a small, flat, sweet baked treat, often containing chocolate chips, nuts, or other flavorings
After dinner, Mia baked a batch of chocolate-chip cookies for her friends.
The child smiled when his mother handed him a warm cookie straight from the oven.
✦ From Dutch “koekje”, diminutive of “koek” meaning “cake”, brought to America by Dutch settlers in the 17th century.
in computing, a small piece of data that a website stores on a user’s device to remember information about them
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✦ Metaphorically extended from the edible cookie—just as a cookie is a small treat saved for later, a web cookie is a small piece of data saved for later use. First recorded in the 1990s.
