Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Cookey \Cook"ey\, Cookie \Cook"ie\, n.
See {Cooky}.
Source : WordNet®
cookie
n 1: any of various small flat sweet cakes (`biscuit' is the
British term) [syn: {cooky}, {biscuit}]
2: the cook on a ranch or at a camp [syn: {cooky}]
3: a short line of text that a web site puts on your computer's
hard drive when you access the web site
Source : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing
cookie
1. A handle, transaction ID, or other token of
agreement between cooperating programs. "I give him a packet,
he gives me back a cookie".
The claim check you get from a dry-cleaning shop is a perfect
mundane example of a cookie; the only thing it's useful for is
to relate a later transaction to this one (so you get the same
clothes back).
Another example is an {HTTP cookie}.
Compare {magic cookie}; see also {fortune cookie}.
2. A {cracker} term for the {password} list
on a {multi-user} computer.
3. An adjective describing a computer that just
became {toast}.
(1997-04-14)