cookie
Plural: cookies
Noun
- A small, flat, often sweet baked cake or biscuit.
- any of various small flat sweet cakes (`biscuit' is the British term)
- the cook on a ranch or at a camp
- a short line of text that a web site puts on your computer's hard drive when you access the web site
- 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.
- 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.
- Clipping of fortune cookie.
- A doughnut; a peel-out or skid mark in the shape of a circle.
- Affectionate name for a cook.
- A cucoloris.
Verb
- To send a cookie to (a user, computer, etc.).
Examples
- I feel sick, like I'm about to toss my cookies.
- I lost my cookies after that roller coaster ride.
- That rare word on the board was a tough cookie to crack for a bonus.
Origin / 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.
Scrabble Score: 12
cookie: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordcookie: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
cookie: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 13
cookie: valid Words With Friends Word