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cook

UK/kʊk/ US/kuːk/ common slang uk
verb (5) noun (2)

verb

1.

prepare a hot meal

  • “My husband doesn”
2.

prepare for eating by applying heat

  • “Cook me dinner, please”
  • “can you make me an omelette?”
  • “fix breakfast for the guests, please”
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3.

transform and make suitable for consumption by heating

  • “These potatoes have to cook for 20 minutes”
4.

transform by heating

  • “The apothecary cooked the medicinal mixture in a big iron kettle”
5.

fake or falsify

  • “Fudge the figures”
  • “cook the books”
  • “falsify the data”
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noun

1.

someone who cooks food

2.

English navigator who claimed the east coast of Australia for Britain and discovered several Pacific islands (1728-1779)

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Origin

From Middle English cook, from Old English cōc (“a cook”), from Latin cocus, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pekʷ- (“to cook, become ripe”).

Phrases

  • chief cook and bottle washer
  • chief cook and bottle-washer
  • cold cook
  • cook back
  • cook book
  • cook car
  • Cook County
  • Cook Inlet
  • Cook Islands
  • Cook Peninsula
  • cook pot
  • Cook reduction

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