cookie

[ kook-ee ]
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noun,plural cook·ies
  1. a small, usually round and flat cake, the size of an individual portion, made from stiff, sweetened dough, and baked.

  2. Informal. dear; sweetheart (a term of address, usually connoting affection).

  1. Slang.

    • a person, usually of a specified character or type: a smart cookie; a tough cookie.

    • an alluring young woman.

  2. Also called http cookie; brows·er cook·ie [brou-zer kook-ee] /ˈbraʊ zər ˌkʊk i/ .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.

  3. South Atlantic States (chiefly North Carolina). a doughnut.

  4. Scot. a bun.

verb (used with object),cook·ied,cook·ie·ing or cook·y·ing.
  1. Digital Technology. to assign a cookie or cookies to (a website user): I'm not really comfortable being cookied all the time.

Idioms about cookie

  1. toss / spill one's cookies, Slang. to vomit.

Origin of cookie

1
First recorded in 1750–55; from Dutch koekie, dialectal variant of koekje, equivalent to koek “biscuit, cake” + -je diminutive suffix; see origin at cake
  • Sometimes cook·y .

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British Dictionary definitions for cookie

cookie

cooky

/ (ˈkʊkɪ) /


nounplural -ies
  1. US and Canadian a small flat dry sweet or plain cake of many varieties, baked from a dough: Also called (in Britain and certain other countries): biscuit

  2. a Scot word for bun

  1. informal a person: smart cookie

  2. 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

  3. that's the way the cookie crumbles informal matters are inevitably or unalterably so

Origin of cookie

1
C18: from Dutch koekje, diminutive of koek cake

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Scientific definitions for cookie

cookie

[ kukē ]


  1. 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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Other Idioms and Phrases with cookie

cookie

see hand in the till (cookie jar); that's how the ball bounces (cookie crumbles); toss one's cookies.

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