Cook

Cook
Cook Cook (k[=oo]k), v. i. [Of imitative origin.] To make the noise of the cuckoo. [Obs. or R.] [1913 Webster]

Constant cuckoos cook on every side. --The Silkworms (1599). [1913 Webster]


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  • COOK (R.) — Robin COOK 1931 1994 Robert William Arthur Cook est né à Londres le 12 juin 1931. Fils aîné d’un magnat du textile et d’une mère américaine d’ascendance polonaise, il passe son enfance dans la maison familiale londonienne, à quelques pas de Baker …   Encyclopédie Universelle

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  • cook — [kook] n. [ME cok < OE coc < VL cocus < L coquus < coquere, to cook < IE base * pekw , to cook > Gr peptein, Sans pácate, (he) cooks, OE afigen, fried] a person who prepares food for eating vt. [ME coken < the n.] 1. to… …   English World dictionary

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