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Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. noun any of various small flat sweet cakes (`biscuit' is the British term)
  2. noun the cook on a ranch or at a camp
  3. noun a short line of text that a web site puts on your computer's hard drive when you access the web site

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.

In classic literature

Synonyms

cooky, biscuit

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