cook

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English[edit]

Trainee cooks preparing food

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA: /kʊk/
  • (UK dialectal) IPA: /kuk/
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Etymology 1[edit]

From Middle English, from Old English cōc (“a cook”), from Proto-Germanic *kukaz (“cook”), from Latin coquus (“cook”), from coquō, ultimately 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”), Albanian kuq (“to fry, cook”).

Noun[edit]

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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
  3. A fish, the European striped wrasse.
Synonyms[edit]
  • (food preparation for a living): chef
Hyponyms[edit]
Coordinate terms[edit]

(food preparation for a living):

(head cook of a manor house):

Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
a person who prepares food for a living

Etymology 2[edit]

From Middle English coken, from Old English *cōcian (“to cook”) (compare Old English ġecōcsian (“to cook, roast”), ġecōcnian (“to season food”)), from Proto-Germanic *kukōną (“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”).

Verb[edit]

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) To prepare (unspecified) food for eating by heating it, often by combining it with other ingredients.
    He's in the kitchen, cooking.
  3. (intransitive) To be being cooked.
    The dinner is cooking on the stove.
  4. (intransitive, figuratively) 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, slang) To hold onto (a grenade) briefly after igniting the fuse, so that it explodes almost immediately after being thrown.
    I always cook my frags, in case they try to grab one and throw it back.
  6. To concoct or prepare; to tamper with or alter; to cook up.
    • Addison
      They all of them receive the same advices from abroad, and very often in the same words; but their way of cooking it is so different.
Synonyms[edit]
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Hyponyms[edit]
Translations[edit]
prepare (food) for eating
prepare food
become ready for eating
colloquial: be uncomfortably hot
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Middle English[edit]

Noun[edit]

cook (plural cooks)

  1. a cook

Descendants[edit]

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