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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Word of the Day

22 February 2025

ANALYSIS

(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., ‘the father of the bride’ instead of ‘the bride’s father’


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Coffee Trivia

There are more than 50 countries that export coffee. They are near the equator, where the climate is conducive to producing coffee beans.

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