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First published 1952 (SND Vol. III). Includes material from the 1976 and 2005 supplements.
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COOKIE, COOKY, Cu(c)kie, n. [′kuki]

1. A plain round bun, without fruit or spice. If iced or containing fruit, always with descriptive epithet. Never used in Sc. for the small “flat sweet cake” of American usage. Gen.Sc. Sc. 1701 Account Bk. Sir J. Foulis (S.H.S. 1894):
Dec^r 3: for seck and a cuckie w^t y^e tuo alex^r Gibsones . . . 0.10.8. [Also spelt cukie, 11 May (1703).]n.Sc. c.1730 E. Burt Letters North Scot. (1754) II. 279:
In the Low Country the Cakes are called Cookies, and the several Species of them . . . are distinguished by the names of the reigning Toasts, or the good Housewife, who was the Inventor; as for Example; Lady Cullen's Cookies.Ags. [1855] A. Douglas Hist. of Ferryden (1857) 97:
And among other good things there were to be 12 “currant cookies.”Peb. 1929 R. M. Williamson in Sc. Readings, etc. (ed. T. W. Paterson) 85:
I want a plain ham-and-egg tea . . . and some cookies and cakes.Ayr. 1822 Galt Sir A. Wylie I. xii.:
I'll thank you to get me a mutchkin of strong yill and a cooky. In phr. to tak' the cookie, = colloq. Eng. to take the bun (cake). Known to Lnl.¹ 1937.Lnk. 1926 W. Queen We're a' Coortin 70–71:
Readin' post-cairds an' post-marks, faither. An' gettin' angry, whiles, because ye canna read letters — the same as ye haud ony richt tae read ither folk's letters. Faither, ye fairly tak' the cookie.Lnk. 1997 Duncan Glen Seventeen Poems 7:
Cream cookies; braw sugar-tapped
Yins wi the cream oozed oot
For lickin.
And biscuits to feenish:
Perkins, bannocks, mebbe, ...

Comb.: cookie-shine, a tea party. Gen.Sc.Ags. 1853 A. Jervise Nell Lowe (1940) 10:
A Cookie Shine was held yestreen (The place we winna say).Per. 1830 Perthshire Adv. (18 March):
Red herrings sported at cookie shines.Edb. 1931 E. Albert Herrin' Jennie 309:
A gorgeous cookie-shine where everybody gorged and clattered.Lnk. 1902 A. Wardrop Hamely Sk. 115:
The great Co-operative Cookyshine.

Phr.: awa an kiss ma cookie!, kiss my arse!Sc. 2003 Scotland on Sunday 21 Sep 6:
He [Gordon Ramsay] laughs exasperatedly. "Oh, kiss my cookie!"Edb. 1995:
Awa an kiss ma cookie! Ah'm no washin yer shirts.Gsw. 1962 Bill McGhee Cut and Run 71:
Away an kiss ma cookie!

2. Transf. A prostitute, a "tart" (Gsw. 1934 E. Partridge Slang Dict.; Fif., wm.Sc. 1975).