COOKIE


Meaning of COOKIE in English

■ noun ( plural ~s )

1》 N. Amer. a sweet biscuit.

2》 informal a person of a specified kind: she's a tough ~.

3》 Scottish a plain bun.

4》 Computing a packet of data sent by an Internet server to a browser and used to identify the user or track their access to the server.

Phrases

that's the way the ~ crumbles informal, chiefly N. Amer. that's the situation, and it must be accepted, however undesirable.

Origin

C18: from Du. koekje 'little cake', dimin. of koek .

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