cookie

Etymology 1

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.

noun

1. (Canada, US) A small, flat, baked good which is either crisp or soft but firm.
2. (UK, Commonwealth) A sweet baked good (as in the previous sense) usually having chocolate chips, fruit, nuts, etc. baked into it.
3. (Scotland) A bun.
4. (computing, Internet) An HTTP cookie.
5. (computing) A magic cookie.
6. (slang, dated) An attractive young woman.
7. (slang, vulgar) The vulva.
   Her legs hung over the edge and the large towel covered just enough of her lap to hide her 'cookie'. 2009, T. R. Oulds, Story of Many Secret Night, Lulu.com, published 2010
   If she wanted to compete in this dog-eat-pussy world, she had to keep up her personal grooming, even if it meant spreading her legs and letting some Vietnamese woman rip the hair off her cookie every other week. 2010, Lennie Ross, Blow me, Lulu.com, published 2010, page 47
   Cookie put his butt to sleep, now he callin' me Nyquil. 2014, Nicki Minaj, "Anaconda" (Clean Version), The Pinkprint
8. (slang, drugs) A piece of crack cocaine, larger than a rock, and often in the shape of a cookie.
9. (informal, in the plural) One's eaten food (e.g. lunch, etc.), especially one's stomach contents.
   I lost my cookies after that roller coaster ride.
   I feel sick, like I'm about to toss my cookies.
10. (informal) Clipping of fortune cookie.

verb

1. (computing, transitive) To send a cookie to (a user, computer, etc.).
   We have already discussed the benefits — even the necessity — of cookieing visitors so that we can track their return visits to our Website. 2000, Ralph Kimball, Richard Merz, The Data Webhouse Toolkit: Building the Web-Enabled Data Warehouse
   At Oracle, they cookie you before and after you register. 2002, Jim Sterne, Web Metrics: Proven Methods for Measuring Web Site Success

Etymology 2

From cook + -ie.

noun

1. (dated, colloquial) Affectionate name for a cook.
   More than a little apprehensive myself, I went out to the kitchen. Cookie, deep in a murder story, rocked peacefully beside the glowing range. 1954, Blackwood's Magazine, volumes 275-276, page 340
   "You must show cookie here how grateful you are for all the trouble she's taken." The boy didn't move. "Go on, get on with it," the Trunchbull said. "Cut a slice and taste it. We haven't got all day." 1988, Roald Dahl, Matilda

Etymology 3

Corruption of cucoloris.

noun

1. (slang) A cucoloris.