Cookie
WordNet
noun
(1) A short line of text that a web site puts on your computer's hard drive when you access the web site
(2) Any of various small flat sweet cakes (`biscuit' is the British term)
(3) The cook on a ranch or at a camp
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Etymology
From Dutch koekje (possibly through dialectal variation koekie), diminutive of koek.
Noun
- A small flat, baked cake which is either crisp or soft but firm (often with chocolate chips, candies or nuts mixed in.)
- A specifically American-style biscuit.
- a bun.
- An HTTP cookie, web cookie.
- A magic cookie.
- 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).