English Explanatory Dictionary

cook

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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. The member of a hot-rivetting team who heats the rivets in a brazier, see rivet.
  5. One who manufactures certain illegal drugs, especially meth.
  6. A session of manufacturing certain illegal drugs, especially meth.
  7. A fish, the European striped wrasse, Labrus mixtus.
  8. 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 smelt.
  3. To be cooked.
  4. To be uncomfortably hot.
  5. To kill, destroy, or otherwise render useless or inoperative through exposure to excessive heat or radiation.
  6. To execute by electric chair.
  7. To hold on to a grenade briefly after igniting the fuse, so that it explodes almost immediately after being thrown.
  8. To concoct or prepare.
  9. To tamper with or alter; to cook up.
  10. To play or improvise in an inspired and rhythmically exciting way. (From 1930s jive talk.)
  11. To play music vigorously.
  12. 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).
verb
  1. To make the noise of the cuckoo.
verb
  1. To throw.
name
  1. An English surname originating as an occupation for a cook or seller of cooked food. Famously held by James Cook, English captain and explorer of the Pacific Ocean, and for whom the Cook Islands, Cook Strait and Mount Cook were named.
  2. A placename:
  3. A locale in the United States:
  4. A township in Sac County, Iowa.
  5. A township in Decatur County, Kansas.
  6. A minor city in Saint Louis County, Minnesota; named for railroad official Wirth Cook.
  7. A village in Johnson County, Nebraska; named for landowner Andrew Cook.
  8. An unincorporated community in Madison Township, Fayette County, Ohio; named for landowner Matthew S. Cook.
  9. A township in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania.
  10. A suburb of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia; named for James Cook.
  11. A local government area in Far North Queensland, Australia; in full, the Shire of Cook.
  12. A ghost town in South Australia, Australia; named for Joseph Cook, 6th Prime Minister of Australia.

Pronunciation

/kʊk/ en-us-cook.ogg En-uk-to cook.ogg en-au-cook.ogg /kuːk/ /kʉk/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-cook.wav

Word forms

cook cooks cooking cooked cooken no-table-tags glossary cookest cookedst cooketh Cooke Coke

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pekʷ- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *pékʷeti Proto-Italic *kʷekʷō Latin coquō Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Italic *-os Old Latin -os Latin -us Latin coquus Vulgar Latin *cocusbor. Old English cōc Middle English cook English cook From Middle English cook, from Old English cōc (“a cook”), from Latin cocus, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pekʷ- (“to cook, become ripe”). Cognates Cognate with Cimbrian khoch (“cook”), Dutch kok (“cook”), German Koch (“cook”), Luxembourgish Kach (“cook”), Danish kok (“cook”), Icelandic kokkur (“cook”), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk kokk (“cook”), Swedish kock (“cook”). Also compare Proto-West Germanic *kokōn (“to cook”) (whence North Frisian kööge, kööki (“to cook, boil”), West Frisian koaitsje (“to cook”), Cimbrian khochan, khòchan (“to cook”), Dutch koken (“to cook”), German kochen (“to cook”), Limburgish kaoke, kauche (“to cook”), Luxembourgish kachen (“to cook”), Vilamovian kocha, koha (“to cook”), Yiddish קאָכן (kokhn, “to cook”)), from Late Latin cocō (“to cook”).

Synonyms

cooker cook do bake stew fry cook off fling hurl bung cast chuck chunk dash dump feck jerk heave hield hoy huck hurtle launch lob peck peg pick pitch precipitate project quoit shy slight skew sling thrill throw toss traject warp whang whip whop wing Weheka

Related words

mageiricophobia concoct scramble food cookware Cox

Derived words

autocook chief cook and bottle-washer chief cook and bottle washer cold cook cook book cookbook cook car cookdom cookee cookery cookfire cookhouse cookie cookish cookless cookline cookmaid cook-off cookout cook pot cookpot cookroom cookset cookshack cookshed cookshop cookstove cooktent cook-tent cook tent cooktop cook-up cookware fry cook head cook and bottle washer head cook and bottle-washer McCook noncook pastrycook pastry cook plain cook short-order cook son of a sea-cook subcook supercook undercook cookability cookable cookaholic cook back cook-chill cook-chilled cook-chilling cooker cooking cooking apple cooking box cooking lager cooking on gas cooking plate
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