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Webster 1913 Edition
Cookie
Definition 2024
Cookie
Cookie
See also: cookie
Chinese
Alternative forms
Noun
Cookie
- (computing) HTTP cookie
Synonyms
cookie
cookie
See also: Cookie
English
Alternative forms
Noun
cookie (plural cookies)
- (Canada, US) A small, flat, baked good which is either crisp or soft but firm.
- (Britain) A sweet baked good (as in the previous sense) which (usually) has chocolate chips, fruit, nuts, etc. baked into it.
- (Scotland) A bun.
- (computing, Internet) An HTTP cookie, web cookie.
- (computing) A magic cookie.
- (dated, possibly offensive) A young, attractive woman.
- (slang, vulgar) The female genitalia.
- 2009, T. R. Oulds, Story of Many Secret Night, Lulu.com (2010), ISBN 9781409285816, unnumbered page:
- Her legs hung over the edge and the large towel covered just enough of her lap to hide her 'cookie'.
- 2010, Lennie Ross, Blow me, Lulu.com (2010), ISBN 9781257133819, page 47:
- If she wanted to compete in this dog-eat-pussy world, she had to keep up her personal grooming, even if it meant spreading her legs and letting some Vietnamese woman rip the hair off her cookie every other week.
- 2014, Nicki Minaj, "Anaconda" (Clean Version), The Pinkprint:
- Cookie put his butt to sleep, now he callin' me Nyquil.
- 2009, T. R. Oulds, Story of Many Secret Night, Lulu.com (2010), ISBN 9781409285816, unnumbered page:
Usage notes
- In North America, a biscuit is a small, soft baked bread similar to a scone but not sweet. In the United Kingdom, a biscuit is a small, crisp or firm, sweet baked good — the sort of thing which in North America is called a cookie. (Less frequently, British speakers refer to crackers as biscuits.) In North America, even small, layered baked sweets like Oreos are referred to as cookies, while in the UK, only those biscuits which have chocolate chips, nuts, fruit, or other things baked into them are also called cookies.
- Throughout the English-speaking world, thin, crispy, salty or savoury baked breads like these are called crackers, while thin, crispy, sweet baked goods like these and these are wafers.
- Both the US and the UK distinguish crackers, wafers and cookies/biscuits from cakes: the former are generally hard or crisp and become soft when stale, while the latter is generally soft or moist and becomes hard when stale.
Synonyms
Derived terms
Terms derived from cookie
Translations
small, flat baked good — See also translations at : biscuit
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sweet baked good (as in the previous sense) which has chocolate chips, fruit, nuts etc. baked into it
bun — see bun
HTTP cookie — see HTTP cookie
magic cookie — see magic cookie
Verb
cookie (third-person singular simple present cookies, present participle cookieing, simple past and past participle cookied)
- (computing, transitive) (of a user, computer, etc.) To send a cookie.
- 2000, Ralph Kimball, Richard Merz , The Data Webhouse Toolkit: Building the Web-Enabled Data Warehouse
- We have already discussed the benefits — even the necessity — of cookieing visitors so that we can track their return visits to our Website.
- 2002, Jim Sterne, Web Metrics: Proven Methods for Measuring Web Site Success
- At Oracle, they cookie you before and after you register.
- 2000, Ralph Kimball, Richard Merz , The Data Webhouse Toolkit: Building the Web-Enabled Data Warehouse
See also
- cracker (UK)
- Wikipedia article on cookies (baked goods)
- Wikipedia article on magic cookies
- Wikipedia article on HTTP cookies
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkuki/
Etymology
From English cookie, in turn from Dutch koekje.
Noun
cookie n (plural cookies, diminutive cookietje n)
French
Etymology
Borrowing from English cookie.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kuki/
Noun
cookie m (plural cookies)
Polish
Etymology
Borrowing from English cookie.
Noun
cookie n (plural cookies)
- cookie, a packet of information sent by a server to browser