when did the word cookie first appear in the english dictionary?

Answer 1

Go to the library

Find an edition of The Oxford Enflish Dictionary (the dictionary takes up several books).

Look up the word "Cookie."

It will tell you the origins. It will also tell you the earliest date that it is seen in print.

As for when it first appeared in a dictionary -- I suspect it was in the first ever dictionary -- That was put together by Dr Johnson & published in 1755.

Answer 2

Though Chef Emeril Lagasse grew up in Massachusetts, he studied French cuisine in Paris and Lyons. Madeleines, tuiles, and palmiers--these are specific types of French cookies. The general French word is usually biscuit or gâteau sec.

The word cookie is an Americanism, first recorded in American English about 1703, and borrowed from the language of the Dutch immigrants in North America. The source was Dutch koekie, a dialectal variant of koekje, which, in modern Dutch, means 'cupcake, literally, little cake'. The Dutch word koek 'cake' is in turn related to the Scandinavian source of English cake, and to German Kuchen cake, Keks cookie. So, though it would seem to make sense, English cookie is not at all related to the word cook.

In Scotland, a cookie is 'a plain bun', and is probably a 19th-century borrowing from English.

The variant spelling cooky was used up until the mid-20th century. For example, it appears in Willa Cather's Song of the Lark (1915). And I've seen this spelling in cookbooks from the 1950s.

Before the 18th century, the term for this culinary delight was biscuit, as it still is in British English. (To confuse matters, a British "biscuit" is also what Americans call a "cracker," and the phrase "That takes the biscuit!" is translated in America as "That takes the cake!") Also, if you're wondering what the Dutch call it, their word is also biscuit.

Besides cookie, other culinary terms borrowed from Dutch are cruller (1818, in Washington Irving's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow), coleslaw (1794), waffle (1744), and brandy (1615).

Though the Dutch introduced us to coleslaw and crullers, they didn't invent cookies. The earliest cookie-like cakes are thought to date back to 7th-century Persia.

Answer 3

before crumb

Answer 4

have no idea