Cookie
/ˈkʊk.i/noun
A small, sweet baked food, typically crisp or soft and containing ingredients such as chocolate, nuts, or spices.
Did you know?In American English, cookie later became a metaphor for a person, and computer cookies were named after the idea of a small packet of information passed back and forth.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Germanic
Proto-Germanic
*kokō
“A cake or baked mass; a reconstructed ancestor associated with Germanic cake words.”
Middle Dutch
Middle Dutch
coeke
“Cake or small baked cake.”
17th Century
Dutch
koekje
“Little cake, formed with the diminutive suffix -je.”
Late 17th Century
American English
cookie
“An English adoption of Dutch koekje, especially associated with Dutch-speaking settlers in New Netherland.”
18th Century–Present
English
cookie
“A small sweet cake or biscuit; later, figuratively, a person or a small stored computer data file.”