cookies

1. 1
   noun

   Plural of cookie.

   The bakery sells fresh cookies every morning.

   She cleared the browser cookies to fix the login problem.

   Note

   The everyday plural, and where you live shapes what it brings to mind. In the US, Canada and the Philippines, cookies are any small, flat baked goods, crisp or soft but firm. In the UK and the Commonwealth, the word leans toward sweet ones baked with chocolate chips, fruit or nuts. In Scotland a cookie can be a bun. Online, cookies are HTTP cookies, the kind a browser stores and you can clear.

2. 2
   verb

   Third-person singular simple present of cookie.

   The platform cookies each shopper to remember items in the cart.

   If the test harness never cookies the client, the session check fails on every request.

   Note

   The computing verb in the present tense: a site or server cookies a user, a browser or a computer by sending it a cookie. It always takes an object, the one that receives the cookie. Because it is spelled exactly like the everyday plural noun, the sentence has to show which one you mean. A server that cookies each visitor is doing something, while cookies in a jar are things.

3. 3
   noundated

   Plural of cooky.

   She wrapped the warm cookies in a cloth for the journey.

   The church social featured homemade cookies and lemonade.

   Note

   One spelling disappears here: cooky and cookie both make cookies, so the dated -y form shows only in the singular. If you want the singular for a baked treat today, write cookie. Cooky also carries an informal meaning used in the plural: what someone has eaten, especially the contents of their stomach. Context tells you whether cookies are on a plate or in someone's stomach.

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