Other forms: cookies
A cookie is a small flat sweet thing you bake — the American word for what Britain calls a biscuit. Chocolate chips, soft in the middle, eaten off a plate with a glass of milk.
In Britain the word has settled on the soft chewy kind, while the snappy ones stay biscuits, so a shop can sell both without anybody getting confused. The other cookie is the small file a website leaves in your browser so it remembers you next time — hence the banner asking you to accept cookies. People get called cookies too: a tough cookie is hard to upset, a smart cookie is quick-thinking. Note the two Os in the spelling, and note that the plural cookies covers the baked ones and the browser ones alike.
Shares are an estimate: a language model read 15 sentences found in the wild and placed 15 of them on a sense — a count of our sample, not a measurement of English.
cookie is a small baked sweet.
Also accepted in games: biscuit
Cookie is a Dutch import: koekie, the little form of koek, cake, from the same old Germanic word as English cake. It has nothing to do with cook, whatever the spelling suggests. The computing sense came in by a completely different door — from magic cookie, a small piece of data handed back and forth between programs.
Dutch
koekje
English, today
cookie
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Borrowed from Dutch koekje. 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 cook. The computing senses derive from magic cookie.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA