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maid | cook |

As a noun maid

is maiden.

As a proper noun cook is

.

maid

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (dated, or, poetic) A girl or an unmarried young woman; maiden.
  • Note - maid is often used in the common or species names of flowering plants.
  • A female servant or cleaner (short for maidservant).
  • * , title=The Mirror and the Lamp
  • , chapter=2 citation , passage=She was a fat, round little woman, richly apparelled in velvet and lace, […]; and the way she laughed, cackling like a hen, the way she talked to the waiters and the maid , […]—all these unexpected phenomena impelled one to hysterical mirth, and made one class her with such immortally ludicrous types as Ally Sloper, the Widow Twankey, or Miss Moucher.}}
  • (archaic) A virgin of either gender.
  • * 1380+ , (Geoffrey Chaucer), (The Canterbury Tales)
  • Crist was a mayde and shapen as a man.
  • * 1601 , (William Shakespeare), (Twelfth Night)
  • You are betrothed both to a maid and man.

    Synonyms

    * (young female person) damsel, maiden * (female servant) handmaiden, lady-in-waiting, maidservant * (female cleaner) chambermaid (in a hotel), charlady (in a house), charwoman (in a house)

    See also

    * bridesmaid * French maid * maid of honour * mermaid * old maid

    Anagrams

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    cook

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl), from (etyl) . The verb is from (etyl) coken, from the noun.

    Noun

    (wikipedia cook) (en noun)
  • (cooking) A person who prepares food for a living.
  • (cooking) The head cook of a manor house
  • (slang) One who manufactures certain illegal drugs, especially meth.
  • Police found two meth cooks working in the illicit lab.
  • * Mel Bradshaw, Victim Impact
  • By late October, the pressure on the Dark Arrows' ecstasy cook had eased. Other suppliers had moved in with product.
  • * 2011 , Mackenzie Phillips, High on Arrival
  • Owsley Stanley was a pioneer LSD cook , and the Purple Owsley pill from his now-defunct lab was Dad's prized possession, a rare, potent, druggie collector's item, the alleged inspiration for the Hendrix song “Purple Haze.”
  • A fish, the European striped wrasse.
  • Synonyms
    * (food preparation for a living) chef
    Hyponyms
    * (food preparation for a living) cordon bleu
    Coordinate terms
    (food preparation for a living) * sous-chef * line cook * prep cook * chef (head cook of a manor house) * scullery maid * kitchen maid
    Derived terms
    * cookbook * cookery * cooking * cook the books * cook up * cookware

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To prepare (food) for eating by heating it, often by combining it with other ingredients.
  • I'm cooking bangers and mash.
  • To prepare (unspecified) food for eating by heating it, often by combining it with other ingredients.
  • He's in the kitchen, cooking .
  • To be being cooked.
  • The dinner is cooking on the stove.
  • (figuratively) To be uncomfortably hot.
  • Look at that poor dog shut up in that car on a day like today - it must be cooking in there.
  • (slang) To hold onto (a grenade) briefly after igniting the fuse, so that it explodes almost immediately after being thrown.
  • ''I always cook my frags, in case they try to grab one and throw it back.
  • To concoct or prepare.
  • * 2006 , Frank Spalding, Methamphetamine: The Dangers of Crystal Meth (page 47)
  • The process of cooking meth can leave residue on surfaces all over the home, exposing all of its occupants to the drug.
  • To tamper with or alter; to cook up.
  • * Addison
  • They all of them receive the same advices from abroad, and very often in the same words; but their way of cooking it is so different.
    Synonyms
    * (to be uncomfortably hot) bake, stew * (hold on to a grenade) cook off
    Hypernyms
    * (to prepare or plan something) concoct, contrive, devise, make up, plan, prepare
    Hyponyms
    * Troponyms : bake, barbecue, boil, braise, fry, grill, microwave, poach, roast, scramble, steam, stew * See also

    Etymology 2

    Imitative.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete, rare) To make the noise of the cuckoo.
  • * 1599 , The Silkworms
  • Constant cuckoos cook on every side.

    Etymology 3

    Unknown.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (UK, dialect, obsolete) To throw.
  • * Grose
  • Cook me that ball.
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