Cookie

Definition: Cookie

Cookie

Noun

1. Any of various small flat sweet cakes (`biscuit' is the British term).

2. The cook on a ranch or at a camp.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "cookie" was first used: 1703. (references)

Computing

Biology & Biotechnology

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Cookie

Eventuality

Phrase: that's the way the ball bounces, that's the way the cookie crumbles; you never know what may turn up, you never know what the future will bring; the plot thickens; "breasts the blows of circumstance"; "so runs round of life from hour to hour" "sprinkled along the waste of years".

Food

Beef, bisquit, bun; cornstarch; cookie, cooky; cracker, doughnut; fatling; hardtack, hoecake, hominy; mutton, pilot bread; pork; roti, rusk, ship biscuit; veal; joint, piece de resistance, roast and boiled; remove, entremet; releve, hash, rechauffe, stew, ragout, fricassee, mince; pottage, potage, broth, soup, consomme, puree, spoonmeat; pie, pasty, volauvent; pudding, omelet; pastry; sweets; kickshaws; condiment.

Guilt

Adverb: in flagrante delicto; red-handed, in the very act, with one's hand in the cookie jar.

Crosswords: Cookie

Portuguese (cookie).

A guy who came to Fight Club for the first time, his ass was a wad of cookie dough (Fight Club; writing credit: Jim Uhls)

You see, Elaine, the key to eating a black and white cookie is that you wanna get some black and some white in each bite (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt)

Then we ate cookie dough, and talked about boys (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

Just between you and me, Roy, I'll do anything for a sugar cookie. (Wings; writing credit: Ere Kokkonen)

I wouldn't want to take a bite outta you. You're a cookie filled with arsenic (Sweet Smell of Success; writing credit: Ernest Lehman; Clifford Odets)

When I'm on the mic, it's like a cookie, they all crumble (Nuthin But A "G" Thang; performing artist: Dr. Dre)

Want to eat you like a cookie when I see you walk (Around the Way Girl; performing artist: L.L. Cool J)

Well you're the real tough cookie with the long history (HIT ME WITH YOUR BEST SHOT; performing artist: Pat Benatar)

Friends are chocolate chips in the cookie of life! (references; author: unknown)

Life lesson: Take out the fortune before you eat the cookie. (references; author: unknown)

Cookie pieces contain no calories. The process of breaking causes calorie leakage. (references; author: unknown)

The Fortune Cookie (1966)

A Rookie's Cookie (1943)

Here Comes Cookie (1935)

The Cookie Carnival (1935)

Tough Cookie (2002)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Mrs. Fields Best Cookie Book Ever!: 130 Delicious Cookie and Dessert Recipes from the Kitchen of Mrs. Fields (reference)

• Raggedy Ann in Cookie Land (reference)

• The Best Mouse Cookie (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Sesame Street - Cookie Monster's Best Bites (reference)

• The Fortune Cookie (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• C is for Cookie (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Yoshi's Cookie (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Calphalon Commercial Bakeware Collector's Edition Large Cookie Sheets, Set of 2 (reference)

• Cookie Sheet (16 x 12") (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

(1) color slide shows a single chocolate chip cookie. Credit: Renee Comet (photographer).

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Health

A trephine, an instrument like a cookie cutter, is used to remove the cloudy cornea. (references)

In corneal transplant surgery, the surgeon removes the central portion of the cloudy cornea and replaces it with a clear cornea, usually donated through an eye bank. A trephine, an instrument like a cookie cutter, is used to remove the cloudy cornea. (references)

Since foods of animal origin may be contaminated with Salmonella, people should not eat raw or undercooked eggs, poultry, or meat. Raw eggs may be unrecognized in some foods such as homemade hollandaise sauce, caesar and other salad dressings, tiramisu, homemade ice cream, homemade mayonnaise, cookie dough, and frostings. (references)

Economic History

Chad

There are several small bakeries, a cookie factory, a yogurt maker and very little else. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "cookie": almond cookie ♦ anise cookie ♦ butter cookie ♦ chocolate chip cookie ♦ cookie bear ♦ cookie cutter ♦ cookie file ♦ cookie jar ♦ cookie monster ♦ fortune cookie ♦ HTTP cookie ♦ magic cookie ♦ molasses cookie ♦ oatmeal cookie ♦ oreo cookie ♦ raisin cookie ♦ refrigerator cookie ♦ shortbread cookie ♦ spice cookie ♦ sugar cookie ♦ that's the way the cookie crumbles ♦ toll House cookie ♦ with one's hand in the cookie jar. Additional references.

Beginning with "cookie": cookie-cutter, cookie-making.

