cook
English

Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kʊk/Category:English 1-syllable words#COOKCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#COOK
Category:English terms with audio pronunciation#COOKAudio (US): (file)
Category:English terms with audio pronunciation#COOKAudio (UK) "to cook": (file)
Category:English terms with audio pronunciation#COOKAudio (General Australian): (file)
- (some speakers from Northern England and Ireland) IPA(key): /kuːk/[1]Category:English 1-syllable words#COOKCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#COOK
- (Scotland, Northern Ireland) IPA(key): /kʉk/Category:English 1-syllable words#COOKCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#COOK
Category:English terms with audio pronunciation#COOKAudio (Southern England): (file) - Homophone: cuck (most accents without the foot-strut split)Category:English terms with homophones#COOK
Etymology 1
From Middle EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Middle English#COOKCategory:English terms derived from Middle English#COOK cook, from Old EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Old English#COOKCategory:English terms derived from Old English#COOK cōc (“a cook”), from LatinCategory:English terms derived from Latin#COOK cocus, ultimately from Proto-Indo-EuropeanCategory:English terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European#COOKCategory:English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#COOK *pekʷ- (“to cook, become ripe”).
Cognate with Cimbrian khoch (“cook”), Dutch kok (“cook”), German Koch (“cook”), Luxembourgish Kach (“cook”), Danish kok (“cook”), Icelandic kokkur (“cook”), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk kokk (“cook”), Swedish kock (“cook”). Also compare Proto-West GermanicCategory:English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic#COOKCategory:English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic#COOK *kokōn (“to cook”) (whence North Frisian kööge, kööki (“to cook, boil”), West Frisian koaitsje (“to cook”), Cimbrian khochan, khòchan (“to cook”), Dutch koken (“to cook”), German kochen (“to cook”), Limburgish kaoke, kauche (“to cook”), Luxembourgish kachen (“to cook”), Vilamovian kocha, koha (“to cook”), Yiddish קאָכן (kokhn, “to cook”)), from Late LatinCategory:English terms borrowed from Late Latin#COOKCategory:English terms derived from Late Latin#COOK cocō (“to cook”).
Noun
cook (plural cooks)Category:English lemmas#COOKCategory:English nouns#COOKCategory:English countable nouns#COOKCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#COOKCategory:Pages with entries#COOKCategory:Pages with 3 entries#COOK
- (cookingCategory:en:Cooking#COOK) A person who prepares food.
- Synonym: cooker
- Hyponyms: chef, cordon bleu
- I'm a terrible cook, so I eat a lot of frozen dinners.Category:English terms with usage examples#COOK
- (cookingCategory:en:Cooking#COOK) The head cook of a manor house.
- (cookingCategory:en:Cooking#COOK) The degree or quality of cookedness of food.
- (metalworkingCategory:en:Metalworking#COOK, constructionCategory:en:Construction#COOK) The member of a hot-rivetting team who heats the rivets in a brazier, see rivet.
- (slangCategory:English slang#COOK) One who manufactures certain illegal drugs, especially meth.
- Police found two meth cooks working in the illicit lab.Category:English terms with usage examples#COOK
- 2008, Mel Bradshaw, Victim Impact:
- By late October, the pressure on the Dark Arrows' ecstasy cook had eased. Other suppliers had moved in with product.Category:English terms with quotations#COOK
- 2011, Mackenzie Phillips, High on Arrival:
- Owsley Stanley was a pioneer LSD cook, and the Purple Owsley pill from his now-defunct lab was Dad's prized possession, a rare, potent, druggie collector's item, the alleged inspiration for the Hendrix song “Purple Haze.”Category:English terms with quotations#COOK
- (slangCategory:English slang#COOK) A session of manufacturing certain illegal drugs, especially meth.
- 2011, Neal Hall, Hell To Pay: Hells Angels vs. The Million-Dollar Rat, page 36:
- Punko told Plante he wanted to use a full barrel for the next cook.Category:English terms with quotations#COOK
- A fish, the European striped wrasse, Labrus mixtusCategory:Entries using missing taxonomic name (species)#Labrus%20mixtus.
- (chessCategory:en:Chess#COOK) An unintended solution to a chess problem, considered to spoil the problem.
