cook
/kʊk/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.65 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The head cook of a manor house.
noun
The degree or quality of cookedness of food.
noun
An unintended solution to a chess problem, considered to spoil the problem.
Example Sentences
- "I'm a terrible cook, so I eat a lot of frozen dinners."
- "Police found two meth cooks working in the illicit lab."
- "By late October, the pressure on the Dark Arrows' ecstasy cook had eased. Other suppliers had moved in with product."
- "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.”"
- "Punko told Plante he wanted to use a full barrel for the next cook."
- "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 *quoquō Latin coquō Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Italic *-os Archaic 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”), 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”), Vilamovian kocha, koha (“to cook”), Yiddish קאָכן (kokhn, “to cook”)), from Late Latin cocō (“to cook”).
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Word Breakdown
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Subject
Wiktionary places this term in People.
Inflected Forms
cooks (plural)
cooks (present, singular)
cooking (participle, present)
cooked (past)
cooked (participle, past)
cooken (nonstandard, participle)
no-table-tags (table tags)
glossary (inflection template)
cooked (first person, past)
cookest (archaic, present)
cooked (past, second person)
cookedst (archaic, past)