cook
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
cook/kʊk/
▶verb
- 1 prepare (food) by mixing, combining, and heating the ingredients.
■ (of food) be heated so as to reach an edible state.
- 2 informal alter dishonestly.
■ (cook something up) concoct a clever or devious story, excuse, or plan.
- 3 (be cooking) informal be happening or planned.
- 4 N. Amer. informal perform or proceed vigorously or very well.
– phrases
cook someone's goose informal spoil someone's plans.
cook someone's goose informal spoil someone's plans.
– derivatives
cookable adjective,
cooking noun.
cookable adjective,
cooking noun.
– origin OE cōc (n.), from pop. L. cocus, from L. coquus.
'cook' also found in these Oxford entries:
bake
- barbecue
- biscuit
- boil
- broast
- broil
- buccaneer
- casserole
- chef
- coddle
- concoct
- cook-chill
- Cook's tour
- cordon bleu
- decoct
- demon
- fricassée
- fry
- gratiné
- griddle
- grill
- high
- khansama
- kitchen
- madeleine
- meal
- microwave
- nuke
- overcook
- parboil
- poach
- pot roast
- praline
- precocious
- precook
- pressure cooker
- roast
- scramble
- seethe
- self-catering
- short-order
- spit-roast
- steam
- stew
- sweat
- toast
- tweeny
- Typhoid Mary
- undercook
