cookie

UK /ˈkʊki/ US /ˈkʊki/

noun 7verb 1name 1

Definitions

noun

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.

verb

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.

noun

Affectionate name for a cook.

More than a little apprehensive myself, I went out to the kitchen. Cookie, deep in a murder story, rocked peacefully beside the glowing range.

"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."

Collocations

ADJ.

cutest, deep, empty, last, over, silly, tough, turned

My daughter ate the last cookie before I could have one for dessert.

VERB + COOKIE

asking, begging, come, eat, eating, get, gun, say

The kids were begging for cookies before dinner.

COOKIE + NOUN

adventure, dough, jar, kate, mary, mum, plate, recipe

My mum always kept a cookie jar full of chocolate chip cookies on the kitchen counter.

PREP.

from, in, in, off, on, on, than, through

She took a bite from the cookie jar while waiting for dinner.

ADV.

uniformly

The baker spread chocolate chips uniformly across the cookie dough before baking.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — any of various small flat sweet cakes (`biscuit' is the Brit

noun — the cook on a ranch or at a camp

cooky

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

sharp cookie

One who is intelligent, bright, or sharp; especially, one who can identify attempts to deceive or mislead.

She's a sharp cookie and will have no trouble seeing a sales pitch for what it is.

that's the way the cookie crumbles

That is the way things happen; that's life.

Are you up to par with the hep talk that is going around schools like Norwood High? […] While standing by the H2o spurt (water fountain) we overheard the following conversation bet

that's how the cookie crumbles

Alternative form of that's the way the cookie crumbles.

Oreo cookie

A black person that appears to the community to embody the social and cultural features of a white person

oreo cookie, derogatory term from the 1960s, from the trade name for the cookies consisting of two chocolate biscuits sandwiching a white creamy center. Oreo is used for a black pe

Example Bank

a little girl was eating a cookie and spitting. “Do you have hair on your cookie?” “Don't be silly. I'm only eleven.”

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Her legs hung over the edge and the large towel covered just enough of her lap to hide her 'cookie'.

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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

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We have already discussed the benefits — even the necessity — of cookieing visitors so that we can track their return visits to our Website.

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

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More than a little apprehensive myself, I went out to the kitchen. Cookie, deep in a murder story, rocked peacefully beside the glowing range.

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Usage Notes

i Register

In some senses, cookie is marked as dated, slang, US, UK, colloquial. Watch for register when choosing this word.

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