Albanian

biskotë (biscuit, bisque, gateau, sponge cake), biskota (biscuit), ëmbëlsirë (confection, pudding, sinker). (various references)

Arabic 

‏كعكة صغيرة, ‏بنت حلوة. (various references)

Asturian

galleta. (various references)

Bulgarian 

хубава жена, бисквита. (various references)

Catalan

galeta (biscuit). (various references)

Cebuano

biskwit. (various references)

Chamorro

guyuria. (various references)

Chinese 

餅乾 (biscuit, cracker), 餅 (cake, pastry, round flat cake), 曲奇饼 (Cookies). (various references)

Czech

sušenka (biscuit, cracker, shortbread), koláèek, keks (biscuit, cracker), èajové peèivo (cookies, sally lunn, tea cake, tea-biscuit). (various references)

Danish

kiks (biscuit). (various references)

Dutch

koekje (cupcake), biscuit (biscuit). (various references)

Esperanto

biskvito (biscuit). (various references)

Faeroese

smákaka. (various references)

Farsi 

کلوچه(cooky), شیرینی خشک (Cooky), شیرینی (Amiability, Bonbon, Confection, Confetti, Cooky, Goody, Pastry, Sugar), بیسکویت (Biscuit, Cooky). (various references)

Finnish

keksivehnäjauho (biscuit flour, cookie flour), keksijauho (biscuit flour, cookie flour). (various references)

French

cookie, section transversale, section de tronc, rondelle, petit gâteau, jolie fille, galette (coil, coke), gâteau, disque (concave disc), biscuit. (various references)

Frisian

koekje. (various references)

German

keks (biscuit, cracker). (various references)

Greek 

κουλουράκι (cooky), μπισκότο (biscuit, cracker). (various references)

Hawaiian

biskota (biscuit). (various references)

Hebrew 

עו�'י�" (biscuit, crumpet, snap). (various references)

Hungarian

keksz (biscuit, cracker, cracknel). (various references)

Indonesian

beskit. (various references)

Italian

biscotto (bicuit, biscuit, bisque, cracker, rusk). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

ギルド社会主義 (cooky, coup, coup d'etat, coupe, coupon, gingham, guild socialism, guillotine), クーロン力 (car horn, Chrysler, Clark, classic, classic car, classic life, classic races, classical, classicism, clerk, client, client server, climax, climber, climbing, climograph, cloud, collider, cook, cooking, cooking card, cooking school, Coulomb's force, coutouriere, couturier, crime story, crisis, criteria, crouching start, crown, cryoelectronics, cryogenics, cumin, cushion, cushion ball, Klaxon, Kuwait, large size, multi-purpose health facility, pitcher throwing to first base, quake, Quaker, quality, quality paper, quantity, quantize, quark, quarter, quarterback, quarterly, quartet, quartz, quasar, queen, queen size, Queen's English, Queensland, question, question mark, quick, quick motion, quick step, quick turn, quilter, quintet, quinto, quiz, quiz mania, quiz rally, quota, quotation mark, quote, Society of Friends, the Queen Mary). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

クッキー , クーキー (cooky). (various references)

Korean 

과자 (Cookies). (various references)

Macedonian

biskvit. (various references)

Maori

piihikete. (various references)

Norwegian

kjeks (biscuit, cornet). (various references)

Pig Latin

ookiecay.(various references)

Portuguese

cookie, seçao transversal (cross section, cross-section, disc, disk, stem disc, transverse section), seçao de um tronco (cross section, cross-section, disc, disk, stem disc, transverse section), bolo (cake, pellet, stake), biscoito (biscuit, shortcake). (various references)

Provencal

coqueta. (various references)

Russian 

булочка (bap, brioche, bun, popover, roll), печенье (biscuit, cracker, pastry). (various references)

Scottish

briosgaid (a biscuit, biscuit). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

kolačić (cooky). (various references)

Spanish

galleta (biscuit, cracker, sea biscuit, wafer), bizcocho (bicuit, biscuit, bisque, cake, parkin, sponge). (various references)

Swahili

biskuti (biscuit). (various references)

Swedish

småkaka (cooky, snap), slät bulle (cooky), liten kaka, kaka (biscuit, cake, pastry, slab). (various references)

Tagalog

biskuwit (biscuit). (various references)

Thai

บุคคล (ที่มีลักษ�"ะเฉพาะ), คุกกี้. (various references)

Turkish

kurabiye (biscuit, cooky, shortbread, shortcake), bisküvi (biscuit, cooky, cracker), biri (any, one, somebody, someone), bebek (babe, baby, Bebek, cooky, doll, Dolly, infant, infantile, puppet), bísküví (biscuit), adam (bean, bird, bozo, Buster, chap, cooky, cuss, Dick, dog, employee, feller, fellow, fellow man, guy, Jack, joker, man, person), çekici kadın (cooky, killer), çörek (biscuit, bun, cake, tea bread, tea cake, tuck). (various references)

Turkmen 

peзenяa (r), kцke (biscut). (various references)

Ukrainian

домашн�" печиво (cooky). (various references)

Vietnamese 

bánh quy. (various references)

Welsh

bisged (biscuit). (various references)

crustula, crustulum. (various references)

koekje. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "cookie": cookies. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Cookie" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cakie, camogie, choochie, chookie, Clootie, cockie, coiii, coki, Cokie, cokkie, cokle, comorien, Coobie, Coochie, coockie, Coogee, cooke, cooki, cookii, Cooklin, cooky, coomi, coueite, coxii, crookie, crooky, Cuiken, Kokine, Kokodia, Kokolia, Kookie, Kooskia, lookie, Okie, ookle, ooky, Pookie, Shotokai, Toukie. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: coke, cook.

-3 letters: coo, ice, ick, koi, oke.

-4 letters: oe.

+1 letter: cookies.

+2 letters: booklice.

+3 letters: cookeries, doohickey, miscooked, recooking.

+4 letters: bootlicked, bootlicker, crookeries, doohickeys, doohickies, precooking.

+5 letters: bootlickers, cartoonlike, forelocking, kilocalorie, kinetochore, kinetoscope, nickelodeon, optokinetic, overcooking.