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cookie
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: ko?ok'i, IPA(key): /?k?ki/
- (sometimes in Northern England) enPR: ko?ok'i, IPA(key): /?ku?ki/
- Homophone: kooky (sometimes, UK)
- Rhymes: -?ki
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Dutch koekje (possibly through dialectal variation koekie), diminutive of koek (“cake”), from Proto-Germanic *k?kô (compare Low German Kook, German Kuchen). More at cake. Not related to English cook.
Alternative forms
- cookey, cooky (uncommon)
Noun
cookie (plural cookies)
- (Canada, US) A small, flat, baked good which is either crisp or soft but firm.
- Synonyms: biscuit, (UK, Australia) bickie
- (Britain, Commonwealth of Nations) A sweet baked good (as in the previous sense) usually having chocolate chips, fruit, nuts, etc. baked into it.
- (Scotland) A bun.
- (computing, Internet) An HTTP cookie.
- (computing) A magic cookie.
- (slang, dated) An attractive young woman.
- (slang, vulgar) The female genitalia.
- 2009, T. R. Oulds, Story of Many Secret Night, Lulu.com (2010), ?ISBN, unnumbered page:
- 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 (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.
- 2009, T. R. Oulds, Story of Many Secret Night, Lulu.com (2010), ?ISBN, unnumbered page:
- (slang, drugs) A piece of crack cocaine, larger than a rock, and often in the shape of a cookie.
Usage notes
- In North America, a biscuit is a small, soft baked bread similar to a scone but not sweet. 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 sandwich 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 these are called crackers, while thin, crispy, sweet baked goods like these and these 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
Derived terms
- supercookie
Descendants
Related terms
Translations
Verb
cookie (third-person singular simple present cookies, present participle cookieing or cookying, simple past and past participle cookied)
- (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.
- 2000, Ralph Kimball, Richard Merz, The Data Webhouse Toolkit: Building the Web-Enabled Data Warehouse
See also
- cracker (UK)
Further reading
- cookie on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- magic cookie on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- HTTP cookie on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Etymology 2
From cook +? -ie.
Noun
cookie (plural cookies)
- (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.
- 1954, Blackwood's Magazine (volumes 275-276, page 340)
Etymology 3
Corruption of cucoloris.
Noun
cookie (plural cookies)
- (slang) A cucoloris.
Catalan
Etymology
From English cookie.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA(key): /?ku.ki/
Noun
cookie m (plural cookies)
- (computing) cookie
References
Dutch
Etymology
From English cookie, in turn from Dutch koekje, of which it is a doublet.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?kuki/
- Hyphenation: coo?kie
Noun
cookie n (plural cookies, diminutive cookietje n)
- (computing) cookie
French
Etymology
Borrowed from English cookie.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ku.ki/
Noun
cookie m (plural cookies)
- (France) cookie (American-style biscuit)
- (computing) cookie
Polish
Etymology
Borrowed from English cookie.
Noun
cookie n (plural cookies)
- (Internet) cookie, a packet of information sent by a server to browser
Synonyms
- ciasteczko
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from English cookie.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /?ku.ki/
- Homophone: cuque
Noun
cookie m (plural cookies)
- (Internet) cookie (data sent from a website and stored in a user's web browser while the user is browsing that website)
- an American-style cookie (small, flat baked good)
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from English cookie.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?kuki/, [?ku.ki]
Noun
cookie m (plural cookies)
- (Internet) cookie, HTTP cookie
cookie From the web:
- what cookies
- what cookies are vegan
- what cookies are gluten free
- what cookies should i make
- what cookie am i
- what cookies does santa like
- what cookies are good for diabetics
- what cookies to make for christmas
biscuits
English
Noun
biscuits
- plural of biscuit
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bis.k?i/
Noun
biscuits m
- plural of biscuit
biscuits From the web:
- what biscuits can a diabetic eat
- what biscuits are vegan
- what biscuits are good for acid reflux
- what biscuits to use for monkey bread
- what biscuits are on sale at bojangles
- what biscuits go with tea
- what biscuits to use for biscuits and gravy
- what biscuits to use for donuts
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