WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026
cook′ie sheet′.
WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2026- FoodSee under cookie (def. 1).
- 1925–30
cook•ie or cook•y /ˈkʊki/USA pronunciation
n. [countable], pl. -ies.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026- Fooda small, flat, sweetened cake made from dough and baked on a pan:a plate of chocolate chip cookies.
- Slang TermsSlang.
- a person: He's a smart cookie;
he won't get caught by the cops. - Sex and GenderSometimes Offensive. an alluring woman.
- a person: He's a smart cookie;
- that's the way the cookie crumbles, (used after a description of an event to imply that things normally occur this way and nothing more can be done):"The train was late again.'' "Well, that's the way the cookie crumbles.''
- Idioms, toss or spill one's cookies, Slang. to vomit.
cook•ie
(kŏŏk′ē),USA pronunciation n.
cookie, +n.
- Fooda small cake made from stiff, sweet dough rolled and sliced or dropped by spoonfuls on a large, flat pan (cookie sheet)and baked.
- [Informal.]dear;
sweetheart (a term of address, usually connoting affection). - Slang Terms
- a person:a smart cookie; a tough cookie.
- Sex and Genderan alluring young woman.
- Dialect Terms[South Atlantic U.S.](chiefly North Carolina). a doughnut.
- Scottish Termsa bun.
- toss or spill one's cookies, [Slang.]to vomit.
- Dutch koekie, dialect, dialectal variant of koekje, equivalent. to koek cake + -je diminutive suffix
- 1695–1705,
cookie, +n.
- Computinga message, or segment of data, containing information about a user, sent by a Web server to a browser and sent back to the server each time the browser requests a Web page.
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