cookie

• IPA^(key): /ˈkʊki/, enPR: ko͝ok'i

  • Audio (General Australian):

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• (sometimes in Northern England) IPA^(key): /ˈkuːki/, enPR: ko͞ok'i
• (Scotland, Northern Ireland) IPA^(key): /ˈkʉke/, /-kɪ/, /-ki/
• Homophone: kooky (foot-goose merger, some other UK pronunciations)
• Rhymes: -ʊki, -uːki

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.

• cookey, cooky (dated)

cookie (plural cookies)

1. (Canada, US, Philippines) A small, flat, baked good which is either crisp or soft but firm.

   Synonyms: biscuit, (UK, Australia) bickie

2. (UK, Commonwealth) A sweet baked good (as in the previous sense) usually having chocolate chips, fruit, nuts, etc. baked into it.
3. (Scotland) A bun.
5. (computing, Internet, by ellipsis) An HTTP cookie.
7. (computing, by ellipsis) A magic cookie.
8. (slang, dated) An attractive young woman.
9. (slang, vulgar, euphemistic) The vulva.
   • 1968, Gershon Legman, quoting anonymous informant from New York, 1953, Rationale of the Dirty Joke‎^[1], 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^[2], 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.

10. (slang, vulgar, LGBTQ) The anus of a man.
11. (slang, drugs) A piece of crack cocaine, larger than a rock, and often in the shape of a cookie.

    Hypernym: pie

12. (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.

13. (informal) Clipping of fortune cookie.
14. (Northern US) A doughnut; a peel-out or skid mark in the shape of a circle.

• 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.

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

cookie (third-person singular simple present cookies, present participle cookieing, simple past and past participle cookied)

1. (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^[3]:

     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^[4]:

     At Oracle, they cookie you before and after you register.

• cracker (UK)

• cookie on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• magic cookie on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• HTTP cookie on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

From cook + -ie.

cookie (plural cookies)

1. (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."

Corruption of cucoloris.

cookie (plural cookies)

1. (slang) A cucoloris.

Borrowed from English cookie.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈku.ki]^[1]

cookie m (plural cookies)

1. (computing) cookie

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈkuki/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: coo‧kie

cookie n (plural cookies, diminutive cookietje n)

1. (computing) cookie

Borrowed from English cookie.

• IPA^(key): /ku.ki/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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• Audio (France (Toulouse)):

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• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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cookie m (plural cookies)

1. (France) cookie (American-style biscuit)
2. (computing) cookie

   Hyponyms: témoin de navigation, témoin

Unadapted borrowing from English cookie.

• IPA^(key): /ˈku.ki/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -uki
• Syllabification: coo‧kie

cookie n (indeclinable)

1. (Internet) cookie, HTTP cookie (packet of information sent by a server to browser)

   Synonym: ciasteczko

• “cookie”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[5] (in Polish)

Unadapted borrowing from English cookie.

• Rhymes: -uki
• (Brazil) Homophones: cuck, cuque

cookie (Brazil) m or (Portugal) f (plural cookies)

1. (Internet, computing) cookie, HTTP cookie
2. (Brazil) cookie (American-style biscuit)

   Hypernym: biscoito

• “cookie”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “cookie”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Unadapted borrowing from English cookie.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkuki/ [ˈku.ki]
• Rhymes: -uki

cookie m or f same meaning (plural cookies) (less common in the masculine)

1. (Internet) cookie, HTTP cookie

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.

• “cookie”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025