cookie

The word “cookie” means (chiefly US) A small, flat, sweet baked treat. In plain terms, either the sweet baked snack (American English; British English usually says "biscuit") or the small tracking file websites save in your browser.

“Cookie” is pronounced KUU-kee (/ˈkʊki/ in IPA).

Here is “cookie” used in a sentence: “He grabbed a chocolate chip cookie from the jar.”

“Cookie” is a noun.

The word “cookie” comes from Dutch.

“Cookie” is a fairly common word in modern English, usually learned at around the A1 level.

“Cookie” has 2 distinct senses listed in this dictionary. The most common is: (chiefly US) A small, flat, sweet baked treat.

In American English, a cookie is any small, flat, sweet baked treat, while a biscuit is a soft, savoury bread roll. In British English, biscuit covers most of what Americans call cookies, and cookie tends to mean a larger, softer style, often with chocolate chips. The same baked item can therefore carry a different name on each side of the Atlantic.

In computing, a cookie is a small piece of data a website stores on your device so it can remember information between visits, such as your login, language, or basket contents. Essential cookies keep sites functioning, while others track browsing for analytics or advertising, which is why many sites let you accept only the essential ones.

The web sense is generally traced to "magic cookie", an older computing term for a small token of data passed between programs. Web cookies work the same way — a site hands your browser a small piece of data and reads it back later — so the existing name carried over.