cook

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   to transform and make suitable for consumption by heating

   These potatoes have to cook for 20 minutes.

2. 2
   verb

   to transform by heating

   The apothecary cooked the medicinal mixture in a big iron kettle.

3. 3
   verb

   to prepare a hot meal

   My husband doesn't cook

4. 4
   verb

   to tamper, with the purpose of deception

   I cooked books for the mob.

5. 5
   noun

   A person who prepares food.

   I'm a terrible cook, so I eat a lot of frozen dinners.

6. 6
   noun

   One who manufactures certain illegal drugs, especially meth.

   Police found two meth cooks working in the illicit lab.

7. 7
   noun

   A session of manufacturing certain illegal drugs, especially meth.

   Punko told Plante he wanted to use a full barrel for the next cook.

8. 8
   noun

   An unintended solution to a chess problem, considered to spoil the problem.

   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.

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pekʷ- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *pékʷeti Proto-Italic *kʷekʷō Latin coquō Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Italic *-os Old Latin -os Latin -us Latin coquus Vulgar Latin *cocusbor. Old English cōc Middle English cook English cook From Middle English cook, from Old English cōc (“a cook”), from Latin cocus, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pekʷ- (“to cook, become ripe”). Cognates Cognate with Cimbrian khoch (“cook”), Dutch kok (“cook”), Germ…