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Vinony

cook

verb

  1. prepare food through heating
  2. to apply, or be affected by, heat thoroughly or completely (especially, but not limited to, preparing food)
  3. to happen, take place, be in progress or in the works
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noun

  1. occupation involving cooking food
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /kʊk/ / /kuːk/ / /kʉk/

name

Etymology: From cook. Doublet of Koch and Kok.

  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.
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  12. An electoral division in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

noun

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”).

  1. A person who prepares food.

    “I'm a terrible cook, so I eat a lot of frozen dinners.”

  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.

    “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.”

  6. A session of manufacturing certain illegal drugs, especially meth.

    “Punko told Plante he wanted to use a full barrel for the next cook.”

  7. A fish, the European striped wrasse, Labrus mixtus.
  8. An unintended solution to a chess problem, considered to spoil the problem.

    “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.”

verb

Etymology: Unknown; possibly related to chuck.

  1. To throw.

    “Cook. To throw. Cook me that ball, throw me that ball. Glou.”