Cook (?), v. i. [Of imitative origin.]
To make the noise of the cuckoo.
[Obs. or R.]
Constant cuckoos cook on every side.
The Silkworms (1599).
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Cook (?), v. t. [Etymol. unknown.]
To throw.
[Prov.Eng.] "
Cook me that ball."
Grose.
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Cook (?), n. [AS. coc, fr. l. cocus, coquus, coquus, fr. coquere to cook; akin to Gr. , Skr. pac, and to E. apricot, biscuit, concoct, dyspepsia, precocious. Cf. Pumpkin.]
1.
One whose occupation is to prepare food for the table; one who dresses or cooks meat or vegetables for eating.
2. Zool.
A fish, the European striped wrasse.
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Cook, v. t. [imp. & p.p. Cooked (?); p.pr & vb.n. Cooking.]
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.
[Colloq.]
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.
Addison.
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Cook (?), v. i.
To prepare food for the table.
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