variants
or cooky
plural cookies
1
: a small flat or slightly raised cake
2
3
: a small file or part of a file stored on a World Wide Web user's computer, created and subsequently read by a website server, and containing personal information (such as a user identification code, customized preferences, or a record of pages visited)
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This recipe makes about two dozen cookies.
She put a batch of cookies into the oven.
Don't worry about her—she's a tough cookie.
You are one smart cookie.
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Vallery Lomas honored the resilience of her native New Orleans and the tenth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina with beignet ice cream accompanied by a strawberry cookie.
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Taryn White, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025
Break cookies into large pieces and place in a food processor bowl; pulse until fine crumbs, about 10 pulses.
—Kimberly Holland, Southern Living, 18 Aug. 2025
Last Crumb's cookies are excellent edible gifts, with a luxurious flavor and mouthfeel and the price tag to match.
—Louryn Strampe, Wired News, 16 Aug. 2025
And with over 1,000 multinational businesses having exited from Russia, the Kremlin is running out of new cookie jars to raid to keep the lights on.
—Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Time, 16 Aug. 2025
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Taryn White, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025
Break cookies into large pieces and place in a food processor bowl; pulse until fine crumbs, about 10 pulses.
—Kimberly Holland, Southern Living, 18 Aug. 2025
Last Crumb's cookies are excellent edible gifts, with a luxurious flavor and mouthfeel and the price tag to match.
—Louryn Strampe, Wired News, 16 Aug. 2025
And with over 1,000 multinational businesses having exited from Russia, the Kremlin is running out of new cookie jars to raid to keep the lights on.
—Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Time, 16 Aug. 2025
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“Cookie.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cookie. Accessed 28 Aug. 2025.
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cookie
noun
cook·ie
variants
or cooky
plural cookies
1
: a small sweet flat or slightly raised cake
2
: a small computer file that contains information relating to websites a person has visited
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