When you hear 'cookie' are you hearing English or Dutch?

'Cookie' is a word borrowed from Dutch 'koekje'. The word entered the English language some time around 1703.

cookie [noun] [1703]

• a small flat or slightly raised cake
• an attractive woman
• person
• a small file or part of a file stored on a World Wide Web user's computer, created and subsequently read by a Web site ...

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Etymology: Dutch 'koekje' diminutive of 'koek' cake

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