cookie

/ˈkʊki/

/ˈkʊki/

A cookie is a round, sweet baked good that's often eaten with a glass of milk. You might bake three dozen cookies to sell at your swim team's bake sale.

In Britain, it's a biscuit, and in the US it's a cookie. In both cases, it's a small cake that's baked on a cookie sheet. Your favorite cookies might be chocolate chip — or maybe you're more of an oatmeal raisin cookie type. When you see cookie in the context of computers, it means a bit of data that's sent from a website to your browser. This type of cookie helps your computer remember passwords and web pages it's visited.

Definitions of cookie

1. noun

   any of various small flat sweet cakes (`biscuit' is the British term)
   synonyms: biscuit, cooky

   types:

   tea biscuit, teacake

   flat semisweet cookie or biscuit usually served with tea

   dog biscuit

   a hard biscuit for dogs

   butter cookie

   cookie containing much butter

   spice cookie

   cookie flavored with spices

   almond cookie, almond crescent

   very rich cookie containing ground almonds; usually crescent-shaped

   brownie

   square or bar of very rich chocolate cake usually with nuts

   ginger nut, ginger snap, gingersnap, snap

   a crisp round cookie flavored with ginger

   macaroon

   chewy cookie usually containing coconut shavings

   kiss

   a cookie made of egg whites and sugar

   ladyfinger

   small finger-shaped sponge cake

   anise cookie

   cookie made without butter and flavored with anise seed

   molasses cookie

   very spicy cookies sweetened partially with molasses

   oreo, oreo cookie

   chocolate cookie with white cream filling

   raisin-nut cookie

   cookie filled with a paste of raisins and nuts

   refrigerator cookie

   dough formed into a roll and chilled in the refrigerator then sliced and baked

   raisin cookie

   cookie containing raisins

   fruit bar

   cookies containing chopped fruits either mixed in the dough or spread between layers of dough then baked and cut in bars

   sugar cookie

   cookies sprinkled with granulated sugar

   oatmeal cookie

   cookies containing rolled oats

   Toll House cookie, chocolate chip cookie

   cookies containing chocolate chips

   fortune cookie

   thin folded wafer containing a maxim on a slip of paper

   gingerbread man

   gingerbread cut in the shape of a person

   wafer

   a small thin crisp cake or cookie

   granola bar

   cookie bar made of granola

   shortbread, shortbread cookie

   a very rich, thick butter cookie

   ratafia, ratafia biscuit

   macaroon flavored with ratafia liqueur

   coconut macaroon

   macaroon containing coconut

   apricot bar

   fruit bar containing apricot jam

   date bar

   fruit bar containing chopped dates

   brandysnap

   a gingersnap flavored with brandy

   type of:

   cake

   baked goods made from or based on a mixture of flour, sugar, eggs, and fat
2. noun

   a short line of text that a web site puts on your computer's hard drive when you access the web site
   types:

   session cookie

   a cookie that is stored temporarily and is destroyed when you close the link

   precision cookie

   a cookie that is saved permanently on your hard drive

   type of:

   text, textual matter

   the words of something written
3. noun

   the cook on a ranch or at a camp
   synonyms: cooky

   type of:

   cook

   someone who cooks food