noun.
One whose occupation is the cooking of food.
To make fit for eating by the action of heat, as in boiling, stewing, roasting, baking, etc.; especially, to prepare in an appetizing way, as meats or vegetables, by various combinations of materials and flavoring.
Hence In general, to subject to the action of heat.
To dress up, alter, color, concoct, or falsely invent (a narrative, statement, excuse, etc.), for some special purpose, as that of making a more favorable impression than the facts of the case warrant; falsify: often followed by up: as, to cook up a story.
To disappoint; punish. Brockett. [Prov. Eng.]—To cook one's goose, to kill or ruin one; spoil ones plan; do for one.
To prepare food for eating; act as cook.
To make the noise uttered by the cuckoo.
In tobacco manufacturing, to overheat (tobacco) in the process of sweating in bulk, depriving it of the power of heating up again. This happens when the temperature is kept long at 65° F. or raised still higher.
noun.
Same as cook-fish.
Same as cuck.
To appear for a moment and then suddenly disappear; appear and disappear by turns: as, he cookit round the corner.