cookie
Pluralcookies
Pluralcookies
Formscookies, cookieing, cookied
- 1A small, flat sweet treat that is baked until crisp or soft.
She baked a fresh batch of cookies for the school fair.
He grabbed a cookie from the jar before dinner.
UsageIn Britain, people often say biscuit.
Similarbiscuit
- 2A small piece of data a website or program saves and sends back to remember who you are.
Like a name tag a website gives your computer so it knows you next time.
The website used a cookie to remember my login.
Clear your cookies if the page won't load right.
UsageOften accept cookies or clear cookies.
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- 3Short for fortune cookie: a crisp folded cookie with a short message on paper inside.
At the end of the meal, each of us cracked open a cookie and read the message inside.
She laughed at the silly message hidden in her cookie.
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- 4A person of a certain type, used after a word like tough or smart.
My grandma is a tough cookie and never gives up.
You fixed the computer in five minutes? You're a smart cookie!
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Less common meanings
- 5To send a cookie to a user's web browser or computer.
Like giving someone a name tag so you recognize them when they come back.
The site will cookie your browser when you log in.
Many pages cookie visitors to track their settings.
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- 6The food someone has eaten, especially what is sitting in their stomach.
The greasy food made him sick, and he lost his cookies in the parking lot.
The boat ride was so rough that I almost lost my cookies.
UsageOften toss your cookies: be sick.
- 7A friendly nickname for a cook, often on a ship or in an army camp.
On the cattle drive, Cookie made beans and biscuits every night.
More than a little apprehensive myself, I went out to the kitchen. Cookie, deep in a murder story, rocked peacefully beside the glowing range.
1954, Blackwood's Magazine, volumes 275-276Here, Cookie is a friendly nickname for the cook.UsageUsed like a name: Cookie.
Similarcook
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- 8A rude slang word for the vulva, the outer parts of the female genitals.
She told him to keep his hands to himself and stop talking about her cookie.
He made a crude joke about her cookie, and she walked off.
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- 10A piece of crack cocaine that is bigger than a rock and shaped like a round disk.
Police found a cookie of crack hidden in the car.
The dealer cut one cookie into many small rocks to sell.
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- 11A round skid mark made by spinning a car's tires in a circle.
He spun the car around and left a big cookie on the empty lot.
The teens did cookies in the snowy parking lot last night.
UsageSay do cookies.
Similardoughnut
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- 13A rude slang word for a man's bottom or anus.
- 14A board with holes or shapes cut out, placed in front of a light to make patterned shadows.
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Origins
It comes from Dutch koekie, a small form of koek meaning "cake." It is not related to the word cook.
Checked 31 Oct 2026 · 3 facts
- Cookie, meaning the baked food, comes from Dutch koekie. en.wiktionary.org
- Dutch koekie is a diminutive of koek, meaning cake. en.wiktionary.org
- Cookie, meaning the baked food, is etymologically unrelated to cook. en.wiktionary.org
From the word cook plus the ending -ie.
Checked 31 Oct 2026 · 1 fact
- Cookie, as an affectionate name for a cook, derives from cook plus the suffix -ie. en.wiktionary.org