# cookie

Pronunciation: US say "KUU-kee" /ˈkʊki/; AUS say "KUUK-ee" /ˈkʊki/

## Noun

1. A small baked treat, flat in shape and either crunchy or soft yet still firm. *(Canada, Philippines, US)*
   - Simple: A small, flat sweet treat that is baked until crisp or soft.
   - _The diner served a plate of cookies, crisp at the edges and chewy in the middle._
   - _She arranged each cookie on a tray for the bake sale._
2. A small piece of data that a website or program stores and later sends back, used to identify a user or session and remember information.
   - Simple: A small piece of data a website or program saves and sends back to remember who you are.
   - _The site stored a cookie so it could keep her shopping cart between visits._
   - _Privacy settings let users block third-party cookies that track browsing._
3. Short for fortune cookie: a crisp folded cookie holding a slip of paper with a prediction or saying, often served after meals at Chinese restaurants. *(colloquial)* — Clipping of fortune cookie.
   - Simple: Short for fortune cookie: a crisp folded cookie with a short message on paper inside.
   - _He cracked the cookie open and read his fortune aloud._
   - _The restaurant gives every table a cookie with a printed prediction inside._
6. The food one has eaten, especially the contents of one's stomach. *(colloquial)*
   - Simple: The food someone has eaten, especially what is sitting in their stomach.
   - _The roller coaster nearly made her lose her cookies._
   - _After three rides on the roller coaster, he tossed his cookies behind the ticket booth._
8. Vulgar slang for the vulva, the external female genitalia. *(slang)*
   - Simple: A rude slang word for the vulva, the outer parts of the female genitals.
   - _The rapper's lyrics about her cookie sparked complaints from listeners._
   - _The comedian's set was mostly crude jokes about his girlfriend's cookie, and half the audience walked out._
10. A piece of crack cocaine larger than a single rock, often formed into a round, cookie-shaped lump. *(slang)*
   - Simple: A piece of crack cocaine that is bigger than a rock and shaped like a round disk.
   - _The dealer broke a cookie into smaller rocks for individual sale._
   - _Detectives said each cookie of crack would be broken into dozens of smaller rocks for sale._
11. A circular skid mark or peel-out left on the road by spinning a vehicle's tires; a doughnut. *(dialectal, Northern US)*
   - Simple: A round skid mark made by spinning a car's tires in a circle.
   - _The driver stomped the gas and carved a perfect cookie into the asphalt._
   - _Bored teenagers spent the night doing cookies in the empty parking lot._
12. A small, soft, round bread roll or bun. *(dialectal, Scotland)*
   - Simple: A small, soft, round bread roll.
   - _He split a cookie and filled it with butter and jam._
   - _He bought a soft cookie at the Glasgow bakery and filled it with ham and cheese for lunch._
4. Someone of the particular sort named by the word before it, as in a tough cookie or a smart cookie.
   - Simple: A person of a certain type, used after a word like tough or smart.
   - _He's a smart cookie, so I doubt the scam fooled him for long._
   - _The new manager is one tough cookie; nobody argues with her a second time._

## Verb

5. To send a cookie to a user, browser, or computer, usually to store data for later retrieval.
   - Simple: To send a cookie to a user's web browser or computer.
   - _The platform cookies each new user on their first visit._
   - _Advertisers cookie browsers to follow people across different sites._

## Noun

7. An affectionate, dated nickname for a cook, especially a ship's or camp cook. *(dated)*
   - Simple: A friendly nickname for a cook, often on a ship or in an army camp.
   - _The ranch hands crowded around the chuck wagon, where Cookie already had a pot of coffee going._
   - _Every morning at camp, Cookie had the coffee boiling before the rest of the crew woke up._
9. Dated slang for an attractive young woman. *(dated)*
   - Simple: An old-fashioned slang word for a pretty, attractive young woman.
   - _He showed up to the party with a real cookie on his arm._
   - _In the old black-and-white movie, a sailor grins and calls her a cute little cookie._

## Other meanings

- (noun) Vulgar slang for the anus, specifically a man's.
- (noun) In filmmaking, a cut-out board placed before a light source to project patterned shadows onto a scene; a cucoloris.

## Origin

**Meanings 1–6, 8–12** — Borrowed from Dutch koekie, a dialectal diminutive of koek ("cake"), from Proto-Germanic *kōkô, related to German Kuchen ("cake"). It is not related to English cook, and the computing senses come from magic cookie.
**Meaning 7** — Formed from cook combined with the suffix -ie.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/cookie (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).