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cook⋅y

  [kook-ee]
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–noun, plural cook⋅ies.
cookie.
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cook⋅ie

  [kook-ee]
–noun
1. a small cake made from stiff, sweet dough rolled and sliced or dropped by spoonfuls on a large, flat pan (cookie sheet) and baked.
2. Informal. dear; sweetheart (a term of address, usually connoting affection).
3. Slang.
a. a person: a smart cookie; a tough cookie.
b. an alluring young woman.
4. Computers. a message, or segment of data, containing information about a user, sent by a Web server to a browser and sent back to the server each time the browser requests a Web page.
5. South Atlantic States (chiefly North Carolina). a doughnut.
6. Scot. a bun.
—Idiom
7. toss or spill one's cookies, Slang. to vomit.
Also, cooky.

Origin:
1695–1705, < D koekie, dial. var. of koekje, equiv. to koek cake + -je dim. suffix
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cook·ie also cook·y   (kŏŏk'ē)   
n.   pl. cook·ies

  1. A small, usually flat and crisp cake made from sweetened dough.

  2. Slang A person, usually of a specified kind: a lawyer who was a tough cookie.

  3. Computer Science 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.


[Dutch koekje, diminutive of koek, cake, from Middle Dutch koeke.]
cook·y   (kŏŏk'ē)   
n.  Variant of cookie.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Word Origin & History

cookie 
1703, Amer.Eng., from Du. koekje "little cake," dim. of koek "cake," from M.Du. koke (see cake). Slang application to persons attested since 1920. Phrase that's the way the cookie crumbles "that's the way things happen" is from 1957.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Science Dictionary
cookie   (kk'ē)  Pronunciation Key 
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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Computing Dictionary

cooky
cookie

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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