variants:
or cooky
plural cookies
Definition of cookie
1
: a small flat or slightly raised cake
2a
: an attractive woman
a buxom French cookie who haunts the … colony's one night spot — Newsweek
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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The first known use of cookie was in 1796
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