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[koo
k] 
–verb (used with object)
| 1. | to prepare (food) by the use of heat, as by boiling, baking, or roasting. |
| 2. | to subject (anything) to the application of heat. |
| 3. | Slang. to ruin; spoil. |
| 4. | Informal. to falsify, as accounts: to cook the expense figures. |
–verb (used without object)
| 5. | to prepare food by the use of heat. |
| 6. | (of food) to undergo cooking. |
| 7. | Slang.
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–noun
—Verb phrases| 8. | a person who cooks: The restaurant hired a new cook. |
| 9. | cook off, (of a shell or cartridge) to explode or fire without being triggered as a result of overheating in the chamber of the weapon. |
| 10. | cook up, Informal.
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| 11. | cook one's goose. goose (def. 11). |
| 12. | cook the books, Slang. to manipulate the financial records of a company, organization, etc., so as to conceal profits, avoid taxes, or present a false financial report to stockholders. |
Origin:
bef. 1000; (n.) ME cok(e), OE cōc (cf. ON kokkr, G Koch, D kok) < L cocus, coquus, deriv. of coquere to cook; akin to Gk péptein (see peptic ); (v.) late ME coken, deriv. of the n.
bef. 1000; (n.) ME cok(e), OE cōc (cf. ON kokkr, G Koch, D kok) < L cocus, coquus, deriv. of coquere to cook; akin to Gk péptein (see peptic ); (v.) late ME coken, deriv. of the n.
Related forms:
cook⋅a⋅ble, adjective
cookless, adjective
Cook
[kook] –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 (kŏŏk) v. cooked, cook·ing, cooks v. tr.
Phrasal Verb(s): cook up Informal To fabricate; concoct: cook up an excuse. Idiom(s): cook (one's) goose Slang To ruin one's chances: The speeding ticket cooked his goose with his father. Her goose was cooked when she was caught cheating on the test. [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.] |
| Cook (kŏŏk) American physician and Arctic explorer who announced that he had reached the North Pole in 1908, a claim that was rejected by the scientific community. |
| Cook, James Known as "Captain Cook." 1728-1779. British navigator and explorer who commanded three major voyages of discovery, charting and naming many islands of the Pacific Ocean. He also sailed along the coast of North America as far north as the Bering Strait. |
Cook, Mount
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Cook
Cook\ (k[=oo]k), v. i. [Of imitative origin.] To make the noise of the cuckoo. [Obs. or R.] Constant cuckoos cook on every side. --The Silkworms (1599).Cook
Cook\ (k[oo^]k), v. t. [Etymol. unknown.] To throw. [Prov.Eng.] "Cook me that ball." --Grose.Cook
Cook\ (k[oo^]k), n. [AS. c[=o]c, fr. l. cocus, coquus, coquus, fr. coquere to cook; akin to Gr. ?, Skr. pac, and to E. apricot, biscuit, concoct, dyspepsia, precocious. Cf. Pumpkin.]1. One whose occupation is to prepare food for the table; one who dresses or cooks meat or vegetables for eating. 2. (Zo["o]l.) A fish, the European striped wrasse.Cook
Cook\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cooked; p. pr & vb. n. Cooking.]1. To prepare, as food, by boiling, roasting, baking, broiling, etc.; to make suitable for eating, by the agency of fire or heat. 2. To concoct or prepare; hence, to tamper with or alter; to garble; -- often with up; as, to cook up a story; to cook an account. [Colloq.] 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. --Addison.Cook
Cook\ (k[oo^]k), v. i. To prepare food for the table.
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Language Translation for : cook
Spanish:
cocinar, guisar, preparar (la comida), cocer,
German:
kochen,
Japanese:
料理する
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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Cook
a person employed to perform culinary service. In early times among the Hebrews cooking was performed by the mistress of the household (Gen. 18:2-6; Judg. 6:19), and the process was very expeditiously performed (Gen. 27:3, 4, 9, 10). Professional cooks were afterwards employed (1 Sam. 8:13; 9:23). Few animals, as a rule, were slaughtered (other than sacrifices), except for purposes of hospitality (Gen. 18:7; Luke 15:23). The paschal lamb was roasted over a fire (Ex. 12:8, 9; 2Chr. 35:13). Cooking by boiling was the usual method adopted (Lev. 8:31; Ex. 16:23). No cooking took place on the Sabbath day (Ex. 35:3).
Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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cook
In addition to the idioms beginning with cook, also see chief cook and bottlewasher; short order (cook); too many cooks spoil the broth; what's cooking.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
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