Cook Definition

ko͝ok
cooked, cooking, cooks
verb
cooked, cooking, cooks
To act or serve as a cook.
Webster's New World
To prepare (food) for eating by subjecting to heat, as by boiling, baking, frying, etc.
Webster's New World
To subject to heat or to some treatment suggestive of a heating process.
Webster's New World
To undergo the process of being cooked.
Webster's New World
To tamper with; falsify.
Webster's New World
noun
cooks
A person who prepares food for eating.
Webster's New World
(cooking) A person who prepares food for a living.
Wiktionary

(cooking) The head cook of a manor house.

Wiktionary
A fish, the European striped wrasse.
Wiktionary
Synonyms:
  • Captain James Cook
  • Captain Cook
  • james cook
  • caterer
  • head cook
  • chef de cuisine (French)
  • mess sergeant
  • cook-general (British)
  • sous-chef
  • culinarian
  • salad chef
  • meat cook
  • short-order cook
  • chef
  • cuisinier
pronoun
Wiktionary
idiom
cook (one's) goose
  • To ruin one's chances:

    The speeding ticket cooked his goose with his father. Her goose was cooked when she was caught cheating on the test.

American Heritage
cook up
  • to concoct; devise; invent

    to cook up an alibi

Webster's New World
what's cooking?
  • what's happening?
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Cook

Noun

Singular:
cook
Plural:
cooks

Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Cook

Origin of Cook

  • From Middle English, from Old English cōc (“a cook”), from Proto-Germanic *kukaz (“cook”), from Latin coquus (“cook”), from coquō, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pekʷ- (“to cook, become ripe”). Cognate with Low German kokk (“cook”), Dutch kok (“cook”), German Koch (“cook”), Danish kok (“cook”), Norwegian kokk (“cook”), Swedish kock (“cook”), Icelandic kokkur (“cook”), Albanian kuq (“to fry, cook”).

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English coken from coke cook from Old English cōc from Vulgar Latin cōcus from Latin cocus, coquus from coquere to cook pekw- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • An occupational surname for a cook, or a seller of cooked food.

    From Wiktionary

  • The verb is from Middle English coken, from the noun.

    From Wiktionary

  • Imitative.

    From Wiktionary

  • Unknown.

    From Wiktionary

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