cook

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[edit] Etymology 1

From Middle English, from Old English cōc (“a cook”), from Proto-Germanic *kukaz (“cook”), from Latin coquus (“cook”), from Proto-Indo-European *pekʷ- (“to cook, become ripe”). Cognate with Low German kokk (“cook”), Dutch kok (“cook”), German Koch (“cook”), Danish kok (“cook”), Swedish kock (“cook”), Icelandic kokkur (“cook”).

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Wikipedia cook (plural cooks)

  1. (cooking) A person who prepares food for a living.
  2. (cooking) The head cook of a manor house
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  • (food preparation for a living): chef
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(food preparation for a living):

(head cook of a manor house):

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a person who prepares food for a living

[edit] Etymology 2

From Middle English coken, from Old English *cōcian (“to cook”) (compare Old English ġecōcsian (“to cook, roast”), ġecōcnian (“to season food”)), from Proto-Germanic *kokōnan (“to cook”), from Latin coquō (“cook”, v), from Proto-Indo-European *pekʷ- (“to cook, become ripe”). Cognate with Dutch koken (“to cook”), German kochen (“to cook, boil”), Swedish koka (“to boil, cook”), Old English āfiġen (“fried”).

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cook (third-person singular simple present cooks, present participle cooking, simple past and past participle cooked)

  1. (transitive) To prepare (food) for eating by heating it, often by combining it with other ingredients.
    I'm cooking bangers and mash.
  2. (intransitive, of a person) To prepare (unspecified) food for eating by heating it, often by combining it with other ingredients.
    He's in the kitchen, cooking.
  3. (intransitive, of food) To become ready for eating by the application of heat.
    The dinner is cooking on the stove.
  4. (intransitive, colloquial) To be uncomfortably hot.
    Look at that poor dog shut up in that car on a day like today - it must be cooking in there.
  5. (transitive) To briefly hold on to a grenade after igniting the fuse, so that it explodes almost immediately after being thrown.
    I always cook my frags, in case they try to grab it and throw it back.
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prepare (food) for eating
prepare food
become ready for eating
colloquial: be uncomfortably hot
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cook (plural cooks)

  1. a cook

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