Definitions for Cook

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Cook cook

Spelling: [koo k]

IPA: /kʊk/

Cook is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 16 anagrams from letters in Cook (ckoo).

Definitions for Cook

noun

1. a person who cooks:
2. Frederick Albert, 1865–1940, U.S. physician and polar explorer.
3. George Cram [kram] /kræm/ (Show IPA), 1873–1924, U.S. novelist, dramatist, and poet.
4. Captain James, 1728–79, English navigator and explorer in the S Pacific, Antarctic Ocean, and along the coasts of Australia and New Zealand.
5. Sir Joseph, 1860–1947, Australian statesman, born in England: prime minister 1913–14.
6. Mount. Also called Aorangi. a mountain in New Zealand, on South Island. 12,349 feet (3764 meters).

Idioms

1. cook one's goose. goose (def 11).
2. cook the books, Slang. to manipulate the financial records of a company, organization, etc., so as to conceal profits, avoid taxes, or present a false financial report to stockholders.

Verb phrases

1. cook off, (of a shell or cartridge) to explode or fire without being triggered as a result of overheating in the chamber of the weapon.
2. cook up, Informal. to concoct or contrive, often dishonestly: to falsify:

verb (used with object)

1. to prepare (food) by the use of heat, as by boiling, baking, or roasting.
2. to subject (anything) to the application of heat.
3. Slang. to ruin; spoil.
4. Informal. to falsify, as accounts:

verb (used without object)

1. to prepare food by the use of heat.
2. (of food) to undergo cooking.
3. Slang. to be full of activity and excitement: to perform, work, or do in just the right way and with energy and enthusiasm: to be in preparation; develop: to take place; occur; happen:
4. to hide, especially outdoors, as by crouching down behind a hedge.

Origin of Cook

before 1000; (noun) Middle English cok(e), Old English cōc (compare Old Norse kokkr, German Koch, Dutch kok) Latin cocus, coquus, derivative of coquere to cook; akin to Greek péptein (see

Examples for Cook

An older white woman, stopped cook to ask, in strong New York accent, “Oh no, did they let him off?”

“It's insane to see what the extreme version of that type of helpless anger combined with mental illness can create,” cook wrote.

Now say, 'Emma, you are one in a million, and a cook besides.'

"So is the cook usefully employed while preparing dinner," said Philip.

His father is away this week and there was no one in the house but the cook.

I've knocked about in all sorts of places, and it won't be the first time I've served as cook.

cook, stirring often, for 10 minutes or until the sugar is completely dissolved and the mixture is smooth.

Continue to cook until the sauce has reduced by three quarters.

cook the potatoes and onions in the water until they are soft.

In his response, cook spoke sensitively about the very real danger present in the general pickup community.