cookie

cookie
cook|ie [ˈkuki] n
[Date: 1700-1800; : Dutch; Origin: koekje, from koek 'cake']
1.) especially AmE a small flat sweet cake
British Equivalent: biscuit
a glass of milk and a cookie
a chocolate chip cookie
2.) tough/smart cookie informal
someone who is clever and successful, and knows how to get what they want
3.) that's the way the cookie crumbles informal
said when something bad has happened and you must accept things the way they are, even though you do not want to
4.) technical information that a website leaves in your computer so that the website will recognize you when you use it again
5.) AmE old-fashioned an attractive young woman

Dictionary of contemporary English. 2013.

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