Noun: cook
Sample Sentences
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I'm a terrible cook, so I eat a lot of frozen dinners.
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Police found two meth cooks working in the illicit lab.
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By late October, the pressure on the Dark Arrows' ecstasy cook had eased. Other suppliers had moved in with product. [2008, Mel Bradshaw, Victim Impact:]
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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.” [2011, Mackenzie Phillips, High on Arrival:]
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Punko told Plante he wanted to use a full barrel for the next cook. [2011, Neal Hall, Hell To Pay: Hells Angels vs. The Million-Dollar Rat, page 36:]
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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. [2003 June, Pal Benko, “Endgame Lab”, in Chess Life, volume 58, number 6, New Windsor, N.Y.: United States Chess Federation, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 49:]
Nouns inflected like cook
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *pekʷ-
3. Proto-Indo-European *-eti
4. Proto-Indo-European *pékʷeti
5. Proto-Italic *kʷekʷō
6. Latin *quoquō
7. Latin coquō
8. Proto-Indo-European *-ós
9. Proto-Indo-European *-ós
10. Proto-Indo-European *-ós
11. Proto-Indo-European *-ós
12. Proto-Indo-European *-os
13. Proto-Italic *-os
14. Old Latin -os
15. Latin -us
16. Latin coquus
17. Vulgar Latin *cocusbor.
18. Old English cōc
19. Middle English cook
20. English cook
21. From Middle English cook, from Old English cōc (“a cook”), from Latin cocus, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pekʷ- (“to cook, become ripe”).
22. Cognates
23. 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”). See: Middle English Nouns '
cook', Old English Nouns '
cōc', Latin Nouns '
cocus', Dutch Nouns '
kok', German Nouns '
Koch', Danish Nouns '
kok', Icelandic Nouns '
kokkur', Swedish Nouns '
kock', German Nouns '
kochen'.