Cookie Definition
kyo͝okē
cookies
noun
cookies
A small, sweet cake, variously shaped, filled, etc., but usually flat and either crisp or chewy.
Webster's New World
A person, usually of a specified kind.
A lawyer who was a tough cookie.
American Heritage
A bun.
Webster's New World
A person, esp. one qualified as tough, smart, shrewd, etc.
Webster's New World
A small file placed automatically by a website or an online service onto the hard disk of someone accessing that website or service, for the purpose of storing information about and later recognizing that user.
Webster's New World
idiom
toss one's cookies
- to vomit; throw up
Webster's New World
Other Word Forms of Cookie
Noun
Singular:
cookiePlural:
cookiesIdioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Cookie
Origin of Cookie
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From Dutch koekje (possibly through dialectal variation koekie), diminutive of koek (“cake”), from Proto-Germanic *kōkô (compare Low German Kook, German Kuchen). More at cake.
From Wiktionary
Dutch koekje diminutive of koek cake from Middle Dutch koeke akin to German Kuchen Old Norse kaka cake
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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