cookie

n. small sweet cake which is baked on flat pans (also cooky, cookey); (Computers) file planted on a user's hard disk by an Internet site (contains personal information about the user and is used to develop target audiences for Internet advertising); cook on a ranch, cook at a camp; (Slang) person of a specified nature (e.g. "She is a smart cookie"; "Tom is a tough cookie")

In the United States and Canada, a cookie (or cooky) is a small, round, flat cake. In most English-speaking countries outside North America, the most common word for this is biscuit; in many regions both terms are used, while in others the two words have different meanings—a cookie is a plain bun in Scotland, while in the United States a biscuit is a kind of quick bread not unlike a scone.
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Noun
1. any of various small flat sweet cakes (`biscuit' is the British term)
(synonym) cooky, biscuit
(hypernym) cake
(hyponym) teacake, tea biscuit
(classification) United Kingdom, UK, Great Britain, GB, Britain, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
2. the cook on a ranch or at a camp
(synonym) cooky
(hypernym) cook
3. a short line of text that a web site puts on your computer's hard drive when you access the web site
(hypernym) text, textual matter
(hyponym) session cookie

n. cookie, small sweet cake which is baked on flat pans (also cooky); file planted on a user's hard disk by an Internet site (contains personal information about the user and targets Internet advertising)

n. cookie, file planted on a user's hard disk by an Internet site, (contains personal information about the user and is used to develop target audiences for Internet advertising) (Computers); small sweet cake which is baked on flat pans