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cookie

Pronunciation: /ˈkʊki/

The English word “cookie” has 14 meanings listed here.

noun

  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. A bun.
  4. An HTTP cookie.
  5. A magic cookie.
  6. An attractive young woman.
  7. The vulva.
  8. The anus of a man.
  9. A piece of crack cocaine, larger than a rock, and often in the shape of a cookie.
  10. One's eaten food (e.g. lunch, etc.), especially one's stomach contents.
  11. A doughnut; a peel-out or skid mark in the shape of a circle.
  12. Affectionate name for a cook.
  13. A cucoloris.

verb

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

Etymology

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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