Cook Definition
(cooking) The head cook of a manor house.
- Captain James Cook
- Captain Cook
- james cook
- caterer
- head cook
- chef de cuisine (French)
- mess sergeant
- cook-general (British)
- sous-chef
- culinarian
- salad chef
- meat cook
- short-order cook
- chef
- cuisinier
- To ruin one's chances:
The speeding ticket cooked his goose with his father. Her goose was cooked when she was caught cheating on the test.
- to concoct; devise; invent
to cook up an alibi
- what's happening?
Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Cook
- cook (one's) goose
- cook up
- what's cooking?
Origin of Cook
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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”), Norwegian kokk (“cook”), Swedish kock (“cook”), Icelandic kokkur (“cook”), Albanian kuq (“to fry, cook”).
From Wiktionary
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Middle English coken from coke cook from Old English cōc from Vulgar Latin cōcus from Latin cocus, coquus from coquere to cook pekw- in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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An occupational surname for a cook, or a seller of cooked food.
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The verb is from Middle English coken, from the noun.
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Imitative.
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Unknown.
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