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Definition of cookie in English: cookienounPlural cookies ˈkʊkiˈkʊki 1North American A sweet biscuit. Example sentencesExamples - When patients couldn't pay, they sometimes brought him a homemade cake or cookies or fresh fruit.
- Keep in mind, too, that we don't generally eat an entire meal of walnuts but use them as a garnish or as flavor bursts in cookies and cakes.
- Whole leaves ground to a fine spice-like powder can be used as seasoning or in backing recipes for breads, cookies, cakes, and muffins.
- The preparations will include varieties of rice items, sweets, fried items, cookies, cakes and juices.
- For her, the most special family tradition is Christmas baking, which involves preparing delicious cakes and cookies for the whole family.
- Only, the characters here were real and not necessarily out on a picnic with sweet lemonade, ham sandwiches, home-made cookies and cakes.
- People set aside time to make cookies, cakes, and decorations.
- The new recipe produced some very flat cookies.
- Enjoy the famous bake sale with homemade cakes, pies and cookies.
- Why aren't we making the good stuff, like cookies or cake?
- Then wrap up those cookies and cakes for neighbors, coworkers and friends - they make a great low-cost, thoughtful gift.
- She was an excellent cook, and she actually loved doing it, which was why there were always cakes and cookies to look forward to after school.
- I know I shouldn't eat cakes and cookies, but are potatoes and corn OK?
- Cloves and allspice are a festive combination, famous for flavoring holiday pies, cakes and cookies.
- The other squash we know and like is pumpkin, a winter squash used almost exclusively for pie in our country and to a lesser extent for baked goods such as breads, cakes and cookies.
- I have experienced occasional heartburn after I have eaten sugary snacks like cake, pie and cookies.
- For example, it may simply add bulk to stews and stuffings, or nice moist textures to cakes, cookies and loaves.
- Instead of just cookies and cakes, there will be some sandwiches.
- But we don't have to give up the delicious combination of creamy icing and crisp chocolate cookie.
- This may involve candy, some cake and/or cookies, alcohol if your workplace allows it, etc.
2informal A person of a specified kind. Example sentencesExamples - The older women were tough cookies let me tell you.
- Coles is a tough cookie, and that impresses his teammates the most.
- Besides, I'm a tough little cookie - you said so yourself.
- You're one tough cookie when it comes to forgiveness.
- Jenn's one tough cookie but she has a heart of gold.
- You don't know what it's like until you're there, and I'm a pretty tough cookie myself.
- If they say I'm a tough cookie, it's because they're sloppy.
- They were tough cookies, some of them, really tough cookies but they were also terribly warm-hearted.
- But he is a very tough cookie indeed, having been brought up in the military atmosphere of West Point.
- It is a waiting game and a praying game but he is a tough cookie.
- Dylan's a tough cookie, and you can read all about it on his very engaging and frequently updated website.
- Butler, a tough cookie if ever there was one, refused to crumble after he was diagnosed with lung cancer on July 4.
- Vanessa Craft meets one tough cookie who's definitely in control.
- After all, I am used to seeing her as a pretty tough cookie.
- She's a smart cookie, a ‘tough cookie,’ as one character mockingly calls her.
- Mr Gove is a smart cookie, and he is trying to suggest one.
- But Andy is a tough cookie, and he is sticking it out.
- Because - listen to this and believe it - you're a smart cookie.
- Of course, I had always known she was a tough cookie.
- Once you've driven your flag into the North Pole, proven to yourself that you're actually a pretty tough cookie, what's the point in doing it again?
Synonyms person, human being, human, being, mortal, soul, creature, thing 4Computing A packet of data sent by an Internet server to a browser, which is returned by the browser each time it subsequently accesses the same server, used to identify the user or track their access to the server. Example sentencesExamples - He had failed to grasp the fact that the browser itself stores the cookies on the user's hard drive.
- The use of advertising cookies sent by third-party servers is standard in the Internet industry.
- Some servers use cookies to track users from site to site, and some use them to uncover the identity of the user.
- The main purpose of a cookie is to identify users and possibly prepare customized Web pages for them.
- Companies using cookies and other internet tracking devices will have to provide information to users, giving them the chance to opt out.
Phrases that's the way the cookie crumbles informal That's the way the situation is, and it must be accepted, however undesirable. ‘It's so unfair.’ ‘That's the way the cookie crumbles.’ Example sentencesExamples - Unrealistic, but that's the way the cookie crumbles for me.
- Oh well, I guess that's the way the cookie crumbles…
- But that's the way the cookie crumbles and more than a few fans will feel Montgomery's dropping is long overdue.
- Because that's the way the cookie crumbles, boy.
- I was truly mourning the loss of a good party, but…that's the way the cookie crumbles.
- It's crass and I apologize, but that's the way the cookie crumbles.
- But that's the way the cookie crumbles as they say and I look back in pensive mood at those happier days when we were proud to have her as our MP.
- I feel kinda bad for them too, but, hey, that's the way the cookie crumbles.
- Sorry, that's the way the cookie crumbles.
- He felt angry at himself for letting that happen, but as the saying goes; that's the way the cookie crumbles.
