The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.
COOKY
cookie, cooky, biscuit
(noun) any of various small flat sweet cakes (‘biscuit’ is the British term)
cookie, cooky
(noun) the cook on a ranch or at a camp
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Noun
cooky (plural cookies)
Dated spelling of cookie.
Etymology 2
Adjective
cooky
Misspelling of kooky.
Source: Wiktionary
Cook"y, n.; pl. Cookies. Etym: [Cf. D. koek cake, dim. koekje; akin to G. kuchen, E. cake; or cf. OE. coket, prob., a sort of cake, and prob. of French origin.]
Definition: A small, flat, sweetened cake of various kinds.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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