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Definition: Cooky |
CookyNoun1. The cook on a ranch or at a camp. 2. Any of various small flat sweet cakes (`biscuit' is the British term). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "cooky" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1904. (references) |
Etymology: Cooky \Cook"y\, noun; plural Cookies. [Compare to Dutch koek cake, diminutive koekje; akin to German kuchen, English cake; or compare to Old English coket, prob., a sort of cake, and probably of French origin.]. (references) |
"Cooky" is a common misspelling or typo for: cocky, cook, cookie, cooks, corky, kooky. |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Cooky cookie. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
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Synonyms: CookySynonyms: biscuit (n), cookie (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
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. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Cooky |
| English words defined with "cooky": Cookies. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Cooky 'Plays It Cool' (1967) | |
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| Domain | Title |
Books | |
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| "Cooky" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "Cooky" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 66.67% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (proper) | 33.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 3 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "cooky": cooky jar. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
cooky | 16 |
cooky jar | 3 |
cooky recipe | 2 |
cooky cutter | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "cooky"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | kuzhiniere, bukuroshe (babe, beauty, Belle, doll, lovely, peach, Peri, pinup, tootsy). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | курабийка, готвачка (cook). (various references) | |
Czech | kuchařka (cook, cookbook, cookery book). (various references) | |
Farsi | کلوچه(cookie), شیرینی خشک (Cookie), شیرینی (Amiability, Bonbon, Confection, Confetti, Cookie, Goody, Pastry, Sugar), بیسکویت (Biscuit, Cookie). (various references) | |
German | Köchin (cook, female cook). (various references) | |
Greek | κουλουράκι (cookie). (various references) | |
Hungarian | apró édessütemény. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | ギルド社会主義 (cookie, coup, coup d'etat, coupe, coupon, gingham, guild socialism, guillotine). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | クーキー (cookie). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ookycay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | cozinheira (cook, female cook). (various references) | |
Romanian | bucãtãreasã (cook), biscuit (biscuit, hardtack, rusk). (various references) | |
Russian | кухарка (cook), домашнее печенье (cookie). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | kolačić (cookie). (various references) | |
Spanish | moza simpática. (various references) | |
Swedish | småkaka (cookie, snap), slät bulle (cookie). (various references) | |
Thai | ุคุกกี้. (various references) | |
Turkish | kurabiye (biscuit, cookie, shortbread, shortcake), bisküvi (biscuit, cookie, cracker), bebek (babe, baby, Bebek, cookie, doll, Dolly, infant, infantile, puppet), adam (bean, bird, bozo, Buster, chap, cookie, cuss, Dick, dog, employee, feller, fellow, fellow man, guy, Jack, joker, man, person), çekici kadın (cookie, killer). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | домашн" печиво (cookie). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | chị nuôi, chị cấp dưỡng. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-k-o-o-y" | |
-1 letter: cook, yock. | |
-2 letters: coo, coy, yok. | |
-3 letters: oy, yo. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-k-o-o-y" | |
+1 letter: cookey. | |
+2 letters: cookery, cookeys. | |
+3 letters: copybook, crookery. | |
+4 letters: copybooks, crookedly, doohickey, hollyhock, poppycock. | |
+5 letters: backwoodsy, doohickeys, hollyhocks, karyologic, poppycocks. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Anagrams 11. Bibliography |
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