English
cookie
Cookie may come from Dutch koekje.
- Dutchc. 1500–presentkoekjeas koekieuncertain
- Englishearliest quotation 1968cookie
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Dutchc. 1500–presentkoekjeas koekieuncertain
- Englishearliest quotation 1968cookie
Earliest quotation: 1968, Gershon Legman, Rationale of the Dirty Joke: “a little girl was eating a cookie and spitting.…”
The story
Not related to English cook. The computing senses derive from magic cookie.
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *gag-
Today it means
noun A small, flat, baked good which is either crisp or soft but firm.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Dutch koekje / cookie