cooker

English

Etymology

From cook +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkʊkɚ/
• IPA^(key): /ˈkʊkə/
• Rhymes: -ʊkə(ɹ)

Noun

cooker (plural cookers)

1. (chiefly British) A device for heating food, a stove.
2. (chiefly British, except in compounds) An appliance or utensil for cooking food.
3. A cooking apple.
   • 2004, Laura Mason, Food Culture in Great Britain, page 94:

     For the British market, apples are classed as early, mid-season, or late, and subdivided into eaters or cookers.

Synonyms

• stove

Derived terms

Terms derived from cooker

• AGA cooker
• electric cooker
• gas cooker
• multicooker
• pressure cooker
• rice cooker
• slow cooker

Translations

device for heating food, stove

• Finnish: liesi (fi), hella (fi)
• Hungarian: tűzhely (hu), rezsó (hu)
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• Irish: sorn cistine m
• Maori: tō

appliance or utensil for cooking

• Bulgarian: пе́чка (bg) f (péčka)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 炊具 (zh) (chuījù), 厨灶 (zh) (chúzào)

• Czech: vařič (cs) m, sporák (cs) m
• Finnish: kattila (fi), painekattila; keitin (fi)
• German: Herd (de) m
• Greek: κουζίνα (el) f (kouzína)
• Hebrew: כיריים f pl (kiráyim), כירה f (kirá)
• Hungarian: főző (hu), főzőedény (hu)
• Irish: sorn cistine m
• Japanese: コンロ (ja) (konro), 焜炉 (ja) (こんろ, konro)
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• Latvian: plīts f, krāsns (lv) f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: komfyr (no) m

  Nynorsk: komfyr m

• Polish: kuchenka (pl) f
• Portuguese: utensílio de cozinha m
• Romanian: aragaz (ro) n
• Russian: плита́ (ru) f (plitá), пе́чка (ru) f (péčka)
• Scottish Gaelic: cucair m
• Spanish: cocina (es) f, estufa (es) f
• Swedish: spis (sv)
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

cooking apple — see cooking apple

Anagrams

• Crooke, recook