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English

Chocolate-chip cookies.
Soft cookies which do not have chips, fruit or nuts in them.
Layered chocolate cookies.

Pronunciation

  • enPR: ko͝ok'i, IPA(key): /ˈkʊki/
  • (sometimes in Northern England) enPR: ko͞ok'i, IPA(key): /ˈkuːki/
  • Audio (AU)(file)
  • Homophone: kooky (sometimes UK)
  • Rhymes: -ʊki

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) 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.
  4. (computing, Internet) An HTTP cookie.
  5. (computing) A magic cookie.
  6. (slang, dated) An attractive young woman.
  7. (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.
  8. (slang, drugs) A piece of crack cocaine, larger than a rock, and often in the shape of a cookie.
  9. (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.
  10. (informal) Clipping of fortune cookie.
  11. (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
Translations
bun — see bun
HTTP cookie — see HTTP cookie
magic cookie — see magic cookie

Verb

cookie (third-person singular simple present cookies, present participle cookieing or cookying, 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.

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from English cookie.

Pronunciation

Noun

cookie m (plural cookies)

  1. (computing) cookie

References

  1. ^ "cookie" at ésAdir

Dutch

Dutch Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia nl

Etymology

From English cookie, in turn from Dutch koekje, of which it is a doublet.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkuki/
  • Audio(file)
  • Hyphenation: coo‧kie

Noun

cookie n (plural cookies, diminutive cookietje n)

  1. (computing) cookie

French

French Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia fr

Etymology

Borrowed from English cookie.

Pronunciation

Noun

cookie m (plural cookies)

  1. (France) cookie (American-style biscuit)
  2. (computing) cookie
    Hyponyms: témoin de navigation, témoin

Polish

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia pl

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English cookie.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈku.ki/
  • Audio(file)
  • Rhymes: -uki
  • Syllabification: coo‧kie

Noun

cookie n (indeclinable)

  1. (Internet) cookie, HTTP cookie (packet of information sent by a server to browser)
    Synonym: ciasteczko

Further reading

  • cookie in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English cookie.

Pronunciation

Noun

cookie (Brazil) m or (Portugal) f (plural cookies)

  1. (Internet, computing) cookie, HTTP cookie
  2. (Brazil) cookie (American-style biscuit)

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English cookie.

Pronunciation

Noun

cookie m (plural cookies)

  1. (Internet) cookie, HTTP cookie

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

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