COOK

Cook

A cook is a person who prepares food for consumption. In Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Canada this profession requires government approval .

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cook

Noun

  1. A person who prepares food for a living.
  2. The head cook of a manor house
  3. A fish, the European striped wrasse.

Verb

  1. To prepare (food) for eating by heating it, often by combining it with other ingredients.
    I'm cooking bangers and mash.
  2. To prepare (unspecified) food for eating by heating it, often by combining it with other ingredients.
    He's in the kitchen, cooking.
  3. To be being cooked.
    The dinner is cooking on the stove.
  4. To be uncomfortably hot.
    Look at that poor dog shut up in that car on a day like today - it must be cooking in there.
  5. To hold onto (a grenade) briefly after igniting the fuse, so that it explodes almost immediately after being thrown.
    ''I always cook my frags, in case they try to grab one and throw it back.
  6. To concoct or prepare; to tamper with or alter; to cook up.

Verb (etymology 2)

  1. To make the noise of the cuckoo.

Verb (etymology 3)

  1. To throw.


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