cookie

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Peanut butter cookies.

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From Dutch koekje (possibly through dialectal variation koekie), diminutive of koek.

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Singular
cookie

Plural
cookies

cookie (plural cookies)

  1. (North American) A small flat, baked cake which is either crisp or soft but firm (often with chocolate chips, candies or nuts mixed in.)
  2. (England and Wales) A specifically American-style biscuit.
  3. (Scottish) a bun.
  4. (computing, browsers) An HTTP cookie, web cookie.
  5. (computing) A magic cookie.
  6. A young, attractive woman. As it is often intended to sexually objectify said woman, it can be seen as offensive (though only mildly, as it is a somewhat dated term, but not yet obsolete).

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cookie n. (plural cookies)

  1. cookie, a packet of information sent by a server to browser

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