cooker

CEFRB1

/ˈkʊkɚ/

noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A device used for cooking food.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    An appliance or utensil for cooking food.

Examples

  • Did you remember to turn the cooker off?

  • Turn on the rice cooker, please.

At a glance

Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5
Synonyms
1

Also pronounced

  • /ˈkuːkə/

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. One who cooks.

  2. A cookstove.

  3. The container in which recreational drugs are prepared.

More examples

In context

  • […] I am a true † cooker of men, that is to ſay, I not only dreſs and prepare ſuch vile eatables as theſe, but that green creature, called man, I kill, and cut in pieces, aye, and devour him too, heart and all.

  • And, if we may believe the tale, / Her canny hand will ſcarcely fail, / Whate’er ſhe tries, to help or heal, / She’ll ſeldom blunder; / If ſhe be cooker of the kail, / She’ll gar us wonder.

  • She was, in sooth, a most delicious cooker of delicious tit-bits.

Synonyms

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Origin

noun

From cook + -er (agent noun suffix) or + -er (patient suffix) (apple; one who is cooked).