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cookie
[ kook-ee ]
noun
, plural cook·ies
- a small, usually round and flat cake, the size of an individual portion, made from stiff, sweetened dough, and baked.
- Informal. dear; sweetheart (a term of address, usually connoting affection).
- Slang.
- a person, usually of a specified character or type:
a smart cookie;
a tough cookie.
- an alluring young woman.
- Also called http cookie;. Digital Technology. a file or segment of data that identifies a unique user over time and across interactions with a website, sent by the web server through a browser, stored on a user’s hard drive, and sent back to the server each time the browser requests a web page:
Your browser will run more efficiently after you clear the cache and cookies.
- South Atlantic States (chiefly North Carolina). a doughnut.
- Scot. a bun.
verb (used with object)
cookiedcookieing or cookying
- Digital Technology. to assign a cookie or cookies to (a website user):
I'm not really comfortable being cookied all the time.
cookie
/ ˈkʊkɪ /
noun
- a small flat dry sweet or plain cake of many varieties, baked from a dough Also called (in Britain and certain other countries)biscuit
- a Scot word for bun
- informal.a person
smart cookie
- computing a piece of data downloaded to a computer by a website, containing details of the preferences of that computer's user which identify the user when revisiting that website
- that's the way the cookie crumbles informal.matters are inevitably or unalterably so
cookie
/ kk′ē /
- A collection of information, usually including a username and the current date and time, stored on the local computer of a person using the World Wide Web, used chiefly by websites to identify users who have previously registered or visited the site. Cookies are used to relate one computer transaction to a later one.
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of cookie1
C18: from Dutch koekje, diminutive of koek cake
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Idioms and Phrases
Idioms
- toss / spill one's cookies, Slang. to vomit.
More idioms and phrases containing cookie
see hand in the till (cookie jar) ; that's how the ball bounces (cookie crumbles) ; toss one's cookies .Advertisement
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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