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cookie

Sometimes Ǵǰ·

[kook-ee]

  1. a small, usually round and flat cake, the size of an individual portion, made from stiff, sweetened dough, and baked.

  2. Informal.dear; sweetheart (a term of address, usually connoting affection).

  3. Slang.

    1. a person, usually of a specified character or type.

      a smart cookie;

      a tough cookie.

    2. an alluring young woman.

  4. Also called browser cookie.Also called http cookie;.Digital Technology.a file or segment of data that identifies a unique user over time and across interactions with a website, sent by the web server through a browser, stored on a user’s hard drive, and sent back to the server each time the browser requests a web page.

    Your browser will run more efficiently after you clear the cache and cookies.

  5. South Atlantic States (chiefly North Carolina).a doughnut.

  6. Scot.a bun.



  1. Digital Technology.to assign a cookie or cookies to (a website user).

    I'm not really comfortable being cookied all the time.

cookie

/ ˈʊɪ /

  1. Also called (in Britain and certain other countries): biscuit.a small flat dry sweet or plain cake of many varieties, baked from a dough

  2. a Scot word for bun

  3. informala person

    smart cookie

  4. computing a piece of data downloaded to a computer by a website, containing details of the preferences of that computer's user which identify the user when revisiting that website

  5. informalmatters are inevitably or unalterably so

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cookie

  1. A collection of information, usually including a username and the current date and time, stored on the local computer of a person using the World Wide Web, used chiefly by websites to identify users who have previously registered or visited the site. Cookies are used to relate one computer transaction to a later one.

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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of cookie1

First recorded in 1750–55; from Dutch koekie, dialectal variant of koekje, equivalent to koek “biscuit, cake” + -je diminutive suffix; cake
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of cookie1

C18: from Dutch koekje, diminutive of koek cake
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Idioms and Phrases

Idioms
  1. toss / spill one's cookies, to vomit.

see hand in the till (cookie jar); that's how the ball bounces (cookie crumbles); toss one's cookies.
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Example Sentences

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“What is a cookie,” she quipped, “if not a sweet cracker?”

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She invites Hai in, urging him to “Go on, sit. You look like a dunked cookie.”

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Karen Grammer liked to dunk Oreos in ice-cold Coca-Cola until the cream filling hardened and the cookie softened.

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Dried cherries are always welcome in punchy, acidic salads and also make for an excellent addition to any cookie or baked good.

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Yeh categorizes sweet salads with affection and a wink: cookie salads, Jell-O salads, candy bar salads, fluffs.

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Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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