Main Entry: cook·ie

Variant(s): or cooky \ˈku̇-kē\

Function: noun

Inflected Form(s): plural cook·ies

Etymology: Dutch koekje, diminutive of koek cake

Date: 1703

1 : a small flat or slightly raised cake
2 a : an attractive woman <a buxom French cookie who haunts the…colony's one night spot — Newsweek> b : person, guy <a tough cookie>
3 cookie : a small file or part of a file stored on a World Wide Web user's computer, created and subsequently read by a Web site server, and containing personal information (as a user identification code, customized preferences, or a record of pages visited)