# cookie
## English
### Pronunciation

* enPR: ko͝ok'i, IPA: /ˈkʊki/
* (sometimes in Northern England) enPR: ko͞ok'i, IPA: /ˈkuːki/
* Audio (General Australian):(file)
* Homophone: kooky (sometimes UK)
* Rhymes: -ʊki

### Etymology 1

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.

#### Alternative forms

* cookey, cooky (uncommon)

#### Noun

cookie (plural cookies)
* (Canada, US, Philippines) A small, flat, baked good which is either crisp or soft but firm.
    Synonyms: biscuit, (UK, Australia) bickie
* (UK, Commonwealth) A sweet baked good (as in the previous sense) usually having chocolate chips, fruit, nuts, etc. baked into it.
* (Scotland) A bun.
* (computing, Internet, by ellipsis) An HTTP cookie.
* (computing, by ellipsis) A magic cookie.
* (slang, dated) An attractive young woman.
* (slang, vulgar) The vulva.
** 1968, Gershon Legman, quoting anonymous informant from New York, 1953, Rationale of the Dirty Joke‎, page 100:a little girl was eating a cookie and spitting. “Do you have hair on your cookie?” “Don't be silly. I'm only eleven.”
** 2009, T. R. Oulds, Story of Many Secret Night‎, Lulu.com, published 2010, →ISBN:Her legs hung over the edge and the large towel covered just enough of her lap to hide her 'cookie'.
** 2010, Lennie Ross, Blow me, Lulu.com, published 2010, →ISBN, page 47:If she wanted to compete in this dog-eat-pussy world, she had to keep up her personal grooming, even if it meant spreading her legs and letting some Vietnamese woman rip the hair off her cookie every other week.
** 2014, Nicki Minaj, "Anaconda" (Clean Version), The Pinkprint:
    Cookie put his butt to sleep, now he callin' me Nyquil.
* (slang, drugs) A piece of crack cocaine, larger than a rock, and often in the shape of a cookie.
* (informal, in the plural) 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.
* (informal) Clipping of fortune cookie.
* (Northern US) A doughnut; a peel-out or skid mark in the shape of a circle.

##### Usage notes

* In North America, a biscuit is a small, soft baked bread similar to a scone but not sweet. In some cases, it can be hard (see dog biscuit). In the United Kingdom, a biscuit is a small, crisp or firm, sweet baked good — the sort of thing which in North America is called a cookie. (Less frequently, British speakers refer to crackers as biscuits.) In North America, even small, layered baked sweets like Oreos are referred to as cookies, while in the UK, typically only those biscuits which have chocolate chips, nuts, fruit, or other things baked into them are also called cookies.
* Throughout the English-speaking world, thin, crispy, salty or savoury baked breads like in this image (saltine crackers) are called crackers, while thin, crispy, sweet baked goods like in this image (Nilla Wafers) and this image (wafer sticks) are wafers.
* Both the US and the UK distinguish crackers, wafers and cookies/biscuits from cakes: the former are generally hard or crisp and become soft when stale, while the latter is generally soft or moist and becomes hard when stale.

##### Hyponyms

* Christmas cookie
* fortune cookie
* icebox cookie
* mud cookie
* sand cookie
* sharp cookie
* smart cookie
* sugar cookie
* supercookie
* tough cookie
* first-party cookie
* persistent cookie
* session cookie
* third-party cookie

##### Derived terms

* ally cookie
* brookie
* Catherine wheel cookie
* 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 pop
* cookie-pop
* cookie press
* cookie pusher
* cookie sandwich
* cookie sheet
* cookie-shine
* cookie stealer
* cookie swap
* cookie wall
* credit cookie
* crookie
* eat cookie
* Empire cookie
* evercookie
* fingers in the cookie jar
* good cookie
* Imperial cookie
* Linzer cookie
* lose one's cookies
* oatmeal cookie
* ookie cookie
* Oreo cookie
* sandwich cookie
* sea cookie
* spritz cookie
* subcookie
* supercookie
* that's how the cookie crumbles
* that's the way the cookie crumbles
* tollhouse cookie
* Toll House cookie
* toss one's cookies
* tree cookie
* what do you want, a cookie
* wood cookie
* you want a cookie

