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Definition cook

Etymology 1

From Middle English cook, from Old English c?c (“a cook”), from Latin coquus (“cook”), from coqu?, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pek?- (“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”).

Noun

cook (plural cooks)

1. (cooking) A person who prepares food.
2. (cooking) The head cook of a manor house
3. (slang) One who manufactures certain illegal drugs, especially meth.
4. (slang) A session of manufacturing certain illegal drugs, especially meth.
5. A fish, the European striped wrasse, Labrus mixtus.

Etymology 2

From Middle English coken, from the noun cook.

Verb

cook (third-person singular simple present cooks, present participle cooking, simple past and past participle cooked)

1. (transitive) To prepare (food) for eating by heating it, often by combining it with other ingredients.
2. (intransitive) To prepare (unspecified) food for eating by heating it, often by combining it with other ingredients.
3. (intransitive) To be being cooked.
4. (intransitive, figuratively) To be uncomfortably hot.
5. (slang) To execute by electric chair.
6. (transitive, slang) To hold onto (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. (intransitive, jazz, slang) To play or improvise in an inspired and rhythmically exciting way. (From 1930s jive talk.)
10. (intransitive, music, slang) To play music vigorously.

Etymology 3

Imitative.

Verb

cook (third-person singular simple present cooks, present participle cooking, simple past and past participle cooked)

1. (obsolete, rare, intransitive) To make the noise of the cuckoo.

Etymology 4

Unknown; possibly related to chuck.

Verb

cook (third-person singular simple present cooks, present participle cooking, simple past and past participle cooked)

1. (Britain, dialectal, obsolete) To throw.

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