cookie, noun
- Origin:
- DutchShow more Adaptation of Dutch koekje little cake; cf. Scottish and U.S. English cookie.
?obsolete
A flat cake or bread roll baked in hot embers on an open fire, or on a grid-iron over a fire. Cf. askoek sense 1, roosterkoek sense a. See also koekie sense 1.
- Note:
- Now more commonly used in the general English sense of ‘biscuit’.
1913 C. Pettman Africanderisms 129Cookies, (D. koek, a cake, gingerbread.) A common name applied to comestibles as varied as the lightest and sweetest production of the professional pastry-cook and the dough cake roasted on the coals of a wood fire at the wayside outspan.
A flat cake or bread roll baked in hot embers on an open fire, or on a grid-iron over a fire.
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