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cookie

/ˈkʊki/

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sometimes/ˈkuːki/

cookie noun: a small, flat, baked good which is either crisp or soft but firm. Also the clipping of fortune cookie.

cookie: a small, flat, baked good which is either crisp or soft but firm
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Noun (1)

cookie (plural cookies)

  1. (Canada, Philippines, US) A small, flat, baked good which is either crisp or soft but firm.
    Synonyms:
    biscuit, bickie
  2. (Commonwealth, UK) A sweet baked good (as in the previous sense) usually having chocolate chips, fruit, nuts, etc. baked into it.
  3. (Scotland) A bun.
  4. (Internet, by ellipsis) An HTTP cookie.
  5. (by ellipsis) A magic cookie.
  6. (dated, slang) An attractive young woman.
  7. (euphemistic, slang, vulgar) 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.”1968, Gershon Legman, quoting anonymous informant from New York, 1953, Rationale of the Dirty Joke, page 100
    • Her legs hung over the edge and the large towel covered just enough of her lap to hide her 'cookie'.2009, T. R. Oulds, Story of Many Secret Night, Lulu.com, published 2010, →ISBN
  8. (slang, vulgar) The anus of a man.
  9. (slang) A piece of crack cocaine, larger than a rock, and often in the shape of a cookie.
  10. (in plural, informal) 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.
  11. (Northern-US) A doughnut; a peel-out or skid mark in the shape of a circle.

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) 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.2000, Ralph Kimball, Richard Merz, The Data Webhouse Toolkit: Building the Web-Enabled Data Warehouse
    • At Oracle, they cookie you before and after you register.2002, Jim Sterne, Web Metrics: Proven Methods for Measuring Web Site Success

Noun (2)

cookie (plural cookies)

  1. (colloquial, dated) 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.1954, Blackwood's Magazine, volumes 275-276, page 340
    • "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."1988, Roald Dahl, Matilda

Noun (3)

cookie (plural cookies)

  1. (slang) A cucoloris.

Proper noun capitalized: Cookie

Cookie

  1. 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.2003, Katherine 'Cookie' Jones, I Know A Way Out, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 21
    • Fry: Robot Devil? I get your hands? Zam!
      Robot Devil: Oh, what an appallingly ironic outcome.
      Bender: It's not ironic, it's just coincidental. Now fork over those lady-fingers, Cookie!2003, "The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings", season 4, episode 18 of Futurama [Robot Devil's roulette with names of robots stops at his own name, "Robot Devil". As a result, he has to give his own...

Also used as

cookie is also the clipping of fortune cookie.

cookie meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Urdu and Bengali

cookie in Hindi

small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
कुकी kukī, बिस्कुट biskuṭ

cookie in Marathi

कुकी

cookie in Urdu

small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
کُوکی kūkī, بِسْکِٹ biskiṭ, بِسْکُٹ biskuṭ

cookie in Bengali

small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
মিষ্ট রূটি miśṭo ruṭi, বিস্কুট biskuṭ
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cookie in Telugu
కుకీ kukī
cookie in Malayalam
ബിസ്കറ്റ് biskaṟṟŭ
cookie in Kannada
ಕುಕಿ kuki
cookie in Gujarati
કૂકી kūkī
cookie in Odia
କୁକି
cookie in Nepali
कुकी
cookie in Tagalog
kuki
cookie in Arabic
كُعَيْكَة kuʕayka, كُوكِي kūkī, بَسْكَوِيت baskawīt
cookie in Malay
kuih
cookie in Indonesian
biskuit, kukis
cookie in Thai
คุกกี้ kúk-gîi, ขนมกินเล่น, บิสกิต bís-gìt, ขนมปัง kà-nǒm-bpang
cookie in Vietnamese
bánh quy, bích quy, bánh bích quy
cookie in Myanmar
ဘီစကွတ် bhica.kwat, ဆိတ်နို့မုန့် hcitnui.mun.

Examples of cookie in a sentence

  • I saw you take that cookie from the cookie jar! You're busted!
  • What shape shall we use for the cookies? Stars, circles, or diamonds?
  • We made a batch of cookies to take to the party.

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Synonyms of cookie

Forms of cookie

Noun
pluralcookies
alternative form (dated)cookey
alternative form (dated)cooky
Verb
third-person singular presentcookies
present participlecookieing
past participlecookied
pastcookied

Plural of cookie: cookies

Origin of 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.

From cook + -ie.

Corruption of cucoloris.

Words formed from cookie

Phrases with cookie

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Words that rhyme with cookie

Questions about cookie

What does cookie mean?
Cookie means a small, flat, baked good which is either crisp or soft but firm.
What is cookie in Hindi?
Cookie in Hindi is कुकी (kukī), बिस्कुट (biskuṭ). See Cookie meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is cookie?
Cookie can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce cookie?
Cookie is pronounced /ˈkʊki/.
What is the plural of cookie?
The plural of cookie is cookies.

Words near cookie in the dictionary

  1. Cookham
  2. Cookhill
  3. cookhouse
  4. cookhouses
  5. Cookian
  6. cookie
  7. cookie butter
  8. cookie butters
  9. cookie cutter
  10. cookie cutterish
  11. cookie cutters

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: cookie (page history and authors); Cookie (page history and authors); cookie (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cookie (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cookie (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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