cook

CEFRA1

/kʊk/

verb · noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    verb

    To prepare food by heating it.

  2. 02

    noun

    A person whose job is preparing food.

Examples

  • Do you know how to cook meat?

  • It's so hot that you could cook an egg on the hood of a car.

At a glance

Sits at A1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
2
Citations
5
Synonyms
5

Also pronounced

  • /kuːk/

Deep Dive

verb

Extra meanings

  1. The degree or quality of cookedness of food.

  2. The head cook of a manor house.

noun

Extra meaning

  1. A person who prepares food.

More examples

In context

  • Where did you learn to cook?

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

  • Police found two meth cooks working in the illicit lab.

Synonyms

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Origin

verb

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”), 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 Germanic *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”), Vilamo...