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   Cook·ie

   /ˈko͝okē/

   

   noun

   • 1. a small sweet cake, typically round and flat and having a crisp or chewy texture: North American "freshly baked cookies"
   • 2. a person of a specified kind: informal "a tough cookie with one eye on her bank account"
   • 3. 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.

   Word Origin early 18th century: from Dutch koekje ‘little cake’, diminutive of koek.

   Scrabble Points: 12

   • C

     3

   • O

     1

   • O

     1

   • K

     5

   • I

     1

   • E

     1

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