cookie

Yummy sweet thing that you can eat. From the Dutch word koekje, which is a little 'cake'. In Dutch we have a very nice saying 'giving someone a Koekje van eigen deeg' (Just heard a very nice American saying 'the way the cookie crumbles'). Sometimes used to refer to an attractive woman or someones personality (a though cookie).

Also a small amount of data hidden in the HTTP header that gets entered into the Magic cookie file of your web browser.

Go back to theatre lighting terminology

A flat board, like a flag, but full of irregular holes used for creating a pattern of shadows when put in front of a light. Also called a gobo or a coocoloris.

Glossary of Film Terms - http://homepage.newschool.edu/~schlemoj/film_courses/glossary_of_film_terms/
reprinted with permission

i heard from an environmental science student the other day that this term can also refer to a cross-section of a tree trunk. when studying the effect of a recent ice storm on forest growth/regrowth, his job was to cut big old slices of tree for further analysis. the slices are called cookies.

cookie n.

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). Syn. magic cookie; see also fortune cookie. Now mainstream in the specific sense of web-browser cookies.

--The Jargon File version 4.3.1, ed. ESR, autonoded by rescdsk.

Cook"ey, Cook"ie (?), n.

See Cooky.

© Webster 1913.