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Chocolate-chip cookies.

Soft cookies which do not contain chips, fruit or nuts.

Layered chocolate cookies.

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Proto-West Germanic *-ukīn

Old Dutch -kīn

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.

cookie (plural cookies)

  1. (Canada, US, Philippines) A small, flat, baked good which is either crisp or soft but firm.
    Synonyms: biscuit, (UK, Australia) bickie
  2. (UK, Commonwealth) A sweet baked good (as in the previous sense) usually having chocolate chips, fruit, nuts, etc. baked into it.
  3. (Scotland) A bun.
  4. (computing, Internet, by ellipsis) An HTTP cookie.
  5. (computing, by ellipsis) A magic cookie.
  6. (slang, dated) An attractive young woman.
  7. (slang, vulgar, euphemistic) The vulva.
    • 1968, Gershon Legman, quoting anonymous informant from New York, 1953, Rationale of the Dirty Joke‎[1], page 100:
      a little girl was eating a cookie and spitting. “Do you have hair on your cookie?” “Don't be silly. I'm only eleven.”
    • 2009, T. R. Oulds, Story of Many Secret Night‎[2], Lulu.com, published 2010, →ISBN:
      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, published 2010, →ISBN, 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.
  8. (slang, vulgar, LGBTQ) The anus of a man.
  9. (slang, drugs) A piece of crack cocaine, larger than a rock, and often in the shape of a cookie.
    Hypernym: pie
  10. (informal, in the plural) One's eaten food (e.g. lunch, etc.), especially one's stomach contents.
    I lost my cookies after that roller coaster ride.
  11. (informal) Clipping of fortune cookie.
  12. (Northern US) A doughnut; a peel-out or skid mark in the shape of a circle.

small, flat baked good — see also biscuit

cookie (third-person singular simple present cookies, present participle cookieing, simple past and past participle cookied)

  1. (computing, transitive) To send a cookie to (a user, computer, etc.).
    • 2000, Ralph Kimball, Richard Merz, The Data Webhouse Toolkit: Building the Web-Enabled Data Warehouse‎[3]:
      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[4]:
      At Oracle, they cookie you before and after you register.

From cook + -ie.

cookie (plural cookies)

  1. (dated, colloquial) Affectionate name for a cook.
    • 1954, Blackwood's Magazine, volumes 275-276, page 340:
      More than a little apprehensive myself, I went out to the kitchen. Cookie, deep in a murder story, rocked peacefully beside the glowing range.
    • 1988, Roald Dahl, Matilda:
      "You must show cookie here how grateful you are for all the trouble she's taken."
      The boy didn't move.
      "Go on, get on with it," the Trunchbull said. "Cut a slice and taste it. We haven't got all day."

Corruption of cucoloris.

cookie (plural cookies)

  1. (slang) A cucoloris.

Borrowed from English cookie.

cookie m (plural cookies)

  1. (computing) cookie

  2. ^ "cookie" at ésAdir

From English cookie, in turn from Dutch koekje, of which it is a doublet.

cookie n (plural cookies, diminutive cookietje n)

  1. (computing) cookie

Borrowed from English cookie.

cookie m (plural cookies)

  1. (France) cookie (American-style biscuit)
  2. (computing) cookie
    Hyponyms: témoin de navigation, témoin

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Proto-West Germanic *-ukīn

Old Dutch -kīn

Polish cookie

Unadapted borrowing from English cookie.

cookie n (indeclinable)

  1. (Internet) cookie, HTTP cookie (packet of information sent by a server to browser)
    Synonym: ciasteczko

Unadapted borrowing from English cookie.

cookie (Brazil) m or (Portugal) f (plural cookies)

  1. (Internet, computing) cookie, HTTP cookie
  2. (Brazil) cookie (American-style biscuit)
    Hypernym: biscoito

Unadapted borrowing from English cookie.

cookie m or f same meaning (plural cookies) (less common in the masculine)

  1. (Internet) cookie, HTTP cookie

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.