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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)

1. (Canada, US) A small, flat, baked good which is either crisp or soft but firm.

   Synonyms: biscuit, (UK, Australia) bickie

2. (Britain, Commonwealth of Nations) 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 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.

8. (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)

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.

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)

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.

Etymology 3

Corruption of cucoloris.

Noun

cookie (plural cookies)

1. (slang) A cucoloris.

Catalan

Etymology

From English cookie.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?ku.ki/

Noun

cookie m (plural cookies)

1. (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)

1. (computing) cookie

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English cookie.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ku.ki/

Noun

cookie m (plural cookies)

1. (France) cookie (American-style biscuit)
2. (computing) cookie

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from English cookie.

Noun

cookie n (plural cookies)

1. (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)

1. (Internet) cookie (data sent from a website and stored in a user's web browser while the user is browsing that website)
2. 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)

1. (Internet) cookie, HTTP cookie

English

Etymology

From crack (verb). Hard “bread/biscuit” sense first attested in 1739, though “hard wafer” sense attested since 1440.

Computing senses of cracker, crack, and cracking were promoted in the 1980s as an alternative to hacker, by programmers concerned about negative public associations of hack, hacking (“creative computer coding”). See Citations:cracker.

Various theories exist regarding the term's application to poor white Southerners. One theory holds that it originated with disadvantaged corn and wheat farmers (corncrackers), who cracked their crops rather than taking them to the mill. Another theory asserts that it was applied due to Georgia and Florida settlers (Florida crackers) who cracked loud whips to drive herds of cattle, or, alternatively, from the whip cracking of plantation slave drivers. Yet another theory maintains that the term cracker was in use in Elizabethan times to describe braggarts (see crack (“to boast”)); a letter from 1766 supports this theory.

Pronunciation

• enPR: kr?k'?(r), IPA^(key): /?k?æk?(?)/
• Rhymes: -æk?(?)

Noun

cracker (plural crackers)

1. A dry, thin, crispy baked bread (usually salty or savoury, but sometimes sweet, as in the case of graham crackers and animal crackers).

   Synonym: (UK, Australia) biscuit

   Coordinate terms: biscuit, brittle, cookie, chip, crisp, hardtack, snap, toast, wafer

2. A short piece of twisted string tied to the end of a whip that creates the distinctive sound when the whip is thrown or cracked.

   Synonyms: popper, snapper

3. A firecracker.
4. A person or thing that cracks, or that cracks a thing (e.g. whip cracker; nutcracker).
   1. The final section of certain whips, which is made of a short, thin piece of unravelled rope and produces a cracking sound.

      Synonym: popper

5. A Christmas cracker.
6. Refinery equipment used to pyrolyse organic feedstocks. If catalyst is used to aid pyrolysis it is informally called a cat-cracker
7. (slang, chiefly Britain) A fine thing or person (crackerjack).
8. An ambitious or hard-working person (i.e. someone who arises at the 'crack' of dawn).
9. (computing) One who cracks (i.e. overcomes) computer software or security restrictions.

   Synonyms: black-hat hacker, black hat, hacker

   Coordinate term: script kiddie

   • 1984, Richard Sedric Fox Eells, Peter Raymond Nehemkis, Corporate Intelligence and Espionage: A Blueprint for Executive Decision Making, Macmillan, p 137:

     It stated to one of the company's operators, “The Phantom, the system cracker, strikes again . . . Soon I will zero (expletive deleted) your desks and your backups on System A. I have already cracked your System B.
10. (obsolete) A noisy boaster; a swaggering fellow.
11. (US, derogatory, ethnic slur, offensive) An impoverished white person from the southeastern United States, originally associated with Georgia and parts of Florida; (by extension) any white person.

    Synonyms: corn-cracker, honky, peckerwood, redneck, trailer nigger, trailer trash, white trash, whitey, wonderbread; see also Thesaurus:white person

12. (Florida, slang, derogatory) A police officer.
13. A northern pintail, species of dabbling duck.
14. (obsolete) A pair of fluted rolls for grinding caoutchouc.

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Derived terms

Related terms

• crack

Translations

Further reading

• cracker on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• cracker (term) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

Anagrams

• recrack

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?kr?kr?]
• Hyphenation: cra?c?ker

Noun

cracker m inan

1. Alternative form of krekr

Declension

Noun

cracker m anim (feminine crackerka)

1. drug user

Declension