- 2003 June, Pal Benko, “Endgame Lab”, in Chess Life, volume 58, number 6, New Windsor, N.Y.: United States Chess Federation, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 49:
- The original endgame was one file to the right (Kf1, Kb5 etc.). But there is a cook after 1. c6 dxc6 2. d6 cxd6 3. h4 gxh3 e.p. 4. gxh3 Ka4! 5. h4 b5. My version eliminates the cook.Category:English terms with quotations#COOK
Coordinate terms
(food preparation):
- chef, culinary artist (skilful or lead cook), magirist, magirologist (skilful cook, obs.); sous-chef, prep cook (assistant cook); line cook (team cook); cookess, cookeress (female, uncommon)
(head cook of a manor house):
Derived terms
- autocook
- chief cook and bottle-washer
- chief cook and bottle washer
- cold cook
- cook book
- cookbook
- cook car
- cookdom
- cookee
- cookery
- cookfire
- cookhouse
- cookie
- cookish
- cookless
- cookline
- cookmaid
- cook-off
- cookout
- cook pot
- cookpot
- cookroom
- cookset
- cookshack
- cookshed
- cookshop
- cookstove
- cooktent
- cook-tent
- cook tent
- cooktop
- cook-up
- cookware
- fry cook
- head cook and bottle washer
- head cook and bottle-washer
- McCook
- noncook
- pastrycook
- pastry cook
- plain cook
- short-order cook
- son of a sea-cook
- subcook
- supercook
- undercook
Descendants
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Middle English#COOKCategory:English terms derived from Middle English#COOK coken, from the noun cook. In the slang sense of "proceed with some plan", coined by American rapper from California Lil B in 2010Category:English terms coined by Lil B#COOKCategory:English coinages#COOK and popularized in viral tweets and TikToks in mid-2022.[2]
Verb
cook (third-person singular simple present cooks, present participle cooking, simple past cooked, past participle cooked or (rare, nonstandard) cooken)Category:English lemmas#COOKCategory:English verbs#COOKCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#COOKCategory:Pages with entries#COOKCategory:Pages with 3 entries#COOK
- (ambitransitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#COOKCategory:English intransitive verbs#COOK) To prepare food for eating by heating it, often combining with other ingredients.
- I'm cooking bangers and mash.Category:English terms with usage examples#COOK
- He's in the kitchen, cooking.Category:English terms with usage examples#COOK
- 2015 October 27, Matt Preston, The Simple Secrets to Cooking Everything Better, Plum, →ISBN, page 192:
- You could just use ordinary shop-bought kecap manis to marinade the meat, but making your own is easy, has a far more elegant fragrance and is, above all, such a great brag! Flavouring kecap manis is an intensely personal thing, so try this version now and next time cook the sauce down with crushed, split lemongrass and a shredded lime leaf.Category:English terms with quotations#COOK
- (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#COOK, video gamesCategory:en:Video games#COOK) To smelt.
- 2011 February 10, Oventoaster, “Iron items to Steel”, in Minecraft Forum:
- Your suggestion makes sense. You cook iron with coal to get... iron. The coal is expended, where does it go? inside the iron to turn it into steel in real life. I approveCategory:English terms with quotations#COOK
- (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#COOK) To be cooked.
- The dinner is cooking on the stove.Category:English terms with usage examples#COOK
- (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#COOK, figuratively) To be uncomfortably hot.
- Synonyms: bake, stew
- Look at that poor dog shut up in that car on a day like today - it must be cooking in there.Category:English terms with usage examples#COOK
- (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#COOK, slangCategory:English slang#COOK) To kill, destroy, or otherwise render useless or inoperative through exposure to excessive heat or radiation.
- 2014, Randall Munroe, “Periodic Wall of the Elements”, in What If?, New York, New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 41:
- You would die from what we might call "extremely acute radiation poisoning" – that is, you would be cooked.Category:English terms with quotations#COOK
- 2017 July 6, Howard Tayler, Schlock Mercenary, archived from the original on 20 January 2024:
- "What's coming?" "Dunno yet. Cindy! Active scanning! Pulse hard, but don't cook any friendlies." "We have sensors that can cook people?" "Another reason why warship combat is not an indoor sport."Category:English terms with quotations#COOK
- (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#COOK, slangCategory:English slang#COOK) To execute by electric chair.
- Synonym: fry
- (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#COOK, military slangCategory:English military slang#COOK) To hold on to a grenade briefly after igniting the fuse, so that it explodes almost immediately after being thrown.
- Synonym: cook off
- I always cook my frags, in case they try to grab one and throw it back.Category:English terms with usage examples#COOK
- To concoct or prepare.
- My brother was locked up for cooking meth in his basement.Category:English terms with usage examples#COOK
- Jesse, we need to cook.Category:English terms with usage examples#COOK
- 2006, Frank Spalding, Methamphetamine: The Dangers of Crystal Meth, page 47:
- The process of cooking meth can leave residue on surfaces all over the home, exposing all of its occupants to the drug.Category:English terms with quotations#COOK
- (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#COOK, slangCategory:English slang#COOK) To tamper with or alter; to cook up.
