Is the word Cookie an American or English word? Thanks.?

Question

Like you get some peopole saying i am baking some cookies.

Thanks.

Answer 1

The difference is that Americans refer to anything remotely biscuit like as a cookie, where as to most British people a cookie has chocolate chips in it.

Answer 2

Cookie is American:

1703, Amer.Eng., from Du. koekje "little cake," dim. of koek "cake," from M.Du. koke (see cake). Slang application to persons attested since 1920. Phrase that's the way the cookie crumbles "that's the way things happen" is from 1957.

The British synonym is biscuit.

Answer 3

idk im guessing neither?

Answer 4

I thought Americans spoke English.  

Answer 5

Whilst cookie is, as some have remarked, a word derived from a Dutch original, and is generally used to mean some sort of biscuit, after the American usage, it's less generally known that the word "cookie" has also been in use for a long time in Britain to describe a kind of cake, the "cream cookie", which is a brioche-like bun with a partial diagonal slice cut through it, filled with cream, and with icing sugar dusted on top.

Far more wickedly delicious than any biscuit-based cookie!

Answer 6

Invented by Americans and arrived in Britain in the 60s to describe a certain kind of biscuit which had chocolate bits in them (roughly equivalent to chocolate chip cookies).

Answer 7

It comes from the Dutch word for biscuit/cookie/whatever.