cookie jar

English

Noun

cookie jar (plural cookie jars)

1. A vessel for storing cookies or other food.

   I'll just put these cookies in the cookie jar and I'll be right out.

2. (Internet) The storage space for browser cookies.
   • 2003, Bob Toxen, Real World Linux Security, page 265:

     Everyone should review what cookies are stored in their Netscape cookie jar. It is a text file […]

Derived terms

• caught with one's hand in the cookie jar
• cookie-jar accounting
• cookie-jar reserve

Translations

a vessel for storing food

• Dutch: koekjestrommel (nl)
• Estonian: küpsisepurk
• Finnish: keksipurkki, piparipurkki
• Greek: μπισκοτιέρα f (biskotiéra)
• Italian: biscottiera f
• Navajo: bááh łikaní biłeetsʼaʼ, bááh łikaní beʼésaʼ, ásaaʼ bááh dáʼákaʼí łikanígíí biih nájihí
• Swedish: kakburk (sv) c
• Yiddish: קיכלניצע f (kikhlnitse)