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mount aorangi

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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  (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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