cookie

A1
US /ˈkʊki/
noun verb name Freq #4131

Meanings

  1. 1
    noun

    The vulva.

    a little girl was eating a cookie and spitting. “Do you have hair on your cookie?” “Don't be silly. I'm only eleven.”

  2. 2
    noun

    One's eaten food (e.g. lunch, etc.), especially one's stomach contents.

    I lost my cookies after that roller coaster ride.

  3. 3
    verb

    To send a cookie to (a user, computer, etc.).

    We have already discussed the benefits — even the necessity — of cookieing visitors so that we can track their return visits to our Website.

  4. 4
    noun

    Affectionate name for a cook.

    More than a little apprehensive myself, I went out to the kitchen. Cookie, deep in a murder story, rocked peacefully beside the glowing range.

  5. 5
    name

    An endearing or condescending nickname.

    Anyway, I went into the house and before I could get passed the bedroom, he called me. I hated him for calling me. He would say, “Come here, Cookie,” and for some reason, I was stupid and scared and I listened to this man.

  6. 6
    noun

    a short line of text that a web site puts on your computer's hard drive when you access the web site

  7. 7
    noun

    any of various small flat sweet cakes (`biscuit' is the British term)

  8. 8
    noun

    the cook on a ranch or at a camp

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *kōkô Old Dutch *kuoko Middle Dutch coeke Dutch koek Proto-Germanic *-ukaz Proto-West Germanic *-uk Proto-Germanic *-īną Proto-West Germanic *-īn ? Proto-West Germanic *-ukīn Old Dutch -kīn Middle Dutch -kijn Dutch -tjen Dutch -je Dutch koekiebor. English cookie Borrowed from Dutch koekie, dialectal diminutive of koek (“cake”), from Proto-Germanic *kōkô (compare German Low German Kookje (“biscuit, cookie, cracker”), Low German Kook (“cake”), German Kuchen (“cake”)). More at cake. Not related to English cook. The computing senses derive from magic cookie.

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Thesaurus

Synonyms
7 noun · any of various small flat... biscuitcooky
8 noun · the cook on a ranch or at a... cooky
Word family
Derived forms brookiechookiecookie-cuttercookie-cutterishcookie-popcookie-shinecookieholiccookieishcookielesscookielikecrookieevercookie

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