Origin Early 18th century: from Dutch koekje 'little cake', diminutive of koek. Rhymes bookie, hookey, hooky, nooky, rookie Definition of cookie in US English: cookienounˈko͝okēˈkʊki 1North American A small sweet cake, typically round, flat, and crisp. Example sentencesExamples - Why aren't we making the good stuff, like cookies or cake?
- Cloves and allspice are a festive combination, famous for flavoring holiday pies, cakes and cookies.
- The other squash we know and like is pumpkin, a winter squash used almost exclusively for pie in our country and to a lesser extent for baked goods such as breads, cakes and cookies.
- The new recipe produced some very flat cookies.
- Only, the characters here were real and not necessarily out on a picnic with sweet lemonade, ham sandwiches, home-made cookies and cakes.
- People set aside time to make cookies, cakes, and decorations.
- For her, the most special family tradition is Christmas baking, which involves preparing delicious cakes and cookies for the whole family.
- She was an excellent cook, and she actually loved doing it, which was why there were always cakes and cookies to look forward to after school.
- I have experienced occasional heartburn after I have eaten sugary snacks like cake, pie and cookies.
- Instead of just cookies and cakes, there will be some sandwiches.
- Whole leaves ground to a fine spice-like powder can be used as seasoning or in backing recipes for breads, cookies, cakes, and muffins.
- But we don't have to give up the delicious combination of creamy icing and crisp chocolate cookie.
- For example, it may simply add bulk to stews and stuffings, or nice moist textures to cakes, cookies and loaves.
- The preparations will include varieties of rice items, sweets, fried items, cookies, cakes and juices.
- Then wrap up those cookies and cakes for neighbors, coworkers and friends - they make a great low-cost, thoughtful gift.
- Keep in mind, too, that we don't generally eat an entire meal of walnuts but use them as a garnish or as flavor bursts in cookies and cakes.
- When patients couldn't pay, they sometimes brought him a homemade cake or cookies or fresh fruit.
- This may involve candy, some cake and/or cookies, alcohol if your workplace allows it, etc.
- I know I shouldn't eat cakes and cookies, but are potatoes and corn OK?
- Enjoy the famous bake sale with homemade cakes, pies and cookies.
2informal A person of a specified kind. a tough cookie with one eye on her bank account Example sentencesExamples - But Andy is a tough cookie, and he is sticking it out.
- Butler, a tough cookie if ever there was one, refused to crumble after he was diagnosed with lung cancer on July 4.
- You don't know what it's like until you're there, and I'm a pretty tough cookie myself.
- Jenn's one tough cookie but she has a heart of gold.
- The older women were tough cookies let me tell you.
- Mr Gove is a smart cookie, and he is trying to suggest one.
- Besides, I'm a tough little cookie - you said so yourself.
- Vanessa Craft meets one tough cookie who's definitely in control.
- Coles is a tough cookie, and that impresses his teammates the most.
- Of course, I had always known she was a tough cookie.
- She's a smart cookie, a ‘tough cookie,’ as one character mockingly calls her.
- Because - listen to this and believe it - you're a smart cookie.
- If they say I'm a tough cookie, it's because they're sloppy.
- After all, I am used to seeing her as a pretty tough cookie.
- Dylan's a tough cookie, and you can read all about it on his very engaging and frequently updated website.
- They were tough cookies, some of them, really tough cookies but they were also terribly warm-hearted.
- But he is a very tough cookie indeed, having been brought up in the military atmosphere of West Point.
- It is a waiting game and a praying game but he is a tough cookie.
- Once you've driven your flag into the North Pole, proven to yourself that you're actually a pretty tough cookie, what's the point in doing it again?
- You're one tough cookie when it comes to forgiveness.
Synonyms person, human being, human, being, mortal, soul, creature, thing 3Computing A packet of data sent by an Internet server to a browser, which is returned by the browser each time it subsequently accesses the same server, used to identify the user or track their access to the server. Example sentencesExamples - Some servers use cookies to track users from site to site, and some use them to uncover the identity of the user.
- He had failed to grasp the fact that the browser itself stores the cookies on the user's hard drive.
- The main purpose of a cookie is to identify users and possibly prepare customized Web pages for them.
- Companies using cookies and other internet tracking devices will have to provide information to users, giving them the chance to opt out.
- The use of advertising cookies sent by third-party servers is standard in the Internet industry.
Phrases that's the way the cookie crumbles informal That's how things turn out (often used of an undesirable but unalterable situation). Example sentencesExamples - Because that's the way the cookie crumbles, boy.
- Sorry, that's the way the cookie crumbles.
- But that's the way the cookie crumbles as they say and I look back in pensive mood at those happier days when we were proud to have her as our MP.
- Unrealistic, but that's the way the cookie crumbles for me.
- It's crass and I apologize, but that's the way the cookie crumbles.
- But that's the way the cookie crumbles and more than a few fans will feel Montgomery's dropping is long overdue.
- I was truly mourning the loss of a good party, but…that's the way the cookie crumbles.
- I feel kinda bad for them too, but, hey, that's the way the cookie crumbles.
- He felt angry at himself for letting that happen, but as the saying goes; that's the way the cookie crumbles.
- Oh well, I guess that's the way the cookie crumbles…
Origin Early 18th century: from Dutch koekje ‘little cake’, diminutive of koek. |