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Definition of cook

"cook" in the noun sense

1. cook

someone who cooks food

2. Cook, James Cook, Captain Cook, Captain James Cook

English navigator who claimed the east coast of Australia for Britain and discovered several Pacific islands (1728-1779)

"cook" in the verb sense

1. cook

prepare a hot meal

"My husband doesn't cook"

2. cook, fix, ready, make, prepare

prepare for eating by applying heat

"Cook me dinner, please"

"can you make me an omelette?"

"fix breakfast for the guests, please"

3. cook

transform and make suitable for consumption by heating

"These potatoes have to cook for 20 minutes"

4. fudge, manipulate, fake, falsify, cook, wangle, misrepresent

tamper, with the purpose of deception

"Fudge the figures"

"cook the books"

"falsify the data"

5. cook

transform by heating

"The apothecary cooked the medicinal mixture in a big iron kettle"

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Quotations for cook

Hunger is a good cook. [ Gaelic Proverb ]

You starve in a cook's shop. [ Proverb ]

A cook is known by his knife. [ Proverb ]

Hungry men think the cook lazy. [ Proverb ]

An ill cook should have a good cleaver. [ Proverb ]

No man can be a poet
That is not a good cook, to know the palates
And several tastes of the time. [ Ben Jonson ]

He's an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers. [ Proverb ]

She will as soon part with the cook as the porridge. [ Proverb ]

Cook ruffian, able to scald the devil out of his feathers. [ Proverb ]

Happiness - a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion. [ Rousseau ]

They have need of a canny cook that have but one egg for their dinner. [ Proverb ]

It makes me mad when I go to all the trouble of having Martha cook up about a hundred drumsticks, the the guy at the Marineland says, You can't throw chicken to the dolphins. They eat fish. Sure they eat fish, if that's all you give them. Man, wise up. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

There is a hand that has no heart in it, there is a claw or paw, a flipper or fin, a bit of wet cloth to take hold of, a piece of unbaked dough on the cook's trencher, a cold clammy thing we recoil from, or greedy clutch with the heat of sin, which we drop as a burning coal. What a scale from the talon to the horn of plenty, is this human palmleaf! Sometimes it is what a knifeshaped, thin-bladed tool we dare not grasp, or like a poisonous thing we shake off, or unclean member, which, white as it may look, we feel polluted by! [ C. A. Bartol ]

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cook in Scrabble®

The word cook is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 10

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cook in Words With Friends™

The word cook is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 11

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Words within the letters of cook

3 letter words in cook (1 word)

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4 letter words in cook (1 word)

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Shorter words in cook

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