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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Examples of cookie in a Sentence
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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Rapper and independent music label owner Young Dolph was fatally shot at a cookie shop in November 2021.
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Arkansas Online, 13 Sep. 2025
Decades later, that early love for baking has grown into Pinckney Cookie Café, a Seattle-area gourmet cookie company that is building a national following, thanks in large part to its booming online orders.
—Malana Vantyler, USA Today, 12 Sep. 2025
General Mills has your snack table covered beyond cookies with all-new Annie’s Pasta Spirals with Creamy Queso and Chex Mix 20-ounce tubs, both ideal for sharing when the whole crew shows up hungry.
—Melinda Salchert, Southern Living, 12 Sep. 2025
Bakers have been shaping cookies to resemble animals since at least the 6th or 7th century, when they were used for a pre-Christian Germanic/Nordic midwinter festival known as Julfest.
—Gretchen McKay, Twin Cities, 12 Sep. 2025
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Arkansas Online, 13 Sep. 2025
Decades later, that early love for baking has grown into Pinckney Cookie Café, a Seattle-area gourmet cookie company that is building a national following, thanks in large part to its booming online orders.
—Malana Vantyler, USA Today, 12 Sep. 2025
General Mills has your snack table covered beyond cookies with all-new Annie’s Pasta Spirals with Creamy Queso and Chex Mix 20-ounce tubs, both ideal for sharing when the whole crew shows up hungry.
—Melinda Salchert, Southern Living, 12 Sep. 2025
Bakers have been shaping cookies to resemble animals since at least the 6th or 7th century, when they were used for a pre-Christian Germanic/Nordic midwinter festival known as Julfest.
—Gretchen McKay, Twin Cities, 12 Sep. 2025
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“Cookie.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cookie. Accessed 16 Sep. 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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