cook

Significat (English)

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.

Synonyms

boil

chef

roast

prepare

burn

cooking

make

prepare food

bake

dress

👗

ripen

simmer

falsify

do

concoct

stew

🍲

male cook

build

fry

sauce

toast

ripe

cooky

fix

wangle

braise

brew

broil

cooker

cook up

fabricate

fake

fudge

furnace

grill

heat

manipulate

mature

misrepresent

parboil

ragout

ready

be cooked

cook well

do the cooking

female cook

cook a meal

frizzle

come up

kitchen maid

kitchen manager

garble

get

get up

cooking rice

grow

happen

way of cooking

herder

invent

kitchenmaid

lunch

combine

house-keeper

maturate

cause to cook

meals

measure

melt

mess

braai

mix

occur

pan

get ripe

pervert

poach

poke

coccus

be ripe

cook rice

rig

cocci

chief

chef-d’oeuvre

catering

saute

sear

season

shape

brewer

skewer

slushy

so

soak

sophisticate

boarding

sting

stoke

board

torrefy

twist

twist around

blend

warm

☀️

weak

wife

👰‍♀️

work

wrap

you

food-maker

boil water

cook by boiling

make a dish

make ripe

cause to boil

light fire

make hot

make ready

barbecue

prepare a dish

cookie

🍪

counterfeit

create

decoct

cooked

doctor

🧑‍⚕️

convolute

dry

dumpling

🥟

baker

set fire to

construct

fashion

compose

forge

form

frizz

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/kʊk/

Etimologia (English)

Inherited from anglès mitjà: cook

Inherited from anglès antic: cōc

Cognate with baix alemany: kokk

Cognate with neerlandès: kok

Cognate with alemany: Koch

Cognate with danès: kok

Cognate with noruec: kokk

Cognate with suec: kock

Cognate with islandès: kokkur

Inherited from anglès mitjà: coken

In summary

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”).

Frases

She bought three cod fishes to cook for dinner .