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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024cook•y (kŏŏk′ē),USA pronunciation n., pl. cook•ies. - cookie.
WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024cook•ie or cook•y /ˈkʊki/USA pronunciation n. [countable], pl. -ies. - Fooda small, flat, sweetened cake made from dough and baked on a pan:a plate of chocolate chip cookies.
- Slang TermsSlang.
- a person: He's a smart cookie;
he won't get caught by the cops. - Sex and GenderSometimes Offensive. an alluring woman.
Idioms- that's the way the cookie crumbles, (used after a description of an event to imply that things normally occur this way and nothing more can be done):"The train was late again.'' "Well, that's the way the cookie crumbles.''
- Idioms, toss or spill one's cookies, Slang. to vomit.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024cook•ie (kŏŏk′ē),USA pronunciation n. - Fooda small cake made from stiff, sweet dough rolled and sliced or dropped by spoonfuls on a large, flat pan (cookie sheet)and baked.
- [Informal.]dear;
sweetheart (a term of address, usually connoting affection). - Slang Terms
- a person:a smart cookie; a tough cookie.
- Sex and Genderan alluring young woman.
- Dialect Terms[South Atlantic U.S.](chiefly North Carolina). a doughnut.
- Scottish Termsa bun.
- toss or spill one's cookies, [Slang.]to vomit.
Also, cooky. - Dutch koekie, dialect, dialectal variant of koekje, equivalent. to koek cake + -je diminutive suffix
- 1695–1705,
cookie, + n. - Computinga 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.
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: cookie, cooky /ˈkʊkɪ/ n ( pl -ies)- US 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 - a Scot word for bun
- informal a person: smart cookie
- 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
- that's the way the cookie crumbles ⇒ informal matters are inevitably or unalterably so
Etymology: 18th Century: from Dutch koekje, diminutive of koek cake |