n.
Variant: or cooky
Pronunciation: ' ku ̇ -k ē
Function: noun
Inflected Form: plural cook · ies
Etymology: Dutch koekje, diminutive of koek cake
Date: 1703
1 : a small flat or slightly raised cake
2 a : an attractive woman <a buxom French cookie who haunts the ⋯ colony's one night spot ― Newsweek > b : PERSON , GUY <a tough cookie >
3 cookie : a small file or part of a file stored on a World Wide Web user's computer, created and subsequently read by a Web site server, and containing personal information (as a user identification code, customized preferences, or a record of pages visited)