cookie
/ˈkʊki/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.07 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A small, flat, baked good which is either crisp or soft but firm.
Canadian usage; American usage
noun
A sweet baked good (as in the previous sense) usually having chocolate chips, fruit, nuts, etc. baked into it.
British usage
noun
A bun.
noun
An HTTP cookie.
noun
A magic cookie.
Example Sentences
- "a little girl was eating a cookie and spitting. “Do you have hair on your cookie?” “Don't be silly. I'm only eleven.”"
- "Her legs hung over the edge and the large towel covered just enough of her lap to hide her 'cookie'."
- "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."
- "Cookie put his butt to sleep, now he callin' me Nyquil."
- "I lost my cookies after that roller coaster ride."
- "I feel sick, like I'm about to toss my cookies."
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.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: koekie, *kōkô
Usage
- Canadian usage
- American usage
- British usage
- Dated
- Slang
- Informal
- Transitive verb
- Colloquial