cookie
noun
[ ˈkʊki ]
• a sweet biscuit having a fairly soft, chewy texture and typically containing pieces of chocolate or fruit.
• "chocolate chip cookies"
• a person of a specified kind.
• "she's a tough cookie"
• a packet of data sent by a web server to a browser, which is returned by the browser each time it subsequently accesses the same server, used to identify the user or track their access to the server.
• a plain bun.
Origin:
early 18th century: from Dutch koekje ‘little cake’, diminutive of koek .
