cookie

Significado

Noun

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

Verb

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

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ˈkʊki/

Etimologia

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.