Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to cook
Participle: cooked
Gerund: cooking
Cognates
-
Indicative
Present
| I | cook |
| you | cook |
| he;she;it | cooks |
| we | cook |
| you | cook |
| they | cook |
Perfect
| I | have cooked |
| you | have cooked |
| he;she;it | has cooked |
| we | have cooked |
| you | have cooked |
| they | have cooked |
Past
| I | cooked |
| you | cooked |
| he;she;it | cooked |
| we | cooked |
| you | cooked |
| they | cooked |
Pluperfect
| I | had cooked |
| you | had cooked |
| he;she;it | had cooked |
| we | had cooked |
| you | had cooked |
| they | had cooked |
Future
| I | will cook |
| you | will cook |
| he;she;it | will cook |
| we | will cook |
| you | will cook |
| they | will cook |
Future Perfect
| I | will have cooked |
| you | will have cooked |
| he;she;it | will have cooked |
| we | will have cooked |
| you | will have cooked |
| they | will have cooked |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | cook |
| you | cook |
| he;she;it | cook |
| we | cook |
| you | cook |
| they | cook |
Perfect
| I | have cooked |
| you | have cooked |
| he;she;it | have cooked |
| we | have cooked |
| you | have cooked |
| they | have cooked |
Imperfect
| I | cooked |
| you | cooked |
| he;she;it | cooked |
| we | cooked |
| you | cooked |
| they | cooked |
Pluperfect
| I | had cooked |
| you | had cooked |
| he;she;it | had cooked |
| we | had cooked |
| you | had cooked |
| they | had cooked |
Conditional
Present
| I | would cook |
| you | would cook |
| he;she;it | would cook |
| we | would cook |
| you | would cook |
| they | would cook |
Perfect
| I | would have cooked |
| you | would have cooked |
| he;she;it | would have cooked |
| we | would have cooked |
| you | would have cooked |
| they | would have cooked |
Imperative
| you | cook |
| we | Let's cook |
| you | cook |
Verbs conjugated like 'cook'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'cook'
book,
coak,
cock,
conk,
coo,
cool,
coom,
coon,
coop,
cork,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- of a liquid
- boil
- to prepare for eating by heating
- do
- prepare
- do, boil, mull, coddle, parch, parboil, dry, steam
Antonyms
- prepare
- neglect, ignore, overlook, forget
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. O.E.
coc, from V.L.
cocus "cook," from L.
coquus, from
coquere "to cook, prepare food, ripen, digest, turn over in the mind" from PIE base
*pekw- "to cook" (cf. Oscan
popina "kitchen," Skt.
pakvah "cooked," Gk.
peptein, Lith.
kepti "to bake, roast," O.C.S.
pecenu "roasted"). The noun was first; Gmc. languages had no one native term for all types of cooking. The verb is first attested c.1380; the figurative sense of "to manipulate, falsify, doctor" is from 1636.
Cookout is from 1947; to
cook with gas is 1930s jive talk.
"There is the proverb, the more cooks the worse potage." [Gascoigne, 1575]
2. Etymology tree
3. Proto-Indo-European *pekʷ-
4. Proto-Indo-European *-eti
5. Proto-Indo-European *pékʷeti
6. Proto-Italic *kʷekʷō
7. Latin *quoquō
8. Latin coquō
9. Proto-Indo-European *-ós
10. Proto-Indo-European *-ós
11. Proto-Indo-European *-ós
12. Proto-Indo-European *-ós
13. Proto-Indo-European *-os
14. Proto-Italic *-os
15. Old Latin -os
16. Latin -us
17. Latin coquus
18. Vulgar Latin *cocusbor.
19. Old English cōc
20. Middle English cook
21. Middle English coken
22. English cook
23. From Middle English coken, from the noun cook. In the slang sense of "proceed with some plan", coined by American rapper from California Lil B in 2010 and popularized in viral tweets and TikToks in mid-2022.
Verbs referencing "cook"
Spanish
cocer, Russian
печь, Bulgarian
пека, Greek, Ancient
πέσσω, Sanskrit
पचति, Ido koquar, Bavarian kocha, Danish
koge, German, Pennsylvania
koche, Cimbrian khochan, Cimbrian khòchan, Welsh
cwcio.
Sample Sentences
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The arrangements for cooking, washing of clothes, and so forth, are much upon the plan of those I have seen at home. Their mode of bestowing the prisoners at night (which is of general adoption ) differs from ours, and is both [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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And while Rachel and her children were busy making corn-cake, and cooking ham and chicken, and hurrying on the _et ceteras_ of the evening meal, George and his wife sat in their little room, with their arms folded about each other, in such talk as husband and wife have [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] steerage nearly a hundred passengers: a little world of poverty: and as we came to know individuals among them by sight, from looking down upon the deck where they took the air in the daytime, and cooked their food, and very often ate it too, we became curious to know their histories, and with what expectations they had gone out to America, and on what errands they were going home, and what their [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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We cook a variety of meals every day at home and eat them.
(Kaaduvetty)
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Oh, you can see the batter, the chicken's cooked all the way through. Wonderful.
(Tomorrow, You Pretty Ghost)
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No one at home today You have to put up with my cooking
(Magudam)