Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To prepare (food) for eating by applying heat.
- intransitive verb To prepare or treat by heating.
- intransitive verb Slang To alter or falsify so as to make a more favorable impression; doctor.
- intransitive verb To prepare food for eating by applying heat.
- intransitive verb To undergo application of heat especially for the purpose of later ingestion.
- intransitive verb Slang To happen, develop, or take place.
- intransitive verb Slang To proceed or perform very well.
- noun A person who prepares food for eating.
- idiom (cook (one's) goose) To ruin one's chances.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One whose occupation is the cooking of food.
- To make fit for eating by the action of heat, as in boiling, stewing, roasting, baking, etc.; especially, to prepare in an appetizing way, as meats or vegetables, by various combinations of materials and flavoring.
- Hence In general, to subject to the action of heat.
- To dress up, alter, color, concoct, or falsely invent (a narrative, statement, excuse, etc.), for some special purpose, as that of making a more favorable impression than the facts of the case warrant; falsify: often followed by up: as, to
cook up a story. - To disappoint; punish. Brockett. [Prov. Eng.]—To cook one's goose, to kill or ruin one; spoil ones plan; do for one.
- To prepare food for eating; act as cook.
- To make the noise uttered by the cuckoo.
- In tobacco manufacturing, to overheat (tobacco) in the process of sweating in bulk, depriving it of the power of heating up again. This happens when the temperature is kept long at 65° F. or raised still higher.
- noun Same as
cook-fish . - Same as
cuck . - To appear for a moment and then suddenly disappear; appear and disappear by turns: as, he cookit round the corner.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb Obs. or R. To make the noise of the cuckoo.
- transitive verb Prov.Eng. To throw.
- noun One whose occupation is to prepare food for the table; one who dresses or cooks meat or vegetables for eating.
- noun (Zoöl.) A fish, the European striped wrasse.
- intransitive verb To prepare food for the table.
- transitive verb To prepare, as food, by boiling, roasting, baking, broiling, etc.; to make suitable for eating, by the agency of fire or heat.
- transitive verb colloq. To concoct or prepare; hence, to tamper with or alter; to garble; -- often with
up .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun cooking A person who prepares food for a living.
- noun cooking The
head cook of amanor house - verb transitive To prepare (
food ) for eating by heating it, often by combining it with otheringredients . - verb intransitive To prepare (unspecified) food for eating by heating it, often by combining it with other
ingredients . - verb intransitive To be being cooked.
- verb intransitive, figuratively To be uncomfortably hot.
- verb transitive, slang To hold onto (a
grenade ) briefly after igniting thefuse , so that it explodes almost immediately after being thrown.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb prepare for eating by applying heat
- verb transform and make suitable for consumption by heating
- verb tamper, with the purpose of deception
- verb prepare a hot meal
- verb transform by heating
- noun English navigator who claimed the east coast of Australia for Britain and discovered several Pacific islands (1728-1779)
- noun someone who cooks food
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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How kin a pusson cook out yet -- not to say, _cook_? "
The Girl at the Halfway House A Story of the Plains Emerson Hough 1890
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Sylvie wondered whether the phrase cook past the point of edible figured prominently in the one for turkey.
Fly Away Home Jennifer Weiner 2010
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Sylvie wondered whether the phrase cook past the point of edible figured prominently in the one for turkey.
Fly Away Home Jennifer Weiner 2010
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When all the ladies who lunch end up at a dude ranch in Reno for six weeks so they can qualify as Nevada residents and get quick divorces, their cook is a tough old cowgirl (played by Marjorie Main, who went on to star in the lucrative “Ma and Pa Kettle” comedies about a clan of hicks) who thinks the ultrafeminine New York women are silly and spoiled.
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When all the ladies who lunch end up at a dude ranch in Reno for six weeks so they can qualify as Nevada residents and get quick divorces, their cook is a tough old cowgirl (played by Marjorie Main, who went on to star in the lucrative “Ma and Pa Kettle” comedies about a clan of hicks) who thinks the ultrafeminine New York women are silly and spoiled.
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I hate to keep delaying it but coming up you're going to see this vehicle have what they call a cook off, which is where some of the munitions inside the vehicle - here it is.
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If the men are working hard on the claim, the cook is also expected to find his own wood and water.
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If the men are working hard on the claim, the cook is also expected to find his own wood and water.
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A spear which takes care of the knife and hunting aspects at once, a large stainless pot to boil water in cook with and could also be used as a signaling device, and rope to navigate the landscape and make traps with.
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A spear which takes care of the knife and hunting aspects at once, a large stainless pot to boil water in cook with and could also be used as a signaling device, and rope to navigate the landscape and make traps with.
vanishedone commented on the word cook
WeirdNet #2 and #4 are identical, for some reason.
November 30, 2008