cook

Meaning

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.

Concepts

cook

boil

chef

roast

prepare

burn

make

cooking

prepare food

bake

dress

ripen

simmer

concoct

falsify

do

toast

male cook

fry

build

sauce

stew

fix

cooky

ripe

fabricate

be cooked

heat

grill

mature

ready

fake

fudge

manipulate

misrepresent

wangle

cook up

do the cooking

parboil

female cook

brew

cooker

cook well

cook a meal

furnace

broil

braise

ragout

get

get up

prepare a dish

board

boarding

catering

meals

kitchen manager

kitchen maid

cooking rice

kitchenmaid

way of cooking

melt

food-maker

make a dish

blend

combine

mix

dry

cause to cook

occur

happen

doctor

slushy

house-keeper

sting

poke

stoke

counterfeit

forge

pan

frizz

frizzle

season

torrefy

decoct

brewer

cook by boiling

construct

create

fashion

form

invent

shape

make ready

lunch

dumpling

cause to boil

skewer

come up

boil water

make ripe

cooked

be ripe

baker

measure

work

cocci

coccus

cookie

grow

maturate

convolute

garble

pervert

rig

sophisticate

twist

twist around

chief

herder

barbecue

sear

set fire to

get ripe

chef-d’oeuvre

wife

compose

light fire

braai

poach

cook rice

wrap

so

weak

you

soak

mess

saute

make hot

warm

Pronounced as (IPA)

/kʊk/

Etymology

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”).