- 1880, Joseph Addison with Richard John Green, “The newspaper”, in Essays of Joseph Addison, London: Roger de Coverly Club, page 154:
- They all of them receive the same advices from abroad, and very often in the same words; but their way of cooking it is so different, that there is no citizen, who has an eye to the public good, who can leave the coffee-house with peace of mind...Category:English terms with quotations#COOK
- 1927, Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados Mysteries:
- So far as Pridger was concerned the game was up. He had cooked the buying, he had cooked the selling, he had systematically pillaged the stock.Category:English terms with quotations#COOK
- (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#COOK, jazzCategory:en:Jazz#COOK, slangCategory:English slang#COOK) To play or improvise in an inspired and rhythmically exciting way. (From 1930s jive talk.)
- Crank up the Coltrane and start cooking!Category:English terms with usage examples#COOK
- 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.”
- (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#COOK, musicCategory:en:Music#COOK, slangCategory:English slang#COOK) To play music vigorously.
- On the Wagner piece, the orchestra was cooking!Category:English terms with usage examples#COOK
- 2012, “Review: Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra won't stand still”, in Los Angeles Times:
- The tempos were swift. The orchestra cooked, reading [conductor] Kahane's mind and swinging with him as one.Category:English terms with quotations#COOK
- (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#COOK, slangCategory:English slang#COOK, humorousCategory:English humorous terms#COOK) 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).
- Hol' up, let that boy cook!Category:English terms with usage examples#COOK
- OK, who let him cook?Category:English terms with usage examples#COOK
- (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#COOK, slangCategory:English slang#COOK, humorousCategory:English humorous terms#COOK) To proceed with some advantageous course of action; (more generally) to be successful.
- We had to deal with some problems at first, but now we're cooking.Category:English terms with usage examples#COOK
- 1977 August 27, Steve Savage, Susan "Suki" Eagan, “Everything You Wanted to Know About Suki, But Were Too Distracted In Chaps to Ask Her”, in Gay Community News, volume 5, number 8, page 9:
- My bar was built by Frazier, Gary Manson, Robert Feck, Jeff Picoli — that's who built my bar. When I hired those people, that's when my bar started cookin'. 'Cause Frazier gets along with anybody — he has a magnetic personality, and he can make the worst piece of shit feel like king for a day.Category:English terms with quotations#COOK
- 2023 April 2, @WolfRMFC, Twitter, archived from the original on 5 October 2023:
- Asensio as AMF might just be the truth man. Bro is cooking and now he has added a goal to top it all off.Category:English terms with quotations#COOK
- 2023 July 30, u/tokyo__driftwood, “How are we feeling about Earthquake ignite chieftain post-patch?”, in Reddit, r/PathOfExileBuilds, archived from the original on 5 October 2023:
- WAIT YOU'RE ACTUALLY COOKING RN. Emberwake ring. Quick math says that's about 21% more damage than just using tawhoa. Ring also gives fire damage and ignite chance, which is great.Category:English terms with quotations#COOK
- 2023 August 6, Noel Sanchez, “Lakers News: Re-Signed LA Starter Reveals He Was Prioritizing A Free Agency Return”, in Sports Illustrated, New York, N.Y.: Arena Group Holdings, Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 5 October 2023:
- With the shot clock winding down, LA's superstars got accustomed to deferring to [Austin] Reaves and letting him cook for either open jumpers or moves that ultimately led to and-one's and free-throw attempts.Category:English terms with quotations#COOK
- 2025 April 11, Kevin Roose, Casey Newton, “Big Tech’s Tariff Chaos + A.I. 2027 + Llama Drama”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
- So Llama 4 immediately zooming up to number 2 on LM Arena would seem to indicate that Meta has really cooked here. They have built this incredible model.Category:English terms with quotations#COOK
- (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#COOK, slangCategory:English slang#COOK, derogatoryCategory:English derogatory terms#COOK, AustraliaCategory:Australian English#COOK) To develop insane or fringe ideas.
- The furlough of workers during The Lockdowns left many with a conspiracy bent ample time to cook.Category:English terms with usage examples#COOK
- (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#COOK, slangCategory:English slang#COOK) To defeat or humiliate.
- He didn't prepare for the debate at all, so his opponent cooked him hard.Category:English terms with usage examples#COOK
- You didn't have to cook him like that!Category:English terms with usage examples#COOK
- (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#COOK, slangCategory:English slang#COOK) To cause to be cooked, i.e. to put in a hopeless situation.
