cook

Speech parts

1. cook - Noun

2. cook - Verb

3. Cook - Proper noun

Meaning

To make the noise of the cuckoo.

To throw.

One whose occupation is to prepare food for the table; one who dresses or cooks meat or vegetables for eating.

A fish, the European striped wrasse.

To prepare, as food, by boiling, roasting, baking, broiling, etc.; to make suitable for eating, by the agency of fire or heat.

To concoct or prepare; hence, to tamper with or alter; to garble; -- often with up; as, to cook up a story; to cook an account.

To prepare food for the table.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

prepare fix stew bake fry make chef grill fudge ready fake manipulate boil roast falsify
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Antonyms

clear display copy distant fail demonstrate
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Hypernyms

skilled worker change human person individual animal

Hyponyms

brown fry keep dress chef grill

Phrases with the word

cook the books cook someone's goose let him cook Cook-Levin theorem Cook's theorem cook-maid

Derivatives

cooking

Examples

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist. G. K. Chesterton

I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food. W. C. Fields

At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since. Salvador Dalí

Hunger is the best cook. Czech Proverb

You cannot cook your eggs with wind. Lebanese Proverb

There is never enmity between the cook and the butler. Italian Proverb

Close letter words and terms

cooingly cooja coojong cook a bite to eat cook a light meal cook back