cook

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Meaning

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.

prepare food

male cook

be cooked

cook well

do the cooking

female cook

cook a meal

frizzle

come up

kitchen maid

kitchen manager

cooking rice

way of cooking

house-keeper

cause to cook

get ripe

be ripe

cook rice

chef-d’oeuvre

twist around

food-maker

boil water

cook by boiling

make a dish

make ripe

cause to boil

light fire

make hot

make ready

prepare a dish

set fire to

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/kʊk/

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”).