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name
An English surname originating as an occupation for a cook or seller of cooked food. Famously held by James Cook, English captain and explorer of the Pacific Ocean, and for whom the Cook Islands, Cook Strait and Mount Cook were named.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
name
A placename:
A locale in the United States:
A township in Sac County, Iowa.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A placename:
A locale in the United States:
A township in Decatur County, Kansas.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
name
A placename:
A locale in the United States:
A minor city in Saint Louis County, Minnesota; named for railroad official Wirth Cook.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Synonyms: none provided
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name
A placename:
A locale in the United States:
A village in Johnson County, Nebraska; named for landowner Andrew Cook.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A placename:
A locale in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Madison Township, Fayette County, Ohio; named for landowner Matthew S. Cook.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A placename:
A locale in the United States:
A township in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
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name
A placename:
A suburb of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia; named for James Cook.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A placename:
A local government area in Far North Queensland, Australia; in full, the Shire of Cook.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A placename:
A ghost town in South Australia, Australia; named for Joseph Cook, 6th Prime Minister of Australia.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A placename:
A river in Westland district, West Coast, New Zealand.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: Weheka
Antonyms: none provided
name
An electoral division in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
A person who prepares food.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: cooking, food, lifestyle
Synonyms: cooker
Antonyms: none provided
noun
The head cook of a manor house.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: cooking, food, lifestyle
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noun
The degree or quality of cookedness of food.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: cooking, food, lifestyle
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noun
The member of a hot-rivetting team who heats the rivets in a brazier, see rivet.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: arts, business, construction, crafts, engineering, hobbies, lifestyle, manufacturing, metallurgy, metalworking, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
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noun
One who manufactures certain illegal drugs, especially meth.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang
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noun
A session of manufacturing certain illegal drugs, especially meth.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang
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noun
A fish, the European striped wrasse, Labrus mixtus.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
An unintended solution to a chess problem, considered to spoil the problem.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: board-games, chess, games
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verb
To prepare food for eating, typically by heating it, combining it with other ingredients, seasoning it, preparing it for serving, etc.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: ambitransitive
Qualifier: generally
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To apply heat to food in the course of preparing it, particularly in a way that transforms it rather than simply making it warmer.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: specifically, transitive
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verb
To undergo cooking.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
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verb
To smelt.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Topics: video-games
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verb
To be uncomfortably hot.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: figuratively, intransitive
Synonyms: bake, stew
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To kill, destroy, or otherwise render useless or inoperative through exposure to excessive heat or radiation.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang, transitive
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verb
To execute by electric chair.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang, transitive
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Synonyms: fry
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To hold on to a grenade briefly after igniting the fuse, so that it explodes almost immediately after being thrown.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang, transitive
Topics: government, military, politics, war
Synonyms: cook off
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To concoct or prepare.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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verb
To tamper with or alter; to cook up.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang, transitive
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verb
To play or improvise in an inspired and rhythmically exciting way. (From 1930s jive talk.)
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive, slang
Qualifier: jazz
Synonyms: none provided
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verb
To play music vigorously.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive, slang
Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music
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verb
To proceed with some plan or course of action, or develop some train of thought towards its conclusion (whether this is advantageous, or comical, or digging into a hole).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: humorous, intransitive, slang
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verb
To proceed with some plan or course of action, or develop some train of thought towards its conclusion (whether this is advantageous, or comical, or digging into a hole).
To proceed with some advantageous course of action; (more generally) to be successful.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: humorous, intransitive, slang
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To proceed with some plan or course of action, or develop some train of thought towards its conclusion (whether this is advantageous, or comical, or digging into a hole).
To develop insane or fringe ideas.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Australia, derogatory, humorous, intransitive, slang
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verb
To defeat or humiliate.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang, transitive
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verb
To cause to be cooked, i.e. to put in a hopeless situation.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang, transitive
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Antonyms: none provided
verb
To make the noise of the cuckoo.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive, obsolete, rare
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verb
To throw.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, dialectal, obsolete
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Synonyms: fling, hurl, bung, cast, chuck, chunk, cook, dash, dump, feck, jerk, heave, hield, hoy, huck, hurtle, launch, lob, peck, peg, pick, pitch, precipitate, project, quoit, shy, slight, skew, sling, thrill, throw, toss, traject, warp, whang, whip, whop, wing, yeet
Antonyms: none provided
noun
someone who cooks food
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: skilled worker, trained worker, skilled workman
Narrower terms: chef, cookie, cooky, fry cook, preserver, roaster, seasoner, Farmer, Fannie Farmer, Fannie Merritt Farmer
noun
English navigator who claimed the east coast of Australia for Britain and discovered several Pacific islands (1728-1779)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: James Cook, Captain Cook, Captain James Cook
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: navigator
verb
transform and make suitable for consumption by heating
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: change integrity
Narrower terms: bake, brown, coddle, souse, microwave, micro-cook, zap, nuke, blanch, parboil, overcook, fricassee, stew, roast, braise, fry, grill, steam, pressure-cook, poach
verb
transform by heating
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: change, alter, modify
verb
prepare for eating by applying heat
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: fix, ready, make, prepare
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: create from raw material, create from raw stuff
Narrower terms: preserve, keep, dress, dress out, deglaze, scallop, escallop, flambe, put on, devil, precook, whip up, whomp up, concoct, cook up, lard
verb
prepare a hot meal
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: create from raw material, create from raw stuff
verb
tamper, with the purpose of deception
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: fudge, manipulate, fake, falsify, wangle, misrepresent
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: cheat, chisel
Narrower terms: juggle
History
From cook. Doublet of Koch and Kok.
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 *-ós Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Italic *-os Old 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”).
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 *-ós Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Italic *-os Old Latin -os Latin -us Latin coquus Vulgar Latin *cocusbor. Old English cōc Middle English cook Middle English coken English cook From Middle English coken, from the noun cook. In the slang sense of "proceed with some plan", coined by American rapper from California Lil B in 2010 and popularized in viral tweets and TikToks in mid-2022.
Imitative.
Unknown; possibly related to chuck.
Across languages
531 source translations are retained for this English entry.
