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cookie
[ kook-ee ]
noun
- a small, usually round and flat cake, the size of an individual portion, made from stiff, sweetened dough, and baked.
- Informal. dear; sweetheart (a term of address, usually connoting affection).
- Slang.
- a person, usually of a specified character or type:
a smart cookie;
a tough cookie.
- an alluring young woman.
- Also called http cookie;. Digital Technology. a file or segment of data that identifies a unique user over time and across interactions with a website, sent by the web server through a browser, stored on a user’s hard drive, and sent back to the server each time the browser requests a web page:
Your browser will run more efficiently after you clear the cache and cookies.
- South Atlantic States (chiefly North Carolina). a doughnut.
- Scot. a bun.
verb (used with object)
- Digital Technology. to assign a cookie or cookies to (a website user):
I'm not really comfortable being cookied all the time.
cookie
/ ˈʊɪ /
noun
- a small flat dry sweet or plain cake of many varieties, baked from a dough Also called (in Britain and certain other countries)biscuit
- a Scot word for bun
- informal.a person
smart cookie
- computing a piece of data downloaded to a computer by a website, containing details of the preferences of that computer's user which identify the user when revisiting that website
- that's the way the cookie crumbles informal.matters are inevitably or unalterably so
cookie
/ k′ŧ /
- A collection of information, usually including a username and the current date and time, stored on the local computer of a person using the World Wide Web, used chiefly by websites to identify users who have previously registered or visited the site. Cookies are used to relate one computer transaction to a later one.
yvlog History and Origins
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of cookie1
Idioms and Phrases
- toss / spill one's cookies, Slang. to vomit.
More idioms and phrases containing cookie
see hand in the till (cookie jar) ; that's how the ball bounces (cookie crumbles) ; toss one's cookies .Example Sentences
Fridays after school and figure skating practice, I’d set out the lineup — chocolate chips, brown sugar, eggs, vanilla, Crisco — pressing the dough into fat, craggy mounds on my mom’s old cookie sheets.
“They want their home back not some cookie cutter home that will devalue the neighborhood.”
You may want to read X’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting.
The site was dampened by recent rain, so Risa suggests spreading the ashes on a cookie sheet and allowing them to dry a bit, before scattering them in the ocean.
I always appreciate it when the Oscars happen in middle of Girl Scout cookie season, so yes, locked and loaded for steady Thin Mint consumption.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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