Definition
nounA small, flat, baked good which is either crisp or soft but firm.
nounA sweet baked good (as in the previous sense) usually having chocolate chips, fruit, nuts, etc. baked into it.
Sentence Examples
I guess that's just the way the cookie crumbles.
Cookie likes adventure stories.
Word Origin & History
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
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.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"a little girl was eating a cookie and spitting. “Do you have hair on your cookie?” “Don't be silly. I'm only eleven.”"
— 1968, Gershon Legman, quoting anonymous informant from New York, 1953, Rationale of the Dirty Joke, page 100:
"Her legs hung over the edge and the large towel covered just enough of her lap to hide her 'cookie'."
— 2009, T. R. Oulds, Story of Many Secret Night, Lulu.com, published 2010, →ISBN:
"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."
— 2010, Lennie Ross, Blow me, Lulu.com, published 2010, →ISBN, page 47:
"We have already discussed the benefits — even the necessity — of cookieing visitors so that we can track their return visits to our Website."
— 2000, Ralph Kimball, Richard Merz, The Data Webhouse Toolkit: Building the Web-Enabled Data Warehouse:
"At Oracle, they cookie you before and after you register."
— 2002, Jim Sterne, Web Metrics: Proven Methods for Measuring Web Site Success: