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cookie

name · noun · verb · 19 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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Pronunciation

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  • /ˈkʊki/
  • ko͝ok'i
  • Australia: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • sometimes: /ˈkuːki/ in Northern England
  • sometimes: ko͞ok'i in Northern England
  • Northern-Ireland, Scotland: /ˈkʉke/
  • Northern-Ireland, Scotland: /-kɪ/
  • Northern-Ireland, Scotland: /-ki/
  • homophone: kooky (foot-goose merger, some other UK pronunciations)
  • rhymes with -ʊki
  • rhymes with -uːki
  • CMU ARPABET: K UH1 K IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

name

Meaning 1

An endearing or condescending nickname.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

A small, flat, baked good which is either crisp or soft but firm.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: Canada, Philippines, US

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: biscuit, bickie

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

A sweet baked good (as in the previous sense) usually having chocolate chips, fruit, nuts, etc. baked into it.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: Commonwealth, UK

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

A bun.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: Scotland

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

5

noun

Meaning 5

An HTTP cookie.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: Internet

Qualifier: by ellipsis

Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

6

noun

Meaning 6

A magic cookie.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Qualifier: by ellipsis

Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

7

noun

Meaning 7

An attractive young woman.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: dated, slang

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

8

noun

Meaning 8

The vulva.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: euphemistic, slang, vulgar

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

9

noun

Meaning 9

The anus of a man.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: slang, vulgar

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

10

noun

Meaning 10

A piece of crack cocaine, larger than a rock, and often in the shape of a cookie.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: slang

Topics: drugs, medicine, pharmacology, sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: pie

11

noun

Meaning 11

One's eaten food (e.g. lunch, etc.), especially one's stomach contents.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: in-plural, informal

Examples

  • I lost my cookies after that roller coaster ride.
  • I feel sick, like I'm about to toss my cookies.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

12

noun

Meaning 12

Clipping of fortune cookie.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, informal

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

13

noun

Meaning 13

A doughnut; a peel-out or skid mark in the shape of a circle.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: Northern-US

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

14

noun

Meaning 14

Affectionate name for a cook.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: colloquial, dated

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

15

noun

Meaning 15

A cucoloris.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: slang

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

16

verb

Meaning 16

To send a cookie to (a user, computer, etc.).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

17

noun

Meaning 17

a short line of text that a web site puts on your computer's hard drive when you access the web site

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: text, textual matter

Narrower terms: session cookie, precision cookie

18

noun

Meaning 18

any of various small flat sweet cakes (`biscuit' is the British term)

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: cooky, biscuit

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: cake

Narrower terms: teacake, tea biscuit, dog biscuit, butter cookie, spice cookie, almond cookie, almond crescent, brownie, gingersnap, ginger snap, snap, ginger nut, macaroon, kiss, ladyfinger, anise cookie, molasses cookie, oreo, oreo cookie, raisin-nut cookie, refrigerator cookie, raisin cookie, fruit bar, sugar cookie, oatmeal cookie, chocolate chip cookie, Toll House cookie, fortune cookie, gingerbread man, wafer, granola bar

19

noun

Meaning 19

the cook on a ranch or at a camp

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: cooky

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: cook

History

Etymology

From cookie, the snack food.

Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *kōkô Old Dutch *kuoko Middle Dutch coeke Dutch koek Proto-Germanic *-ukaz Proto-West Germanic *-uk Proto-Germanic *-īną Proto-West Germanic *-īn ? Proto-West Germanic *-ukīn Old Dutch -kīn Middle Dutch -kijn Dutch -tjen Dutch -je Dutch koekiebor. English cookie Borrowed from Dutch koekie, dialectal diminutive of koek (“cake”), from Proto-Germanic *kōkô (compare German Low German Kookje (“biscuit, cookie, cracker”), Low German Kook (“cake”), German Kuchen (“cake”)). More at cake. Not related to English cook. The computing senses derive from magic cookie.

From cook + -ie.

Corruption of cucoloris.

Across languages

Translations

184 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Afrikaans: koekie — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Albanian: biskotë — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Albanian: galetë — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Amharic: ብስኩት (bəskut) — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Arabic: كُعَيْكَة (kuʕayka) — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Arabic: كُوكِي (kūkī) — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Arabic: بَسْكَوِيت (baskawīt) — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Arabic: بقْسْوي (bəqswi) — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Armenian: թխվածք (tʻxvackʻ) — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Armenian: պեչենի (pečʻeni) — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Azerbaijani: külçə — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Azerbaijani: biskvit — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Azerbaijani: kökə — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Azerbaijani: peçenye — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Baekje: okra — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Basque: gaileta — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Basque: biskotxa — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Belarusian: пе́чыва (pjéčyva) — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Belarusian: пячэ́нне (pjačénnje) — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Belarusian: пячэ́ньне (pjačénʹnje) — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Bengali: মিষ্ট রূটি (miśṭo ruṭi) — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Bengali: বিস্কুট (biskuṭ) — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Breton: gwispidenn — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Bulgarian: бискви́та (biskvíta) — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Bulgarian: кураби́я (kurabíja) — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Bulgarian: суха́р (suhár) — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Burmese: ဘီစကွတ် (bhica.kwat) — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Burmese: ဆိတ်နို့မုန့် (hcitnui.mun.) — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Catalan: galeta — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Catalan: bescuit — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Catalan: pasta de te — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Chinese Cantonese: 曲奇 (kuk1 kei4) — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Chinese Cantonese: 曲奇餅 /曲奇饼 (kuk1 kei4 beng2) — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Chinese Cantonese: 餅乾 /饼干 (beng2 gon1) — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Chinese Mandarin: 餅乾 /饼干 (bǐnggān) — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Chinese Mandarin: 曲奇 (qūqí) — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Chinese Mandarin: 曲奇餅 /曲奇饼 (qūqíbǐng) — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Cornish: tesen gales — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Czech: sušenka — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Danish: småkage — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Danish: kiks — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Dutch: koekje — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Esperanto: biskvito — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Estonian: küpsis — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Estonian: kook — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Estonian: biskviit — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Finnish: keksi — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Finnish: pikkuleipä — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • French: biscuit — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Galician: galleta — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Galician: pasta — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Georgian: ორცხობილა (orcxobila) — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • German: Keks — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • German: Plätzchen — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Greek: μπισκότο (biskóto) — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Greek: βούτημα (voútima) — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Ancient Greek: κόλλιξ (kóllix) — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Gujarati: કૂકી (kūkī) — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Hausa: fànkee — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Hausa: bìskît — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Hebrew: עוּגִיָּה — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Hebrew: עוגייה (ugi'a) — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Hebrew: בִּיסְקְוִיט — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Hebrew: ביסקוויט (bískvit) — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Hindi: कुकी (kukī) — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Hindi: बिस्कुट (biskuṭ) — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Hungarian: sütemény — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Hungarian: süti — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Hungarian: aprósütemény — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Hungarian: teasütemény — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Hunsrik: Bolasch — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Icelandic: kex — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Icelandic: smákaka — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Ido: bisquito — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Indonesian: biskuit — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Indonesian: kukis — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Italian: biscotto — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Japanese: クッキー (kukkī) — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Japanese: ビスケット (bisuketto) — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Javanese: biskuit — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Javanese: kukis — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Kamwe: okra — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Kannada: ಕುಕಿ (kuki) — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Karelian: pišketti — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Kazakh: печенье (peçene) — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Khmer: ខូគី (khoukii) — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Korean: 쿠키 (kuki) — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Korean: 비스킷 (biseukit) — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Kyrgyz: печенье (pecenye) — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Lao: ຂະຫນົມປັງ (kha nom pang) — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Latin: crustulum — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Latin: copta — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Latvian: cepums — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Latvian: biskvīts — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Ligurian: beschéutto — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Lithuanian: sausainis — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Lithuanian: biskvitas — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Macedonian: колач (kolač) — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Macedonian: кекс (keks) — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Macedonian: бискви́т (biskvít) — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Macedonian: гурабија (gurabija) — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Malay: kuih — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Malayalam: ബിസ്കറ്റ് (biskaṟṟŭ) — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Maltese: gallettina — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Mongolian: жигнэмэг (žignemeg) — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Mongolian: печень (pečenʹ) — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Mongolian: ᠵᠢᠩᠨᠡᠮᠡᠭ (ǰingnemeg) — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Mongolian: ᠫᠧᠴᠧᠨᠢ (pēčēni) — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Navajo: bááh łikaní — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Neapolitan: vascuotto — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Norwegian Bokmål: småkake — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Iranian Persian: کُلوچِه (koluče) — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Iranian Persian: بیسْکوئیت (bisku'it) — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Iranian Persian: کاک (kâk) — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Iranian Persian: کوکِه (kuke) — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Polish: ciastko — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Polish: ciasteczko — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Polish: herbatnik — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Portuguese: biscoito — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Portuguese: bolacha — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Romanian: biscuit — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Russian: пече́нье (pečénʹje) — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Scottish Gaelic: briosgaid — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Serbo-Croatian: бѝсквӣт — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Serbo-Croatian: ке̏кс — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Serbo-Croatian: bìskvīt — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Serbo-Croatian: kȅks — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Slovak: sušienka — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Slovene: piškot — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Spanish: galleta — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Swahili: biskuti — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Swedish: kaka — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Swedish: småkaka — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Tagalog: kuki — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Tajik: кулчақанд (kulčaqand) — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Tajik: печен'е (pečen'ye) — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Telugu: కుకీ (kukī) — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Thai: คุกกี้ (kúk-gîi) — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Thai: ขนมกินเล่น — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Thai: บิสกิต (bís-gìt) — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Thai: ขนมปัง (kà-nǒm-bpang) — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Tibetan: ཁ་ཟས (kha zas) — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Turkish: kurabiye — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Ottoman Turkish: قرابیه (kurabiye) — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Turkmen: köke — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Turkmen: peçenýa — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Ukrainian: пе́чиво (péčyvo) — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Urdu: کُوکی (kūkī) — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Urdu: بِسْکِٹ (biskiṭ) — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Urdu: بِسْکُٹ (biskuṭ) — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Uyghur: پېچىنە (pëchine) — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Uzbek: pechenʼye — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Uzbek: pechenye — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Vietnamese: bánh quy — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Vietnamese: bích quy — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Vietnamese: bánh bích quy — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Walloon: biscûte — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Yao (Africa): okra — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Yiddish: קיכל (kikhl) — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Yuwana: ukrea — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Zuni: mulochikwa — small, flat baked good — see also biscuit
  • Afrikaans: koekie — sweet baked good (as in the previous sense) which has chocolate chips, fruit, nuts etc. baked into it
  • Catalan: coca — sweet baked good (as in the previous sense) which has chocolate chips, fruit, nuts etc. baked into it
  • Catalan: galeta — sweet baked good (as in the previous sense) which has chocolate chips, fruit, nuts etc. baked into it
  • Esperanto: kuketo — sweet baked good (as in the previous sense) which has chocolate chips, fruit, nuts etc. baked into it
  • Esperanto: biskvito — sweet baked good (as in the previous sense) which has chocolate chips, fruit, nuts etc. baked into it
  • Finnish: keksi — sweet baked good (as in the previous sense) which has chocolate chips, fruit, nuts etc. baked into it
  • Finnish: pikkuleipä — sweet baked good (as in the previous sense) which has chocolate chips, fruit, nuts etc. baked into it
  • French: cookie — sweet baked good (as in the previous sense) which has chocolate chips, fruit, nuts etc. baked into it
  • French: biscuit — sweet baked good (as in the previous sense) which has chocolate chips, fruit, nuts etc. baked into it
  • German: Cookie — sweet baked good (as in the previous sense) which has chocolate chips, fruit, nuts etc. baked into it
  • Indonesian: kukis — sweet baked good (as in the previous sense) which has chocolate chips, fruit, nuts etc. baked into it
  • Javanese: kukis — sweet baked good (as in the previous sense) which has chocolate chips, fruit, nuts etc. baked into it
  • Turkish: kurabiye — sweet baked good (as in the previous sense) which has chocolate chips, fruit, nuts etc. baked into it
  • Afrikaans: koekie — young, attractive woman
  • Finnish: bööna — young, attractive woman
  • French: poupée — young, attractive woman
  • Spanish: bombón — young, attractive woman
  • Spanish: muñeca — young, attractive woman
  • Afrikaans: koekie — slang: female genitalia
  • Finnish: pipari — slang: female genitalia
  • French: moule — slang: female genitalia
  • French: chatte — slang: female genitalia
  • French: motte — slang: female genitalia
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