cookie
noun
- baked treat
- small amount of data stored on a client computer on the request of a webserver
- small flat sweet baked good which is soft and chewy and typically contains chocolate chips or raisins
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈkʊki/ / /ˈkuːki/ / /ˈkʉke/
name
Etymology: From cookie, the snack food.
- An endearing or condescending nickname.
“Anyway, I went into the house and before I could get passed the bedroom, he called me. I hated him for calling me. He would say, “Come here, Cookie,” and for some reason, I was stupid and scared and I listened to this man.”
“Fry: Robot Devil? I get your hands? Zam! Robot Devil: Oh, what an appallingly ironic outcome. Bender: It's not ironic, it's just coincidental. Now fork over those lady-fingers, Cookie!”
noun
Etymology: Corruption of cucoloris.
- A cucoloris.
verb
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 ? Proto-West Germanic *-ukīn Old Dutch -kīn Middle Dutch -kijn Dutch -tjen Dutch -je Dutch koekiebor. English cookie 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.
- To send a cookie to (a user, computer, etc.).
“We have already discussed the benefits — even the necessity — of cookieing visitors so that we can track their return visits to our Website.”
“At Oracle, they cookie you before and after you register.”