cook

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. (ambitransitive) To prepare food for eating by heating it, often combining with other ingredients.
2. (transitive) To smelt.
3. (intransitive) To be cooked.
4. (figuratively, intransitive) To be uncomfortably hot.
5. (slang, transitive) To kill, destroy, or otherwise render useless or inoperative through exposure to excessive heat or radiation.
6. (slang, transitive) To execute by electric chair.
7. (slang, transitive) To hold on to a grenade briefly after igniting the fuse, so that it explodes almost immediately after being thrown.
8. (transitive) To concoct or prepare.
9. (slang, transitive) To tamper with or alter; to cook up.
10. (intransitive, slang) To play or improvise in an inspired and rhythmically exciting way. (From 1930s jive talk.)
11. (intransitive, slang) To play music vigorously.
12. (humorous, intransitive, 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. (humorous, intransitive, 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. (Australia, derogatory, humorous, intransitive, 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).
15. (slang, transitive) To defeat or humiliate.
16. (slang, transitive) To cause to be cooked, i.e. to put in a hopeless situation.

Verb

To make the noise of the cuckoo.

Verb

To throw.

Pronounced as (IPA)

/kʊk/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: cook

Inherited from Old English: cōc

Cognate with Low German: kokk

Cognate with Dutch: kok

Cognate with German: Koch

Cognate with Danish: kok

Cognate with Norwegian: kokk

Cognate with Swedish: kock

Cognate with Icelandic: kokkur

Inherited from Middle English: 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”).

Synonyms

boil

chef

roast

prepare

burn

cooking

make

prepare food

bake

dress

👗

ripen

simmer

falsify

do

concoct

male cook

fry

build

stew

🍲

toast

sauce

cooky

fix

ripe

cook up

cook a meal

fudge

cooker

do the cooking

cook well

female cook

broil

fabricate

ready

wangle

misrepresent

mature

parboil

brew

fake

manipulate

braise

heat

furnace

grill

ragout

be cooked

cookie

🍪

catering

cooked

Translations

cuire

🧑‍🍳

kochen

🧑‍🍳

cuisinier

🧑‍🍳

cocinar

🧑‍🍳

Koch

🧑‍🍳

koken

🧑‍🍳

cuisiner

🧑‍🍳

cucinare

🧑‍🍳

cuoco

🧑‍🍳

cozinhar

🧑‍🍳

cocinero

🧑‍🍳

cuocere

🧑‍🍳

préparer

cuinar

🧑‍🍳

cocer

Sentences

She bought three cod fishes to cook for dinner .