##### Descendants

* → Arabic: كُوكِي (kuki)
* → Armenian: կուկի (kuki)
* → Cantonese: 曲奇 (kuk$^1$ kei$^4$)
** → Mandarin: 曲奇 (qūqí)
* → Catalan: cookie
* → Cebuano: kokis
* → Dutch: cookie
* → French: cookie
* → Georgian: ქუქი (kuki)
* → German: Cookie
* → Gujarati: કૂકી (kūkī)
* → Hawaiian: kuki
* → Hindi: कुकी (kukī)
* → Italian: cookie
* → Japanese: クッキー (kukkī)
* → Kannada: ಕುಕಿ (kuki)
* → Khmer: ខូគី (khoukii)
* → Korean: 쿠키 (kuki)
* → Malay: kuki
* → Polish: cookie
* → Portuguese: cookie
* → Russian: ку́ки (kúki)
* → Spanish: cookie
* → Swahili: kuki
* → Swedish: cookie
* → Tagalog: kuki
* → Telugu: కుకీ (kukī)
* → Thai: คุกกี้ (kúk-gîi)
* → Tigrinya: ኩኪ (kuki)
* → Ukrainian: ку́ки (kúky)
* → Yiddish: קוקי (kuki)
* → Yoruba: kúkì

##### See also

* (computing senses): breadcrumb (element that helps to track things digitally)

#### Verb

cookie (third-person singular simple present cookies, present participle cookieing or cookying, simple past and past participle cookied)
* (computing, transitive) To send a cookie to (a user, computer, etc.).
** 2000, Ralph Kimball, Richard Merz, The Data Webhouse Toolkit: Building the Web-Enabled Data Warehouse‎:We have already discussed the benefits — even the necessity — of cookieing visitors so that we can track their return visits to our Website.
** 2002, Jim Sterne, Web Metrics: Proven Methods for Measuring Web Site Success‎:At Oracle, they cookie you before and after you register.

#### See also

* cracker (UK)

#### Further reading

* cookie on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* magic cookie on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* HTTP cookie on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### Etymology 2

From cook +‎ -ie.

#### Noun

cookie (plural cookies)
* (dated, colloquial) Affectionate name for a cook.
** 1954, Blackwood's Magazine, volumes 275-276, page 340:More than a little apprehensive myself, I went out to the kitchen. Cookie, deep in a murder story, rocked peacefully beside the glowing range.
** 1988, Roald Dahl, Matilda:"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."

### Etymology 3

Corruption of cucoloris.

#### Noun

cookie (plural cookies)
* (slang) A cucoloris.

## Catalan
### Etymology

Borrowed from English cookie.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈku.ki]

### Noun

cookie m (plural cookies)
* (computing) cookie

### References

* ↑ "cookie" at ésAdir

## Dutch
### Etymology

From English cookie, in turn from Dutch koekje, of which it is a doublet.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkuki/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: coo‧kie

### Noun

cookie n (plural cookies, diminutive cookietje n)
* (computing) cookie

## French
### Etymology

Borrowed from English cookie.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ku.ki/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

cookie m (plural cookies)
* (France) cookie (American-style biscuit)
* (computing) cookie
    Hyponyms: témoin de navigation, témoin

## Polish
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English cookie.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈku.ki/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -uki
* Syllabification: coo‧kie

### Noun

cookie n (indeclinable)
* (Internet) cookie, HTTP cookie (packet of information sent by a server to browser)
    Synonym: ciasteczko

### Further reading

* cookie in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English cookie.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈku.ki/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈku.ki/
* Homophone: cuque (Brazil)

### Noun

cookie (Brazil) m or (Portugal) f (plural cookies)
* (Internet, computing) cookie, HTTP cookie
* (Brazil) cookie (American-style biscuit)

## Spanish
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English cookie.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkuki/ [ˈku.ki]
* Rhymes: -uki

### Noun

cookie m (plural cookies)
* (Internet) cookie, HTTP cookie

#### Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

### Further reading

* “cookie”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10