Cook
Cook (kok) , intransitive verb
[Of imitative origin.]
To make the noise of the cuckoo. [Obsolete or Rare]
Constant cuckoos cook on every side.
Cook (kok) , transitive verb
[Etymol. unknown.]
To throw. [Prov.English]
Cook me that ball.
Cook (kok) , noun
[Anglo-Saxon cōc, from Latin cocus, coquus, coquus, from coquere to cook; akin to Greek pe`ptein, Sanskrit pac, and to English apricot, biscuit, concoct, dyspepsia, precocious. Compare Pumpkin.]
1.
One whose occupation is to prepare food for the table; one who dresses or cooks meat or vegetables for eating.
2.
(Zoology) A fish, the European striped wrasse.
Cook (kokt) , transitive verb
1.
To prepare, as food, by boiling, roasting, baking, broiling, etc.; to make suitable for eating, by the agency of fire or heat.
2.
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. [Colloquial]
They all of them receive the same advices from abroad, and very often in the same words; but their way of cooking it is so different.
Cook (kok) , intransitive verb
To prepare food for the table.