cook
A person who prepares foodA person who prepares food.
» Is your wife a good cook?
Ist deine Frau eine gute Köchin? — Sudajaengi
Kann deine Frau gut kochen? — danepo
Твоя жена хорошо готовит? — afyodor
Ваша жена хорошо готовит? — afyodor
Твоя дружина добре готує? — deniko
CK · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FRMeaning
8 sensesA person who prepares food.
I'm a terrible cook, so I eat a lot of frozen dinners.
Koch, Köchin
по́варpóvar, повари́хаpovaríxa, кокkok
ку́харkúxar, ку́харка f/куха́ркаkúxarka
someone who cooks food
The head cook of a manor house.
The degree or quality of cookedness of food.
The member of a hot-rivetting team who heats the rivets in a brazier, see rivet.
(slang)One who manufactures certain illegal drugs, especially meth.
Police found two meth cooks working in the illicit lab.
(slang)A session of manufacturing certain illegal drugs, especially meth.
A fish, the European striped wrasse, Labrus mixtus.
An unintended solution to a chess problem, considered to spoil the problem.
Examples
3477 sentencesIs your wife a good cook?
Твоя дружина добре готує? — deniko
ruТвоя жена хорошо готовит? — afyodor
deIst deine Frau eine gute Köchin? — Sudajaengi
This is how I cook fish.
Ось як я готую рибу. — Anjy
ruВот как я готовлю рыбу. — Biga
You must be a good cook.
Ти, мабуть, добрий кухар. — deniko
ruТы, должно быть, хороший повар. — phenne
Her daughter is bad at cooking.
Її дочка погано готує. — deniko
ruЕё дочь плохо готовит. — marafon
deIhre Tochter kann nicht kochen. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
Her husband is an excellent cook.
Її чоловік чудовий повар. — Internecivus
ruЕё муж превосходный повар. — paul_lingvo
deIhr Mann ist ein hervorragender Koch. — Zaghawa
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English cook, from Old English cōc (“a cook”), from Latin cocus, ultimately frFrom Middle English cook, from Old English cōc (“a cook”), from Latin cocus, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pekʷ- (“to cook, become ripe”).
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Forms
plural: cooksSynonyms
4 synonyms- English navigator who claimed the east coast of Australia for Britain and discovered several Pacific islands (1728-1779):James CookCaptain CookCaptain James Cook
Word family
37 related wordsCollocations
12 patterns- cook dinner
- a good cook
- good at cooking
- how to cook
- better better cook
- good cook
- better cook than
- cook chinese food
- cook dinner for
- very good cook
- to cook dinner
- to cook chinese