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Cook

  [kook]
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–noun
1. Frederick Albert, 1865–1940, U.S. physician and polar explorer.
2. George Cram  [kram] , 1873–1924, U.S. novelist, dramatist, and poet.
3. Captain James, 1728–79, English navigator and explorer in the S Pacific, Antarctic Ocean, and along the coasts of Australia and New Zealand.
4. Sir Joseph, 1860–1947, Australian statesman, born in England: prime minister 1913–14.
5. Mount. Also called Aorangi. a mountain in New Zealand, on South Island. 12,349 ft. (3764 m).
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Cook, Captain James

An English explorer of the eighteenth century, known for his voyages to the Pacific Ocean. Cook visited New Zealand, established the first European colony in Australia, and was the first European to visit Hawaii. He also approached Antarctica and explored much of the western coast of North America.

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Word Origin & History

cook  (n.)
O.E. coc, from V.L. cocus "cook," from L. coquus, from coquere "to cook, prepare food, ripen, digest, turn over in the mind" from PIE base *pekw- "to cook" (cf. Oscan popina "kitchen," Skt. pakvah "cooked," Gk. peptein, Lith. kepti "to bake, roast," O.C.S. pecenu "roasted"). The noun was first; Gmc. languages had no one native term for all types of cooking. The verb is first attested c.1380; the figurative sense of "to manipulate, falsify, doctor" is from 1636. Cookout is from 1947; to cook with gas is 1930s jive talk.
"There is the proverb, the more cooks the worse potage." [Gascoigne, 1575]
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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