cookie sheet

noun

See under cookie(def 1).

Origin of cookie sheet

First recorded in 1925–30

Words nearby cookie sheet

cookhouse, cookie, cookie cutter, cookie jar, cookie press, cookie sheet, cookie-cutter, cooking, cookoff, cookout, cookshack

Definition for cookie sheet (2 of 2)

cookie
[ koo k-ee ]
/ ˈkʊk i /

noun

a small cake made from stiff, sweet dough rolled and sliced or dropped by spoonfuls on a large, flat pan (cookie sheet) and baked.
Informal. dear; sweetheart (a term of address, usually connoting affection).
Slang.
  1. a person: a smart cookie; a tough cookie.
  2. an alluring young woman.
Computers. a message, or segment of data, containing information about a user, sent by a web server to a browser and sent back to the server each time the browser requests a web page.
South Atlantic States (chiefly North Carolina ). a doughnut.
Scot. a bun.
Sometimes cook·y.

Origin of cookie

1695–1705; < Dutch koekie, dialectal variant of koekje, equivalent to koek cake + -je diminutive suffix

British Dictionary definitions for cookie sheet

cookie

cooky

/ (ˈkʊkɪ) /

noun plural -ies

US and Canadian a small flat dry sweet or plain cake of many varieties, baked from a dough Also called (in Britain and certain other countries): biscuit
a Scot word for bun
informal a person smart cookie
computing a piece of data downloaded to a computer by a website, containing details of the preferences of that computer's user which identify the user when revisiting that website
that's the way the cookie crumbles informal matters are inevitably or unalterably so

Word Origin for cookie

C18: from Dutch koekje, diminutive of koek cake

Scientific definitions for cookie sheet

cookie
[ kuk′ē ]

A collection of information, usually including a username and the current date and time, stored on the local computer of a person using the World Wide Web, used chiefly by websites to identify users who have previously registered or visited the site. Cookies are used to relate one computer transaction to a later one.

Idioms and Phrases with cookie sheet

cookie

see hand in the till (cookie jar); that's how the ball bounces (cookie crumbles); toss one's cookies.