cook

Betekenis

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. (slang) One who manufactures certain illegal drugs, especially meth.
5. (slang) A session of manufacturing certain illegal drugs, especially meth.
6. A fish, the European striped wrasse, Labrus mixtus.
7. An unintended solution to a chess problem, considered to spoil the problem.

Verb

1. To prepare food for eating by heating it, often combining with other ingredients.
2. To be cooked.
3. To be uncomfortably hot.
4. (slang) To kill, destroy, or otherwise render useless or inoperative through exposure to excessive heat or radiation.
5. (slang) To execute by electric chair.
6. (slang) To hold on to a grenade briefly after igniting the fuse, so that it explodes almost immediately after being thrown.
7. To concoct or prepare.
8. To tamper with or alter; to cook up.
9. (slang) To play or improvise in an inspired and rhythmically exciting way. (From 1930s jive talk.)
10. (slang) To play music vigorously.
11. (slang) To proceed with some plan or course of action, or develop some train of thought towards its conclusion (whether this is advantageous, or comical, or digging into a hole).
12. (slang) To proceed with some plan or course of action, or develop some train of thought towards its conclusion (whether this is advantageous, or comical, or digging into a hole).
13. (slang) To proceed with some plan or course of action, or develop some train of thought towards its conclusion (whether this is advantageous, or comical, or digging into a hole).
14. (slang) To defeat or humiliate.

Verb

To make the noise of the cuckoo.

Verb

To throw.

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/kʊk/

Etimologie

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