Hypertext Webster Gateway: "cookies"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Cooky \Cook"y\, n.; pl. {Cookies}. [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.]
A small, flat, sweetened cake of various kinds.
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