- cook
- cook [kook]n.[ME cok < OE coc < VL cocus < L coquus < coquere, to cook < IE base * pekw-, to cook > Gr peptein, Sans pácate, (he) cooks, OE afigen, fried]a person who prepares food for eatingvt.[ME coken < the n.]1. to prepare (food) for eating by subjecting to heat, as by boiling, baking, frying, etc.2. to subject to heat or to some treatment suggestive of a heating process3. to tamper with; falsify4. Slang to spoil; ruinvi.1. to act or serve as a cook2. to undergo the process of being cooked3. Jazz to play, esp. to improvise, in an inspired and rhythmically exciting way——————cook upInformal to concoct; devise; invent [to cook up an alibi]——————☆ what's cooking?Slang what's happening?
English World dictionary. V. Neufeldt. 2014.