Cook

Noun

 * 1) A person who prepares food for a living.

Verb

 * 1)  To prepare (food) for eating by heating it, often by combining it with other ingredients.
 * 2)  To prepare (unspecified) food for eating by heating it, often by combining it with other ingredients.
 * 3)  To become ready for eating by the application of heat.
 * 4)  To be uncomfortably hot.

Adjectives for Cook
excellent; peerless; lusty; furious; surprised; sleepy-eyed; excited; pious; covetous; studious; cursed; outlandish; splendid; superb;

Adverbs for Cook
excellently; arduously; outlandishly; superbly; peerlessly; unsurpassingly; appetizingly; deliciously; exotically; delicately; tastefully; experimentally.

Synonyms for Cook

 * chef
 * cordon bleu
 * sous-chef
 * bake, stew

Derived terms
cookbook; cookery; cooking; cook the books; cook up; cookware

Hypernyms

 * concoct, contrive, devise, make up, plan, prepare

Hyponyms

 * Troponyms: bake, barbecue, boil, braise, fry, grill, microwave, poach, roast, scramble, steam, stew

Thesaurus
bake, baker, ball up, barbecue, baste, be in heat, boil, bollix, bollix up, braise, brew, broil, brown, bugger, bugger up, burn, chafe, chambermaid, chaperon, chef, chef de cuisine, chief cook, choke, coddle, combust, companion, culinarian, culinary artist, curry, defeat, devil, dish, do, do for, do in, do to perfection, doctor, duenna, electric-heat, fake, fix, flame, flame up, flare, flare up, flicker, flush, foment, foul up, fricassee, frizz, frizzle, fry, fry cook, gas-heat, gasp, gentlewoman, girl, glow, griddle, grill, heat, hired girl, hot, hot up, hot-air-heat, hot-water-heat, housemaid, incandesce, juggle, kitchener, kitchenmaid, knock out, lady-help, lady-in-waiting, live-in maid, live-out maid, load, louse up, maid, maidservant, manipulate, melt, mess up, muck up, mull, nursemaid, oven-bake, overheat, pack, pan, pan-broil, pant, parboil, parch, parlormaid, pastry chef, pastrycook, plant, play hell with, play hob with, poach, preheat, prepare, prepare food, radiate heat, recook, reheat, retouch, rig, roast, salt, saute, scald, scallop, scorch, screw up, scullery maid, scuttle, sear, seethe, servant girl, servitress, settle, shimmer with heat, shirr, shoot down, short-order cook, simmer, sink, smolder, smother, snafu, snarl up, sophisticate, soubrette, spark, stack, steam, stew, stifle, stir-fry, stoke up, suffocate, superheat, sweat, swelter, tamper with, tepefy, toast, torpedo, tweeny, undo, upstairs maid, waiting maid, warm, warm over, warm up, wench

Etymology

 * 1) From, from  coc:, from , from  coquus:, from . Cognate with  kokk:,  kok:,  Koch:,  kok:,  kock:,  kokkur:.
 * 2) From  coken:, from  *undefined: (compare  gecocsian:, gecocnian:), from, from  coquo:, from . Cognate with  koken:,  kochen:,  koka:,  afigen:.

Noun

 * Arabic: طباخ
 * Armenian:
 * Basque: sukaldari
 * Bulgarian: готвач
 * Catalan: cuiner
 * Chechen: юургйийриг
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 廚師, 厨师
 * Croatian: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Ewe: nuɖala
 * Finnish: kokki (usually male), keittäjä (usually female)
 * French: ,
 * German: ,
 * Greek: ,
 * Hebrew: טבח, טבחית
 * Hindi: रसोइया
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian: ,


 * Japanese: 調理師, 料理人, コック, シェフ
 * Kurdish:
 * Latin:, , , cocturarius
 * Maltese: ,
 * Navajo:
 * Norwegian:
 * Persian:, پزنده
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, , (ship's cook)
 * Scottish Gaelic: bruich
 * Slovene: ,
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: వంటమనిషి (vantamanishi) (both genders), వంటవాడు (vantavaadu) (male)
 * Volapük: kvisinan,  hikvisinan,  jikvisinan

Verb

 * Arabic: طبخ
 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian: готвя
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 做菜
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Ewe: ɖa
 * Finnish: keittää, laittaa ruokaa, kokata, tehdä ruokaa
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: ,
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: पकाना
 * Hungarian:
 * Ido:
 * Italian:


 * Japanese: 料理
 * Jèrriais: coutchi
 * Kurdish:
 * Lao:
 * Latin:
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, приготовить ,
 * Slovene: kuhati / skuhati
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: kupika
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: వండు (vandu)
 * Urdu: پکانا


 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian: готвя
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Ewe: ɖa
 * Finnish: keittää, laittaa ruokaa, kokata, tehdä ruokaa
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: ,
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:


 * Ido: koquadar
 * Italian:
 * Kurdish:
 * Persian:, پخت و پز
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, приготовить
 * Slovene: kuhati / skuhati
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: వండు (vandu)


 * Armenian:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: kuiriĝi
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:


 * Italian:
 * Persian:, پخته
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Slovene: kuhati se / skuhati se
 * Swedish: ,
 * Telugu: ఉడుకు (uduku)


 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * : kochend heiß
 * Greek: ψήνομαι


 * Hungarian:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Slovene: cvreti se
 * Swedish:, stekas

Noun

 * 1) a cook

Descendants

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