cookie
English
/ˈkʊki/, /ˈkuːki/
noun
Definitions
- (North America) A small, flat, baked good which is either crisp or soft but firm.
- (UK) A sweet baked good (as in the previous sense) usually having chocolate chips, fruit, nuts etc. baked into it.
- (Scotland) A bun.
- (computing) An HTTP cookie.
- (computing) A magic cookie.
- (slang) An attractive young woman.
- (slang) The female genitalia.
- (slang) A piece of crack cocaine, larger than a rock, and often in the shape of a cookie.
Etymology
Borrowed from Dutch, Flemish koekje (little cake) derived from Proto-Germanic *kōkô (bun, cake, roll).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*kōkô
Gloss
bun, cake, roll
Concept
Semantic Field
Modern world
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- butter English
- cookie butter English
- cookieholic English
- cookieless English
- cookielike English
- cookies English
- ever English
- evercookie English
- kuchen English
- quiche English
- quichelike English
- subcookie English
- supercookie English
- Apfelkuchen German
- Aschenkuchen German
- Baumkuchen German
- Blechkuchen German
- Eierkuchen German
- Flammkuchen German
- Honigkuchen German
- Kirschkuchen German
- Kuchen German
- Kuchenbesteck German
- Kuchenblech German
- Kuchengabel German
- Kuchenlöffel German
- Kuchenmesser German
- Küchlein German
- Lebkuchen German
- Mutterkuchen German
- Napfkuchen German
- Obstkuchen German
- Pfannkuchen German
- Pflaumenkuchen German
- Pustekuchen German
- Rosinenkuchen German
- Schokoladenkuchen German
- Spritzkuchen German
- Streuselkuchen German
- Zwiebelkuchen German
- cookie Dutch, Flemish
- gelukskoekje Dutch, Flemish
- koekje Dutch, Flemish
- koekjessnijder Dutch, Flemish
- cookie French
- quiche French
- куки Russian
- cookie Spanish, Castilian
- *gog- Proto-Indo-European
- cookie Portuguese
- *kōkô Proto-Germanic
- クッキー Japanese
- クーヘン Japanese
- cookie Polish
- kuko Esperanto
- cookie Catalan, Valencian
- कुकी Hindi
- คุกกี้ Thai
- kuocho Old High German
- kuohho Old High German
- kuohhō Old High German
- kuoche Middle High German
- *kuoko Old Dutch
- Cookie Chinese
- 曲奇 Chinese
- 曲奇餅 Chinese
- kôke Middle Low German
- *kōko Old Saxon
- 쿠키 Korean
- kōke Old Frisian
- Kook Low German
- koke Low German