cook
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: arts
board-games
business
chess
construction
cooking
crafts
engineering
entertainment
food
games
government
hobbies
lifestyle
manufacturing
metallurgy
metalworking
military
music
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
video-games
war
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”).
Inflected forms:
form: cooks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cooks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: cooking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: cooked
pos: verb
tags: past
form: cooked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: cooken
pos: verb
tags: nonstandard
participle
past
rare
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: cook
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: cook
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: cooked
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: cook
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: cookest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: cooked
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: cookedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: cooks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: cooketh
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: cooked
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: cook
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: cooked
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: cook
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: cooked
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: cook
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: cooking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: cooked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: cooken
pos: verb
tags: nonstandard
participle
past
rare
Senses:
gloss: A person who prepares food.
pos: noun
examples: I'm a terrible cook, so I eat a lot of frozen dinners.
gloss: The head cook of a manor house.
pos: noun
gloss: The degree or quality of cookedness of food.
pos: noun
gloss: The member of a hot-rivetting team who heats the rivets in a brazier, see rivet.
pos: noun
gloss: One who manufactures certain illegal drugs, especially meth.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: Police found two meth cooks working in the illicit lab.
By late October, the pressure on the Dark Arrows' ecstasy cook had eased. Other suppliers had moved in with product.
Owsley Stanley was a pioneer LSD cook, and the Purple Owsley pill from his now-defunct lab was Dad's prized possession, a rare, potent, druggie collector's item, the alleged inspiration for the Hendrix song “Purple Haze.”
gloss: A session of manufacturing certain illegal drugs, especially meth.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: Punko told Plante he wanted to use a full barrel for the next cook.
gloss: A fish, the European striped wrasse, Labrus mixtus.
pos: noun
gloss: An unintended solution to a chess problem, considered to spoil the problem.
pos: noun
examples: The original endgame was one file to the right (Kf1, Kb5 etc.). But there is a cook after 1. c6 dxc6 2. d6 cxd6 3. h4 gxh3 e.p. 4. gxh3 Ka4! 5. h4 b5. My version eliminates the cook.
gloss: To prepare food for eating by heating it, often combining with other ingredients.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: I'm cooking bangers and mash.
He's in the kitchen, cooking.
You could just use ordinary shop-bought kecap manis to marinade the meat, but making your own is easy, has a far more elegant fragrance and is, above all, such a great brag! Flavouring kecap manis is an intensely personal thing, so try this version now and next time cook the sauce down with crushed, split lemongrass and a shredded lime leaf.
gloss: To smelt.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Your suggestion makes sense. You cook iron with coal to get... iron. The coal is expended, where does it go? inside the iron to turn it into steel in real life. I approve
gloss: To be cooked.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The dinner is cooking on the stove.
gloss: To be uncomfortably hot.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
intransitive
examples: Look at that poor dog shut up in that car on a day like today - it must be cooking in there.
gloss: To kill, destroy, or otherwise render useless or inoperative through exposure to excessive heat or radiation.
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
examples: You would die from what we might call "extremely acute radiation poisoning" – that is, you would be cooked.
"What's coming?" "Dunno yet. Cindy! Active scanning! Pulse hard, but don't cook any friendlies." "We have sensors that can cook people?" "Another reason why warship combat is not an indoor sport."
gloss: To execute by electric chair.
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
gloss: To hold on to a grenade briefly after igniting the fuse, so that it explodes almost immediately after being thrown.
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
examples: I always cook my frags, in case they try to grab one and throw it back.
gloss: To concoct or prepare.
pos: verb
examples: My brother was locked up for cooking meth in his basement.
Jesse, we need to cook.
The process of cooking meth can leave residue on surfaces all over the home, exposing all of its occupants to the drug.
gloss: To tamper with or alter; to cook up.
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
examples: They all of them receive the same advices from abroad, and very often in the same words; but their way of cooking it is so different, that there is no citizen, who has an eye to the public good, who can leave the coffee-house with peace of mind...
So far as Pridger was concerned the game was up. He had cooked the buying, he had cooked the selling, he had systematically pillaged the stock.
gloss: To play or improvise in an inspired and rhythmically exciting way. (From 1930s jive talk.)
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
slang
examples: Watch this band: they cook!
Crank up the Coltrane and start cooking!
This album is called Cookin’ at Miles’ request. He said, “After all, that’s what we did – came in and cooked.”
gloss: To play music vigorously.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
slang
examples: On the Wagner piece, the orchestra was cooking!
The tempos were swift. The orchestra cooked, reading [conductor] Kahane's mind and swinging with him as one.
gloss: 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).
pos: verb
tags: humorous
intransitive
slang
examples: Hol' up, let that boy cook!
OK, who let him cook?
gloss: 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).
pos: verb
tags: humorous
intransitive
slang
examples: We had to deal with some problems at first, but now we're cooking.
My bar was built by Frazier, Gary Manson, Robert Feck, Jeff Picoli — that's who built my bar. When I hired those people, that's when my bar started cookin'. 'Cause Frazier gets along with anybody — he has a magnetic personality, and he can make the worst piece of shit feel like king for a day.
Asensio as AMF might just be the truth man. Bro is cooking and now he has added a goal to top it all off.
WAIT YOU'RE ACTUALLY COOKING RN. Emberwake ring. Quick math says that's about 21% more damage than just using tawhoa. Ring also gives fire damage and ignite chance, which is great.
With the shot clock winding down, LA's superstars got accustomed to deferring to [Austin] Reaves and letting him cook for either open jumpers or moves that ultimately led to and-one's and free-throw attempts.
So Llama 4 immediately zooming up to number 2 on LM Arena would seem to indicate that Meta has really cooked here. They have built this incredible model.
gloss: 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).
pos: verb
tags: Australia
derogatory
humorous
intransitive
slang
examples: The furlough of workers during The Lockdowns left many with a conspiracy bent ample time to cook.
gloss: To defeat or humiliate.
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
examples: He didn't prepare for the debate at all, so his opponent cooked him hard.
You didn't have to cook him like that!
gloss: To cause to be cooked, i.e. to put in a hopeless situation.
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
examples: This new labor law is really cooking working-class people.
This assignment is cooking me big time.
Synonyms: cook
do
Related words: mageiricophobia
concoct
scramble
food
cookware
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
cooking pot
cooking-pot
cooking sherry
cooking show
cooking soda
cooking spray
cooking torch
cooking utensil
cooking with gas
cook out
cook someone's goose
cook the books
cook through
cook up
freezer cooking
home-cook
home-cooked
microcook
miscook
now you're cooking
outcook
overcook
parcook
precook
recook
red-cook
slow-cook
someone's goose is cooked
there's more than one way to cook an egg
uncook
what's cooking
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