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cook

17 ENTRIES FOUND:
  1. 1) cook (noun)
  2. 2) cook (verb)
  3. Cook (biographical name)
  4. cook cheese (noun)
  5. cook-general (noun)
  6. cook off (verb)
  7. cook-off (noun)
  8. cook wrasse (noun)
  9. Cook Inlet (geographical name)
  10. Cook Islands (geographical name)
  11. Cook Strait (geographical name)
  12. Cook's tour (noun)
  13. bull cook (noun)
  14. fry cook (noun)
  15. Northern Cook Islands (geographical name)
  16. pressure cooker (noun)
  17. Cook, Mount (geographical name)

1cook

noun \ˈku̇k\

Definition of COOK

1
: a person who prepares food for eating
2
: a technical or industrial process comparable to cooking food; also : a substance so processed
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Examples of COOK

  1. <the hearty meals prepared by the cook at summer camp>

Origin of COOK

Middle English, from Old English cōc, from Latin coquus, from coquere to cook; akin to Old English āfigen fried, Greek pessein to cook
First Known Use: before 12th century

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Other Food Terms

Reuben, calamari, chuck, curry, edamame, foie gras, hummus, leaven, nonpareil, peel

Rhymes with COOK

book, brook, chook, Cook, crook, hook, look, nook, rook, schnook, shook, snook, stook

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