- This new labor law is really cooking working-class people.Category:English terms with usage examples#COOK
- This assignment is cooking me big time.Category:English terms with usage examples#COOK
Conjugation
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| 1st-person singular | cook | cooked | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2nd-person singular | cook, cookest† | cooked, cookedst† | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 3rd-person singular | cooks, cooketh† | cooked | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| subjunctive | cook | cooked | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| participles | cooking | cooked, cooken (rare, nonstandard) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hypernyms
Hyponyms
Derived terms
- cookability
- cookable
- cookaholic
- cook back
- cook-chill
- cook-chilled
- cook-chilling
- cooker
- cooking (noun)
- cooking apple
- cooking box
- cooking lager
- cooking on gas
- cooking plate
- cooking pot
- cooking-pot
- cooking sherry
- cooking show
- cooking soda
- cooking spray
- cooking torch
- cooking utensil
- cooking with gas
- cook out
- cook someone's goose
- cook the books
- cook through
- cook up
- freezer cooking
- home-cook
- home-cooked
- microcook
- miscook
- now you're cooking
- outcook
- overcook
- parcook
- precook
- recook
- red-cook
- slow-cook
- someone's goose is cooked
- there's more than one way to cook an egg
- uncook
- undercook
- what's cooking
Descendants
Translations
- The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.
See also
- mageiricophobia (“fear of cooking”)
Etymology 3
Imitative.
Verb
cook (third-person singular simple present cooks, present participle cooking, simple past and past participle cooked)Category:English lemmas#COOKCategory:English verbs#COOKCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#COOKCategory:Pages with entries#COOKCategory:Pages with 3 entries#COOK
- (obsoleteCategory:English terms with obsolete senses#COOK, rareCategory:English terms with rare senses#COOK, intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#COOK) To make the noise of the cuckoo.
- 1599, Thomas Moffet, The Silkwormes, and their Flies, London: V.S. for Nicholas Ling, →OCLC:
- Constant cuckoos cook on every side.Category:English terms with quotations#COOK
Etymology 4
UnknownCategory:English terms with unknown etymologies#COOK; possibly related to chuck.
Verb
cook (third-person singular simple present cooks, present participle cooking, simple past and past participle cooked)Category:English lemmas#COOKCategory:English verbs#COOKCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#COOKCategory:Pages with entries#COOKCategory:Pages with 3 entries#COOK
- (UKCategory:British English#COOK, dialectCategory:English dialectal terms#COOK, obsoleteCategory:English terms with obsolete senses#COOK) To throw.
- Synonyms: fling, hurl; see also Thesaurus:throw
- 1787, Francis Grose, A Provincial Glossary: With a Collection of Local Proverbs, and Popular Superstitions, London: Printed for S. Hooper, →OCLC, page 37:
- Cook. To throw. Cook me that ball, throw me that ball. Glou.Category:English terms with quotations#COOK
References
- ↑ Walker, John (1791), “Cook”, in A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary […] , London: G. G. J. and J. Robinſon […] and T. Cadell, →OCLC, page 167, column 1 of 1.
- ↑ “Let Him Cook / Let That Boy Cook”, in Know Your Meme, website launched 2007
Middle English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old EnglishCategory:Middle English terms inherited from Old English#COOKCategory:Middle English terms derived from Old English#COOK cōc, from Vulgar LatinCategory:Middle English terms derived from Vulgar Latin#COOK cocus, from LatinCategory:Middle English terms derived from Latin#COOK coquus.
Pronunciation
Noun
cookCategory:Middle English lemmas#COOKCategory:Middle English nouns#COOKCategory:Middle English entries with incorrect language header#COOKCategory:Pages with entries#COOKCategory:Pages with 3 entries#COOK (plural cookes)
Descendants
References
- “cọ̄k, n.(6).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 3 April 2018.
Vietnamese
Etymology
Borrowed from EnglishCategory:Vietnamese terms borrowed from English#COOKCategory:Vietnamese terms derived from English#COOK cook through homophony with cút.
Pronunciation
Noun
cookCategory:Vietnamese lemmas#COOKCategory:Vietnamese nouns#COOKCategory:Vietnamese entries with incorrect language header#COOKCategory:Pages with entries#COOKCategory:Pages with 3 entries#COOK
- (neologismCategory:Vietnamese neologisms#COOK, Internet slangCategory:Vietnamese internet slang#COOK) 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)Category:Vietnamese terms with usage examples#COOKCategory:Requests for translations of Vietnamese usage examples#COOK
