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.

Noun (1)
cookie (plural cookies)
- A small, flat, baked good which is either crisp or soft but firm.
- A sweet baked good (as in the previous sense) usually having chocolate chips, fruit, nuts, etc. baked into it.
- A bun.
- An HTTP cookie.
- A magic cookie.
- An attractive young woman.
- 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
- The anus of a man.
- A piece of crack cocaine, larger than a rock, and often in the shape of a cookie.
- 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.
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- A cucoloris.
Proper noun capitalized: Cookie
Cookie
- 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
More languagesFewer languages
- 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.
Synonyms of cookie
Forms of cookie
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | cookies |
| alternative form (dated) | cookey |
| alternative form (dated) | cooky |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | cookies |
| present participle | cookieing |
| past participle | cookied |
| past | cookied |
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
- ally cookie
- bar cookie
- brookie
- chookie
- cookie butter
- cookie-cutter
- cookie cutter
- cookie-cutterish
- cookie cutterish
- cookie dough
- cookie exchange
- cookie grabber
- cookie hole
- cookieholic
- cookieish
- cookie jar
- cookie-jar accounting
- cookie-jar reserve
- cookieless
- cookie licking
- cookielike
- cookie monster
- cookie pop
- cookie-pop
- cookie press
- cookie pusher
- cookie sandwich
- cookie sheet
- cookie-shine
- cookie stealer
- cookie swap
- cookie wall
- credit cookie
- crookie
- eat cookie
- fingers in the cookie jar
- fruckies
- good cookie
- lose one's cookies
- mud cookie
- ookie cookie
- sea cookie
- how the cookie crumbles
- sharp cookie
- smart cookie
- subcookie
- supercookie
- that's how the cookie crumbles
- that's the way the cookie crumbles
- toss one's cookies
- tough cookie
- tree cookie
- urinal cookie
- what do you want, a cookie
- wood cookie
- you want a cookie
Phrases with cookie
- ate cookie
- cookie jars
- cookie pops
- eats cookie
- HTTP cookie
- Oreo cookie
- sand cookie
- cookie holes
- cookie swaps
- cookie walls
- eaten cookie
- magic cookie
38 more phrasesFewer phrases
- sugar cookie
- cookie doughs
- cookie sheets
- eating cookie
- Empire cookie
- icebox cookie
- Linzer cookie
- spritz cookie
- cookie butters
- cookie cutters
- cookie presses
- cookie pushers
- fortune cookie
- oatmeal cookie
- session cookie
- campfire cookie
- cookie grabbers
- cookie stealers
- Imperial cookie
- sandwich cookie
- Christmas cookie
- cookie exchanges
- tollhouse cookie
- cookie sandwiches
- persistent cookie
- Toll House cookie
- first-party cookie
- gingerbread cookie
- third-party cookie
- hands in cookie jars
- Catherine wheel cookie
- hand in the cookie jar
- caught in the cookie jar
- caught with the cookie jar
- see how the cookie crumbles
- caught raiding the cookie jar
- catches someone with a hand in the cookie jar
- catching someone with a hand in the cookie jar
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
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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