cookie

Noun

1. (Canada, Philippines, US) A small, flat, baked good which is either crisp or soft but firm.
2. (Commonwealth, UK) A sweet baked good (as in the previous sense) usually having chocolate chips, fruit, nuts, etc. baked into it.
3. (Scotland) A bun.
4. (Internet) An HTTP cookie.
5. A magic cookie.
6. (dated, slang) An attractive young woman.
7. (slang, vulgar) The vulva.
8. (slang, vulgar) The anus of a man.
9. (slang) A piece of crack cocaine, larger than a rock, and often in the shape of a cookie.
10. (in-plural, informal) One's eaten food (e.g. lunch, etc.), especially one's stomach contents.
11. (abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, informal) Clipping of fortune cookie.
12. (Northern-US) A doughnut; a peel-out or skid mark in the shape of a circle.

Verb

To send a cookie to (a user, computer, etc.).

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈkʊki/

Etymology

Cognate with Low German: Kook

Cognate with German: Kuchen

In summary

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.

Synonyms

biscuit

cooky

cake

🍰

cracker

pie

🥧

pastry

biscuit

candy

🍬

gateau

chef

cocci

coccus

cook

🧑‍🍳

cookies

bun

box

📦

critter

éclair

fortune cookie

🥠

fucker

biscuit porcelain

bisque

biscuits

pretzel

🥨

slugger

snap

sweet

token

zwieback

biscut

petit four

magic cookie

bickie

bicky

case

Translations

biscuit

galleta

Keks

🍪

biscotto

Cookie

🍪

galeta

Plätzchen

bolacha

ciastko

biscoito

🍪

koekje

ciasteczko

μπισκότο

crustulum

cookie

🍪