cookie
English edit
Pronunciation edit
- enPR: ko͝ok'i, IPA(key): /ˈkʊki/
- (sometimes in Northern England) enPR: ko͞ok'i, IPA(key): /ˈkuːki/
Audio (AU) (file) - Homophone: kooky (sometimes UK)
- Rhymes: -ʊki
Etymology 1 edit
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.
Alternative forms edit
Noun edit
cookie (plural cookies)
- (Canada, US) A small, flat, baked good which is either crisp or soft but firm.
- (UK, Commonwealth) A sweet baked good (as in the previous sense) usually having chocolate chips, fruit, nuts, etc. baked into it.
- (Scotland) A bun.
- (computing, Internet) An HTTP cookie.
- (computing) A magic cookie.
- (slang, dated) An attractive young woman.
- (slang, vulgar) 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.”
- 2014, Nicki Minaj, "Anaconda" (Clean Version), The Pinkprint:
- Cookie put his butt to sleep, now he callin' me Nyquil.
- (slang, drugs) A piece of crack cocaine, larger than a rock, and often in the shape of a cookie.
- (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.
- I feel sick, like I'm about to toss my cookies.
- (informal) Clipping of fortune cookie.
- (Northern US) A doughnut; a peel-out or skid mark in the shape of a circle.
Usage notes edit
- In North America, a biscuit is a small, soft baked bread similar to a scone but not sweet. In some cases, it can be hard (see dog biscuit). 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, typically 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 in this image (saltine crackers) are called crackers, while thin, crispy, sweet baked goods like in this image (Nilla Wafers) and this image (wafer sticks) 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.
Hyponyms edit
Derived terms edit
- ally cookie
- Catherine wheel cookie
- chookie
- cookie butter
- cookie-cutter
- cookie cutter
- cookie cutterish
- cookie-cutterish
- cookie dough
- cookie exchange
- cookie grabber
- cookie hole
- cookieish
- cookie jar
- cookie-jar accounting
- cookie-jar reserve
- cookielike
- cookie-pop
- cookie pop
- cookie press
- cookie pusher
- cookie sandwich
- cookie sheet
- cookie-shine
- cookie stealer
- cookie swap
- cookie wall
- credit cookie
- eat cookie
- Empire cookie
- fingers in the cookie jar
- good cookie
- Imperial cookie
- Linzer cookie
- lose one's cookies
- ookie cookie
- Oreo cookie
- sandwich cookie
- spritz cookie
- supercookie
- that's how the cookie crumbles
- that's the way the cookie crumbles
- Toll House cookie
- tollhouse cookie
- toss one's cookies
- what do you want, a cookie
- you want a cookie
Descendants edit
- → Arabic: كُوكِي (kuki)
- → Cantonese: 曲奇 (kuk1 kei4)
- → Mandarin: 曲奇 (qūqí)
- → Catalan: cookie
- → Cebuano: kokis
- → French: cookie
- → Georgian: ქუქი (kuki)
- → German: Cookie
- → Gujarati: કૂકી (kūkī)
- → Hindi: कुकी (kukī)
- → Italian: cookie
- → Japanese: クッキー (kukkī)
- → Kannada: ಕುಕಿ (kuki)
- → Korean: 쿠키 (kuki)
- → Malay: kuki
- → Polish: cookie
- → Portuguese: cookie
- → Russian: куки (kuki)
- → Spanish: cookie
- → Swedish: cookie
- → Tagalog: kuki
- → Telugu: కుకీ (kukī)
- → Thai: คุกกี้ (kúk-gîi)
Translations edit
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Verb edit
cookie (third-person singular simple present cookies, present participle cookieing or cookying, simple past and past participle cookied)
- (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.
See also edit
- cracker (UK)
Further reading edit
- cookie on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- magic cookie on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- HTTP cookie on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
cookie (plural cookies)
- (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."
Etymology 3 edit
Corruption of cucoloris.
Noun edit
cookie (plural cookies)
Catalan edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
cookie m (plural cookies)
References edit
Dutch edit
Etymology edit
From English cookie, in turn from Dutch koekje, of which it is a doublet.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
cookie n (plural cookies, diminutive cookietje n)
French edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
cookie m (plural cookies)
Polish edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from English cookie.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
cookie n (indeclinable)
- (Internet) cookie, HTTP cookie (packet of information sent by a server to browser)
- Synonym: ciasteczko
Further reading edit
- cookie in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from English cookie.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
cookie (Brazil) m or (Portugal) f (plural cookies)
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from English cookie.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
cookie m (plural cookies)
Usage notes edit
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.