The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Cookey \Cook"ey\, Cookie \Cook"ie\, n.
   See Cooky.
   [1913 Webster]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

cookie
    n 1: any of various small flat sweet cakes (`biscuit' is the
         British term) [syn: cookie, cooky, biscuit]
    2: the cook on a ranch or at a camp [syn: cookie, cooky]
    3: a short line of text that a web site puts on your computer's
       hard drive when you access the web site

The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003):

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 Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):

cookie
cooky

   1.  HTTP cookie.

   2.  A handle, transaction ID, or other token of
   agreement between cooperating programs.  "I give him a packet,
   he gives me back a cookie".

   The ticket you get from a dry-cleaning shop is an 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).

   Compare magic cookie; see also fortune cookie.

   3.  A cracker term for the password list
   on a multi-user computer.

   4.  An adjective describing a computer that just
   became toast.

   (1997-04-14)