cook

Meanings

Noun

• A person who prepares food.
• The head cook of a manor house
• The degree or quality of cookedness of food
• One who manufactures certain illegal drugs, especially meth.
• A session of manufacturing certain illegal drugs, especially meth.
• A fish, the European striped wrasse, Labrus mixtus (species).

Verb

• To prepare food for eating by heating it, often combining with other ingredients.
• To be cooked.
• To be uncomfortably hot.
• To execute by electric chair.
• To hold on to a grenade briefly after igniting the fuse, so that it explodes almost immediately after being thrown.
• To concoct or prepare.
• To tamper with or alter; to cook up.
• To play or improvise in an inspired and rhythmically exciting way. (From 1930s jive talk.)
• To play music vigorously.
• To make the noise of the cuckoo.
• To throw.

Related

Similar words

• bake, stew
• cook off

Narrower meaning words

• Troponyms: bake, barbecue, boil, braise, fry, grill, microwave, poach, roast, scramble, steam, stew

Broader meaning words

• concoct, contrive, devise, make up, plan, prepare

Origin

• From Middle English cook, from Old English cōc, from Latin cocus, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pekʷ-.
• Cognate with Low German kokk, Dutch kok, German Koch, Danish kok, Norwegian kokk, Swedish kock, Icelandic kokkur. Also compare Proto-West Germanic *kokōn.
• From Middle English coken, from the noun cook.
• Imitative.
• Unknown; possibly related to chuck.