cookie
/ˈkʊki
/noun (plural cookies)
1North American A sweet biscuit.But we don't have to give up the delicious combination of creamy icing and crisp chocolate cookie....
- The preparations will include varieties of rice items, sweets, fried items, cookies, cakes and juices.
- People set aside time to make cookies, cakes, and decorations.
2 [with adjective] informal A person of a specified kind: she’s a tough cookie...
- It is a waiting game and a praying game but he is a tough cookie.
- If they say I'm a tough cookie, it's because they're sloppy.
- But Andy is a tough cookie, and he is sticking it out.
3Scottish A plain bun.
4 Computing 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, used to identify the user or track their access to the server.Some servers use cookies to track users from site to site, and some use them to uncover the identity of the user....
- He had failed to grasp the fact that the browser itself stores the cookies on the user's hard drive.
- The main purpose of a cookie is to identify users and possibly prepare customized Web pages for them.
Phrases
that's the way the cookie crumbles
Origin
Early 18th century: from Dutch koekje 'little cake', diminutive of koek.
Rhymes
- the final straw
- the finer points of
- the finished article
- the firing line
- (the) first among equals
- (the) first cab off the rank
- the Flat
- the Fleet
- the Flemish
- the Flood
- the fog of war
- the forbidden degrees
- the Forties
- the fortunes of war
- the Forty-five
- the fountain of youth
- the four freedoms
- the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
- the four main centres
- the fourth estate
- the fourth wall
- the Free State
- the free world
- the Fringe
- the fruit of the vine