cookie
//ˈkʊki//
Forms
- Plural
- cookies
- present (v1)
- cookie
- past (v2)
- cookied
- past participle (v3)
- cookied
- present participle
- cookieing
- 3rd person singular
- cookies
Definitions
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.
1.To send a cookie to (a user, computer, etc.).
- At Oracle, they cookie you before and after you register.
- We have already discussed the benefits, even the necessity, of cookieing visitors so that we can track their return visits to our Website.
Frequency
Overall
Uncommon· #2923
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Uncommon
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Related words
Word family
Etymology
Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *kōkô
Old Dutch *kuoko
Middle Dutch coeke
Dutch koek
Proto-Germanic *-ukaz
Proto-West Germanic *-uk
Proto-Germanic *-īną
Proto-West Germanic *-īn
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Proto-West Germanic *-ukīn
Old Dutch -kīn
Middle Dutch -kijn
Dutch -tjen
Dutch -je
Dutch koekiebor.
English cookie