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cook

Pronunciation: /kʊk/

The English word “cook” has 20 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A person who prepares food.
  2. The head cook of a manor house.
  3. The degree or quality of cookedness of food.
  4. The member of a hot-rivetting team who heats the rivets in a brazier, see rivet.
  5. One who manufactures certain illegal drugs, especially meth.
  6. A session of manufacturing certain illegal drugs, especially meth.
  7. A fish, the European striped wrasse, Labrus mixtus.
  8. An unintended solution to a chess problem, considered to spoil the problem.

verb

  1. To prepare food for eating, typically by heating it, combining it with other ingredients, seasoning it, preparing it for serving, etc.
  2. To apply heat to food in the course of preparing it, particularly in a way that transforms it rather than simply making it warmer.
  3. To undergo cooking.
  4. To smelt.
  5. To be uncomfortably hot.
  6. To kill, destroy, or otherwise render useless or inoperative through exposure to excessive heat or radiation.
  7. To execute by electric chair.
  8. To hold on to a grenade briefly after igniting the fuse, so that it explodes almost immediately after being thrown.
  9. To concoct or prepare.
  10. To tamper with or alter; to cook up.
  11. To play or improvise in an inspired and rhythmically exciting way. (From 1930s jive talk.)
  12. To play music vigorously.

Etymology

From Middle English cook, from Old English cōc (“a cook”), from Latin cocus, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pekʷ- (“to cook, become ripe”). Cognates Cognate with Cimbrian khoch (“cook”), Dutch kok (“cook”), German Koch (“cook”), Luxembourgish Kach (“cook”), Danish kok (“cook”), Icelandic kokkur (“cook”), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk kokk (“cook”), Swedish kock (“cook”). Also…

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