cook

== English == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /kʊk/ (some speakers from Northern England and Ireland) IPA(key): /kuːk/ (Scotland, Northern Ireland) IPA(key): /kʉk/ Homophone: cuck (most accents without the foot-strut split) Rhymes: -ʊk === Etymology 1 === From Middle English cook, from Old English cōc (“a cook”), from Latin cocus, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pekʷ- (“to cook, become ripe”). ==== Noun ==== cook (plural cooks) (cooking) A person who prepares food. Synonym: cooker Hyponyms: chef, cordon bleu Coordinate terms: chef, cookess, cookeress, culinary artist, line cook, magirist, magirologist, prep cook, sous-chef (cooking) The head cook of a manor house. Coordinate terms: kitchenmaid, scullery maid (cooking) The degree or quality of cookedness of food. (metalworking, construction) The member of a hot-rivetting team who heats the rivets in a brazier, see rivet. (slang) One who manufactures certain illegal drugs, especially meth. (slang) A session of manufacturing certain illegal drugs, especially meth. A fish, the European striped wrasse, Labrus mixtus. (chess) An unintended solution to a chess problem, considered to spoil the problem. ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Descendants ===== Sranan Tongo: kukru (via cook room) Aukan: kukuu Tok Pisin: kuk → Norman: couque → Portuguese: cuca → Thai: กุ๊ก (gúk) → Tokelauan: kuka ===== Translations ===== === Etymology 2 === From Middle English coken, from the noun cook. In the slang sense of "proceed with some plan", coined by American rapper from California Lil B in 2010 and popularized in viral tweets and TikToks in mid-2022. ==== Verb ==== cook (third-person singular simple present cooks, present participle cooking, simple past cooked, past participle cooked or (rare, nonstandard) cooken) (ambitransitive, generally) To prepare food for eating, typically by heating it, combining it with other ingredients, seasoning it, preparing it for serving, etc. (transitive, specifically) To apply heat to food in the course of preparing it, particularly in a way that transforms it rather than simply making it warmer. (intransitive) To undergo cooking. (transitive, video games) To smelt. (intransitive, figuratively) To be uncomfortably hot. Synonyms: bake, stew (transitive, slang) To kill, destroy, or otherwise render useless or inoperative through exposure to excessive heat or radiation. (transitive, slang) To execute by electric chair. Synonym: fry (transitive, military slang) To hold on to a grenade briefly after igniting the fuse, so that it explodes almost immediately after being thrown. Synonym: cook off To concoct or prepare. (transitive, slang) To tamper with or alter; to cook up. (intransitive, jazz, slang) To play or improvise in an inspired and rhythmically exciting way. (From 1930s jive talk.) 1957, Miles Davis quoted by Ira Gitler, liner notes to Cookin' with the Miles Davis Quintet, Prestige LP 7094: This album is called Cookin’ at Miles’ request. He said, “After all, that’s what we did – came in and cooked.” (intransitive, music, slang) To play music vigorously. (intransitive, slang, humorous) To proceed with some plan or course of action, or develop some train of thought towards its conclusion (whether this is advantageous, or comical, or digging into a hole). (intransitive, slang, humorous) To proceed with some advantageous course of action; (more generally) to be successful. (intransitive, slang, derogatory, Australia) To develop insane or fringe ideas. (transitive, slang) To defeat or humiliate. (transitive, slang) To cause to be cooked, i.e. to put in a hopeless situation. ===== Conjugation ===== ===== Hypernyms ===== (to prepare or plan something): concoct, contrive, devise, make up, plan, prepare ===== Hyponyms ===== Troponyms: bake, barbecue, boil, braise, fry, grill, microwave, poach, roast, scramble, steam, stew See also Thesaurus:cook ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Descendants ===== →? Cantonese: 焗 (guk6) → Norman: coutchi ===== Translations ===== ==== See also ==== === Etymology 3 === Imitative. ==== Verb ==== cook (third-person singular simple present cooks, present participle cooking, simple past and past participle cooked) (obsolete, rare, intransitive) To make the noise of the cuckoo. === Etymology 4 === Unknown; possibly related to chuck. ==== Verb ==== cook (third-person singular simple present cooks, present participle cooking, simple past and past participle cooked) (UK, dialect, obsolete) To throw. Synonyms: fling, hurl; see also Thesaurus:throw === References === == Middle English == === Alternative forms === cok, coke, koke, cuyke, cuke, cooke === Etymology === From Old English cōc, from Vulgar Latin cocus, from Latin coquus. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /koːk/ === Noun === cook (plural cookes) cook, chef, restaurateur (figurative) nourisher, nourishment ==== Descendants ==== English: cookSranan Tongo: kukru (via cook room)Aukan: kukuuTok Pisin: kuk→ Norman: couque→ Portuguese: cuca→ Thai: กุ๊ก (gúk)→ Tokelauan: kuka Scots: cuke, cuik ==== References ==== “cọ̄k, n.(6).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 3 April 2018. == Vietnamese == === Etymology === Borrowed from English cook through homophony with cút. === Pronunciation === === Noun === cook (neologism, Internet slang) synonym of cút (“to beat it; to take a hike; to get lost”) thế này thì cook rồi ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)