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▪ I. cookie Chiefly Sc. and N. Amer.|ˈkʊkɪ|
Also cooky, cookey.
[prob. a. Du. koekje (ˈkuːkjə) dim. of koek cake: this is app. certain for U.S.; but for Scotland historical evidence has not been found.]
1. a. In Scotland the usual name for a baker's plain bun; in U.S. usually a small flat sweet cake (a biscuit in U.K.), but locally a name for small cakes of various form with or without sweetening. Also S. Afr. and Canad.
c1730Burt Lett. N. Scot. (1760) II. xxiv. 272 In the Low-Country the Cakes are called Cookies. 1808W. Irving Salmag. (1824) 368 Those notable cakes, hight new-year cookies. 1816Scott Antiq. xv, Muckle obliged to ye for your cookies, Mrs. Shortcake. 1852D. G. Mitchell Dream Life 97 Very dry cookies, spiced with caraway seeds. 1852Barter Dorp & Veld 107 Cookies, or unleavened cakes of coarse meal, baked on the grid-iron. 1870B. Harte Luck Roar. Camp 227 (Farmer) He lost every hoof and hide, I'll bet a cookey! 1897E. Glanville Tales from Veld 51 Raking the ‘cookie’ from the fire-place, whence it came baking hot. 1935M. de la Roche Young Renny xxiv. 214 Mary was arranging plates of bread and butter, thick ginger cookies,..and a bowl of halved peaches. 1968Globe & Mail (Toronto) 17 Feb. 6/2 Children sneaking cookies from a cookie jar.
b. Comb., as cookie-pusher (U.S. colloq.), a counter attendant; fig., a man leading a futile social life; spec., a diplomat allegedly devoting more attention to protocol or social engagements than to his work; cookie-shine (humorous), a tea-party (cf. tea-fight).
1942Berrey & Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §449/1 Cookie pusher..a party attender. Ibid. §452/3 Dandy, ‘dude’ ..cookie pusher. Ibid. §825/15 Ladies' man..cookie-pusher. 1946Word Study May 2/1 State Department officials have long been called ‘cookie pushers’. 1961Times 30 May 10/6 The chairman of the House sub-committee..still..dismisses all diplomatists as ‘cooky-pushers’. 1962Economist 29 Sept. 1211/3 The popular image of the cookie-pusher in Foggy Bottom.
1863Reade Hard Cash v, Conversaziones, cookey-shines, etcetera. 1867N. & Q. Ser. iii. XII. 195/2 From the frequent appearance of these [cookies] at tea-parties, the latter are irreverently spoken of as Cookie Shines.
2. slang (orig. U.S.).
a. A woman; esp. an attractive girl.
b. A man, often with defining word.
1920Collier's 6 Mar. 42/3 That girl friend of yours is a cookie—hey, what? 1928Chicago Tribune 7 Oct. (Comics) 2 What a swell bunch of cookies you turned out to be. 1942Amer. Mercury Oct. 436/1 Just about the toughest cookie ever born. 1948F. Brown Murder can be Fun (1951) x. 146 A smart cookie, that Wilkins. 1953W. R. Burnett Vanity Row xvi. 110 He's a real tough cookie and you know it. 1959R. Longrigg Wrong Number ii. 27, I met a cookie I know... She said you'd said Faustus was like Oklahoma.
3. A bomb. Air Force slang.
1943in Amer. Speech (1944) XIX. 310/1, I am flying in one of three Lancasters which will drop hundreds of incendiaries as well as 4,000-pound ‘cookies’. 1944R. Dimbleby in War Report (B.B.C.) (1946) xiv. 280 But I did see heavy bombs, cookies, going down into the brown smoke.
4. Colloq. phr. (chiefly U.S.): (that's) how (or the way) the cookie crumbles, (that is) how the position resolves itself; that is the way it is.
1957Sat. Even. Post 7 Sept. 59 From then on, that's the way the cooky crumbled. I enjoyed having good ratings, but I didn't enjoy the viciousness of the railbirds' thrusts at Berle. 1959Wenzell Brown Cry Kill iv. 45 No matter how the cookie crumbled, Mamma Ida was in for a bad time. 1961Wodehouse Ice in Bedroom v. 40 Oh well, that's the way the cookie crumbles. You can't win 'em all. 1964Listener 16 Apr. 612/2 We shall not know how, as the Americans say, the cookie crumbles.
▸ N. Amer. slang. to toss (also shoot, etc.) one's cookies: to vomit.
1927Los Angeles Times 4 Aug. i. 21/3 An hour later, according to the log, ‘McFie shot his cookies’, the only sea-sickness on the voyage. 1940C. Odets Night Music iii. i. 213 They tossed their cookies in the train. Imagine what might happen in a plane. 1974Coe Cosmos (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) 28 Feb. 2/2 Beer was free, the place was packed, no one blew their cookies on the carpet, and everyone appeared to have a good time. 2002S. Andrews Fault Line (2003) 31 She jumped up and ran for the bathroom, where the now-familiar sounds of Faye Carter tossing her cookies reverberated off the splendid tile job.
▸ Computing. A token or packet of data that is passed between computers or programs to allow access or to activate certain features; (in recent use spec.) a packet of data sent by an Internet server to a browser, which is returned by the browser each time it subsequently accesses the same server, thereby identifying the user or monitoring his or her access to the server. Cf. magic cookie n. at magic adj. Special uses.
Magic cookie is the more usual term in the field of UNIX programming, whilst cookie is prevalent when referring to browsers and the Internet.
1987D. L. Mills Request for Comments (Network Working Group) (Electronic text) No. 1004. 1 The proposed procedures require each association to be assigned a random session key, which is provided by an authentication server called the Cookie Jar. 1991H. Stern Managing NFS & NIS iii. 71 If a hostname is not found in the NIS map, this cookie instructs NIS to look up the name with the domain name server. 1996Marketing Computers (Nexis) Jan. Netscape's ‘cookie’..can track what's going on at which web sites. 1996Sci. Amer. Oct. 32/2 If cookies are handy for Web shoppers, site developers, advertisers and trackers, they are irritating and intrusive to many users who do not want to leave behind a digital fingerprint. 1998Windows Mag. (Nexis) 1 Feb. 261 Cookies let a Web server send the browser a unique number, in essence saying, ‘Please return this number with any request you make from now on’.
▪ II. cookie
var. cookee. |