cook

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He paid his cook, and his cook was the only person he did pay, in ready money.

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  1. transitive verb To prepare (food) for eating by applying heat.
  2. transitive verb To prepare or treat by heating: slowly cooked the medicinal mixture.
  3. transitive verb Slang To alter or falsify so as to make a more favorable impression; doctor: disreputable accountants who were paid to cook the firm's books.

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  • Occasionally they try and tell me the cook is Thai, but when I get the food, it is not Thai food but a greasy Chinese / Vietnamese concoction. —  Westword | Complete Issue
  • That being said, the things that I yearn for as a cook are always the most simply prepared, market driven dishes. —  ruhlman.com
  • For since neither she nor the cook was acquainted with Mr. John Bellingham, she had remained the whole time either in the kitchen, which commanded a view of the front gate, or in the dining-room, which opened into the hall opposite the study door. —  The Eye of Osiris
  • Then, turning to one that sate next to him, he said very gravely, that he hoped, as the cook was a woman of genius, he should, by this manner of arguing, be able, in about a year's time, to convince her she had better send up the meat too little than too much done: at the same time he charged the men-servants, that whenever they thought the meat was ready, to take it up, spit and all, and bring it up by force, promising to assist them in case the cook resisted. —  Irish Wit and Humor Anecdote Biography of Swift, Curran, O'Leary and O'Connell
  • He apologised for not inviting us to dine during these depressing days, but said he could not, as his cook was a Lucretia di Borgia. —  A Journal From Our Legation in Belgium
 

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food ·  meal ·  servant ·  dish ·  nurse ·  coffee ·  meat ·  kitchen ·  stew ·  vegetable ·  doctor ·  engineer

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cook:   cooking ·  cooked ·  cooks
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Etymologies (5)

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  1. Middle English coken, from coke, cook, from Old English cōc, from Vulgar Latin *cōcus, from Latin cocus, coquus, from coquere, to cook; see pekw- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English coken (cf. Anglo-Saxon gecōcnian, cook) = D, koken = Old High German cochōn, chochōn, chohhōn, Middle High German chochen, kochen, German kochen = Danish koge = Swedish koka, boil, cook (the verb in Teutonic being in part from the noun), = French cuire = Provencal cozer, coire = Spanish cocer (cf. Portuguese cozinhar) = Italian cuocere, cook, from Latin coquere, cook (bake, boil, roast, etc.: see coct, concoct), =Gr.πέπ-τειν,cook (see peptic), = Sanskritpach, cook: see cook, n.
  2. from Middle English cook, coke, cok, coc, from Anglo-Saxon cōc = Old Saxon kok = Dutch kok = Old High German choh, Middle High German G. koch = Danish kok = Swedish kock = Italian cuoco, from Latin coquus, also cocus, early L. coquos, a cook, from coquere, cook: see cook, v.
  3. = Hindustani kūkna, cry as a cuckoo; imitative of the sound. Cf. cuckoo, coo, cock, etc.
  4. Also written couk. Cf. keek.
 

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