| cookie or cooky (ˈkʊkɪ) | |
| —n , pl -ies | |
| 1. | (US), (Canadian) Also called (in Britain and certain other countries): biscuit a small flat dry sweet or plain cake of many varieties, baked from a dough |
| 2. | a Scot word for bun |
| 3. | informal a person: smart cookie |
| 4. | 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 |
| 5. | informal that's the way the cookie crumbles matters are inevitably or unalterably so |
| [C18: from Dutch koekje, diminutive of koek cake] | |
| cooky or cooky | |
| —n | |
| [C18: from Dutch koekje, diminutive of koek cake] | |