhouse Toolkit: Building the Web-Enabled Data Warehouse‎:
      We have already discussed the benefits — even the necessity — of cookieing visitors so that we can track their return visits to our Website.
    • 2002, Jim Sterne, Web Metrics: Proven Methods for Measuring Web Site Success‎:
      At Oracle, they cookie you before and after you register.

See also

Further reading

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

Corruption of cucoloris.

Noun

cookie (plural cookies)

  1. (slang) A cucoloris.
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