cookie Definition
cookie (ko̵ok′ē)
noun
- ☆ a small, sweet cake, variously shaped, filled, etc., but usually flat and either crisp or chewy
- Scot. a bun
- ☆ Slang
- a person, esp. one qualified as tough, smart, shrewd, etc.
- an attractive young woman
- ☆ Comput. a small file placed automatically on a user's hard disk, as by a website or online service, for the purpose of storing information about and recognizing the user
Etymology: prob. Du koekje, dim. of koek, a cake; akin to cake
cookie Idioms
toss one's cookies
☆Slang to vomit; throw up
cookie Synonyms
cookie
n.
Common varieties of cookies include: cream, butter, lemon, Boston, seed, icebox, oatmeal, lace, vanilla, chocolate, sugar, peanut butter, almond, eggless, ginger, molasses, gingersnap, fig bar, raisin bar, chocolate chip, jumble, Scotch shortbread, Scotch cake, macaroon, Mary Ann, tart, fruit bar, brownie, drop, bar, Marguerite, petit beurre (French), madeleine, pinwheel, wafer;
Cookie Hacker Definition
Nevertheless, there is controversy surrounding cookies. For example, cookies can be accessed, read, and used by malicious Websites unintentionally visited by innocent users. This cookie information can be used to gather intelligence on the user and later used against the user, or the cookie information can be used to access the original Website.
cookie Usage Examples
Converse of object
- disable: Should you wish you can disable cookies through the browser settings.
- accept: You do not need to allow your browser to accept cookies in order to use our service.
- delete: You can also delete cookies by adjusting your browser settings.
- refuse: You can set your browser to refuse cookies from any website you visit.
- reject: You may configure your Internet browser to reject cookies.
- bake: As we sat in the grass eating freshly baked Italian cookies, Jeff explained his philosophy as a Tortoise driver.
Adjective modifier
- persistent: A persistent cookie is a small text file stored on your hard drive for an extended period of time.
- homemade: Enjoy a spacious family room with breakfast and homemade cookies on arrival, starting from just £ 349.00.
- chocolate: I do remember the police pulling up to see me sitting in my car eating chocolate cookies in the wee small hours.
- temporary: This will delete temporary Internet cookies from any sites that you may have visited.
- tough: Life's a tough cookie really, especially on the hill.
Modifies a noun
- cutter: Whip up some American cookies in all sorts of shapes with our cookie cutters from our Country Kitchen.
- jar: The number the last person calls out is the total number of cookies in the cookie jar.
- monster: Need some real world help with ' taming the cookie monster ' ?
Noun used with modifier
- per-session: Page down to the Cookies section and select to " enable cookies stored on computer " and " enable per-session cookies.
- Oreo: In fact, almost every nation is represented from American Oreo cookies to Antonio Carluccio's Italian range.
- fortune: Link: Fortune cookies Horoscope Are you a rat, a snake or a rabbit?
- session: For the session cookie, once you close the browser, the cookie simply terminates.
- browser: Computer Tracking and ' Cookies ' NSDesign makes use of internet browser cookies, which we use to identify you for login purposes.
- chip: Lunch 4oz lean boiled chicken breast, 1 cup steamed spinach, 1 cup of herbal tea, 1 chocolate chip cookie.
Browse dictionary entries near cookie
- ‹ cookhouse
- ‹ cookery
- ‹ cooker
- ‹ cookbook
- ‹ cook up
- ‹ Cook Strait
- ‹ Cook's tour
- ‹ cook-off
- ‹ Cook Islands
- ‹ Cook Inlet
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