Etymology 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 English cook. The computing senses derive from magic cookie.
a little girl was eating a cookie and spitting. “Do you have hair on your cookie?” “Don't be silly. I'm only eleven.”1968, Gershon Legman, quoting anonymous informant from New York, 1953, Rationale of the Dirty Joke, page 100:
Her legs hung over the edge and the large towel covered just enough of her lap to hide her 'cookie'.2009, T. R. Oulds, Story of Many Secret Night, Lulu.com, published 2010, →ISBN:
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If she wanted to compete in this dog-eat-pussy world, she had to keep up her personal grooming, even if it meant spreading her legs and letting some Vietnamese woman rip the hair off her cookie every other week.2010, Lennie Ross, Blow me, Lulu.com, published 2010, →ISBN, page 47:
Cookie put his butt to sleep, now he callin' me Nyquil.2014, Nicki Minaj, "Anaconda" (Clean Version), The Pinkprint
Etymology 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 English cook. The computing senses derive from magic cookie.
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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences To send a cookie to (a user, computer, etc.).
We have already discussed the benefits — even the necessity — of cookieing visitors so that we can track their return visits to our Website.2000, Ralph Kimball, Richard Merz, The Data Webhouse Toolkit: Building the Web-Enabled Data Warehouse:
At Oracle, they cookie you before and after you register.2002, Jim Sterne, Web Metrics: Proven Methods for Measuring Web Site Success:
More than a little apprehensive myself, I went out to the kitchen. Cookie, deep in a murder story, rocked peacefully beside the glowing range.1954, Blackwood's Magazine, volumes 275-276, page 340:
"You must show cookie here how grateful you are for all the trouble she's taken." The boy didn't move. "Go on, get on with it," the Trunchbull said. "Cut a slice and taste it. We haven't got all day."1988, Roald Dahl, Matilda: