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English (Yorkshire)
English (Yorkshire) : occupational name for a maker of pots and pans, from an agent derivative of Middle English pail(e) (Old French paelle ‘frying pan’, ‘cooking pan’).
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English
English : metonymic occupational name for a soapmaker, from Middle English sÅpe ‘soap’.English : from the Old English personal name Soppa.German : metonymic occupational name for a cook, from Middle High German soppe, suppe ‘soup’, ‘stock’, ‘meal’.
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Jewish (from Poland)
Jewish (from Poland) : Polish spelling of the occupational surname Mintzer ‘moneyer’.English : unexplained. Perhaps a metonymic occupational name for a butcher, a cook, or a warrior, from a derivative of Middle English mince(n) ‘to mince’, ‘to cut into small pieces’.
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English
English : from a byname meaning ‘servant of the cook’ (see Cook).
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English (chiefly West Midlands)
English (chiefly West Midlands) : habitational name from a place in Worcestershire named Cooksey, from the genitive case of the Old English personal name Cucu (perhaps a byname from Old English cwicu ‘lively’) + Old English ēg ‘island’.
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English
English : unexplained; possibly the same as 2.Probably an Americanized spelling of French Sain, a metonymic occupational name for a charcutier, someone who prepared cooked meats, from Old French sain ‘fat’.
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English
English : variant of Cook.Americanized spelling of German Koke or Koch.
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English
English : variant of Kestel.German : from Middle High German kezzel ‘kettle’, ‘cauldron’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a maker of copper cooking vessels, or alternatively a topographic and habitational name, from the same word in the sense ‘(ring-shaped) hollow’.Dutch and Belgian : habitational name from any of the places so named in the Belgian provinces of Antwerp and Limburg or the Dutch province of North Brabant.
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English
English : from Old English cÅc ‘cook’ (Latin coquus) + mann ‘man’, hence an occupational name for the servant of a cook.English : variant of Cocker 2.
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English
English : nickname for a merry person or an early riser, from Middle English lavero(c)k, lark (Old English lÄwerce). It was perhaps also a metonymic occupational name for someone who netted the birds and sold them for the cooking pot.English : from a medieval personal name, a byform of Lawrence, derived by back-formation from Larkin.
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English (mainly Lancashire)
English (mainly Lancashire) : patronymic from Cook.
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American, British, English, Latin
Occupational Name; One who Cooks Food
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English, etc.
English, etc. : variant spelling of Cook.
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English
English : variant of or patronymic from Cook.
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English (Somerset and Devon)
English (Somerset and Devon) : habitational name from Coxley, Somerset, named from Old English cÅc ‘cook’ + lÄ“ah ‘woodland clearing’. Mills notes that the wife of a cook of the royal household is recorded in Domesday Book (1086) as holding lands near Wells in Somerset.
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English
English : nickname from Middle English finch ‘finch’ (Old English finc). In the Middle Ages this bird had a reputation for stupidity. It may perhaps also in part represent a metonymic occupational name for someone who caught finches and sold them as songsters or for the cooking pot. The surname is found in all parts of Britain but is most common in Lancashire. See also Fink.
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English : occupational name for a cook, a seller of cooked meats, or a keeper of an eating house, from Old English cÅc (Latin coquus). There has been some confusion with Cocke.Irish and Scottish : usually identical in origin with the English name, but in some cases a reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Cúg ‘son of Hugo’ (see McCook).In North America Cook has absorbed examples of cognate and semantically equivalent names from other languages, such as German and Jewish Koch.Erroneous translation of French Lécuyer (see Lecuyer).Francis Cooke (died 1663) and his eldest son John were passengers on the Mayflower in 1621; they were joined two years later by Francis’s wife and other children. In the words of William Bradford, when he died he had ‘lived to see his children’s children have children’.
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English : occupational name for a cook, Anglo-Norman French k(i)eu (from Latin coquus).English (of Norman origin) : habitational name from Caieu, a lost place near Boulogne in Northern France.English : habitational name from a place in Middlesex, now part of Greater London, probably named with Old English cÇ£g ‘key’, ‘projection’ + hÅh ‘spur of land’.Irish : Ulster variant of McHugh.
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A book of directions and receipts for cooking; a cookery book.
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Provided or cooked with truffles; stuffed with truffles; as, a truffled turkey.
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See Cooky.
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A soft indented cake cooked in a waffle iron.
p. pr & vb. n.
of Cook
v. t.
To do less thoroughly than is requisite; specifically, to cook insufficiently; as, to underdo the meat; -- opposed to overdo.
n.
A small, slender nematoid worm (Trichina spiralis) which, in the larval state, is parasitic, often in immense numbers, in the voluntary muscles of man, the hog, and many other animals. When insufficiently cooked meat containing the larvae is swallowed by man, they are liberated and rapidly become adult, pair, and the ovoviviparous females produce in a short time large numbers of young which find their way into the muscles, either directly, or indirectly by means of the blood. Their presence in the muscles and the intestines in large numbers produces trichinosis.
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A female cook.
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Food for human beings, esp. when it is cooked or prepared for the table; that which supports human life; provisions; sustenance; meat; viands.
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A cook.
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of Cooky
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Baked in a scallop; cooked with crumbs.
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A female servant or maid who dresses provisions and assists the cook.
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of Cook
v. t.
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.
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Alt. of Cookie
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A room for cookery; a kitchen; the galley or caboose of a ship.
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To skewer; to make fast, as the wings of a fowl to the body in cooking it.
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One whose occupation is to prepare food for the table; one who dresses or cooks meat or vegetables for eating.
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A tree (Cookia punctata) of the Orange family, growing in China and the East Indies; also, its fruit, which is about the size of a large grape, and has a hard rind and a peculiar flavor.