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cookie

/ˈkʊki/ noun

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In Latin: crustulum, copta Wiktionary

noun Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA). Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about cookie at Wordnik → Where our words come from →

  1. A small, flat, baked good which is either crisp or soft but firm.
  2. A sweet baked good (as in the previous sense) usually having chocolate chips, fruit, nuts, etc. baked into it.
  3. An HTTP cookie.

verb

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

noun

  1. Affectionate name for a cook.

noun

  1. A cucoloris.

Origin

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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