cookern.

Brit.

/ˈkʊkə/, U.S.

/ˈkʊkər/

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: cook v.¹, -er suffix¹.

Etymology: < cook v.¹ + -er suffix¹.

I. Senses relating to the heating of food or other substances.

1. A person who cooks a specified food or meal; a cook. Usually with of. Also figurative.

ΚΠ

1780 T. Francklin tr. Lucian Wks. II. 127 I am a true cooker of men, that is to say, I not only dress and prepare such vile eatables as these, but that great creature, called man, I kill, and cut in pieces, aye, and devour him too.

1788 R. Galloway Poems 121 If she be cooker of the kail, She'll gar us wonder.

1869 Contemp. Rev. Sept. 53 Homer is called a ‘cooker’ of early ballads.

1950 N.Y. Times Mag. 12 Feb. 40 Mother is no longer just a cooker of meals and maker of beds, but a fellow human being.

2007 S. Crosby I'm your Man v. 66 Papa's a good cooker.

a. Any of various vessels in which food is cooked.pressure cooker, rice cooker, slow cooker, etc.: see the first element.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > cooking vessel or pot > [noun]

pot?c1225

flesh-kit1575

plasma1616

vessel1719

pot-au-feu1792

cookpot1835

cooker1849

hook-pot1867

canaree1895

1849 Servants' Mag. 12 86 Deane's Potato Cooker is the best utensil we know for boiling potatoes in; it is much superior to the ordinary sauce-pan.

1887 Manch. City News 26 Feb. 4 The soup is prepared in a thirty-gallon ‘Cooker’.

2000 A. N. Braman Kids around World Cook! 78 (caption) A cast-iron cooker that can go in the oven or on top of the stove.

b. Chiefly British. An appliance used for cooking food, typically powered by gas or electricity, and incorporating burners or hotplates and one or more ovens; a cooking stove.Aga cooker, electric cooker, gas cooker, etc.: see the first element.

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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > stove or cooker > [noun]

range1423

buccan1611

fire-range1668

stew-stove1727

screw-range1772

stew-hole1780

cooking stove1796

range stove1803

cooking range1805

cookstove1820

kitchener1829

gas range1853

cooker1860

gas cooker1873

Soyer's stove1878

hay-box1885

blazer1889

machine oven1890

paraffin stove1891

primus1893

electric cooker1894

electric range1894

Yukon stove1898

fireless cooker1904

picnic stove1910

pressure stove1914

Tommy cooker1915

rangette1922

Aga1931

barbecue1931

Rayburn1947

sigri1949

jiko1973

1860 Sci. Amer. 28 Jan. 80/1 (heading) Devendorf's improved steam cooker.

1884 Internat. Health Exhib. Official Catal. 68/1 Gas Cookers in Work.

1920 Times 4 Feb. 17/5 There are pot racks near the cooker..and a service hatch with vent flue.

2015 T. Mehmood You're not Proper 138 A pot of daal was boiling on the cooker behind her.

3. A fruit or vegetable, such as an apple, pear, or potato, which cooks well or is best suited for cooking. Cf. eater n. 2.

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the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > [noun] > that cooks well

baker1651

boiler1812

cooker1860

1860 Cultivator Nov. 347/2 The Stone's Seedling is a round potato, medium size... Its skin denotes it to be a cooker.

1888 Daily News 17 Oct. 4/5 The best cropping apple..unequalled as a cooker.

1908 Gardeners' Chron. 1 Feb. 69/2 This [sc. a pear] is a very sweet fruit, and an excellent cooker.

2002 S. McKay Northern Protestants (new ed.) 127 The Armagh apples are ‘cookers.’ A farmer told me they are not suitable for cider. Too bitter.

a. A person who prepares a drug (esp. opium or heroin) for immediate use by heating it over a flame (see cook v.¹ 3a). In later use also: a person who manufactures an illegal drug (esp. methamphetamine) by chemical means (see cook v.¹ 3b).Frequently with modifying word specifying the type of drug being prepared or manufactured.

ΚΠ

1889 Med. Rec. (N.Y.) 14 Sept. 289/1 An expert cooker was..obtained, and the patient allowed six [opium] pills, of two grains each.

1897 Rocky Mountain News (Denver) 14 Jan. 7/3 Mi Gow, the terror of Chinatown, prince of opium cookers,..is in the city jail.

1985 San Diego Union-Tribune (Nexis) 1 Mar. a1 While many cookers build labs in remote areas of the county, where surveillance is hard and drug agents few, the factories are just as frequently found in highly populated residential areas.

2014 N. Butler Shotgun Lovesongs 148 You aren't one of those meth cookers, are you? I don't need any drug dealers around here.

b. An implement or device used in cooking drugs for immediate use (see cook v.¹ 3a). Now usually spec.: a container or receptacle, such as a bottle cap or spoon, in which a drug (esp. heroin) is prepared for injection by being heated and liquefied over a flame. Cf. cooking spoon n. 2.Recorded earliest in opium cooker (see quot. 1905).

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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > [noun] > equipment for taking drugs

outfit1881

cooker1905

quill1916

spike1934

work1934

joint1935

rig1935

the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > [noun] > preparing opium

cooking1886

cooker1905

the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > [noun] > equipment for taking drugs > equipment for taking opium

pipe1779

layout1869

hop toy1881

toy1881

yen hock1882

yen siang1882

hop-pipe1887

yen hop1901

cooker1905

cooking spoon1917

stem1925

1905 Our Young People July 12/2 He takes a small drop..of the thick brown stuff, and holds it by means of a metal rod—opium cooker—over the flame of a fish oil lamp or candle or whatever they may have to cook the opium with.

1960 J. Douglas Never trust Naked Bus Driver xxvi. 65 Never whip out an opium cooker and your pipe on a crowded bus... Someone is liable to jostle your cooker and put the flame out.

1989 N.Y. Times 24 Dec. (Late ed.) 19/1 Dr. Koester..found that 85 percent of the addicts in his study shared a spoon or bottle-cap ‘cooker’ to mix cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine or other intravenous drugs.

2020 Times (Nexis) 26 Feb. Discarded needles, a little metal cooker and a litter of plastic bags, the detritus of class-A drugs, litter a nearby lane.

II. Figurative senses.

†5. slang. Something which inflicts great damage on a person; something which finishes a person off. Cf. cook v.¹ 7. Obsolete.

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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [noun] > one who or that which destroys > that which ruins a person

finisher1817

cooker1845

1845 Cambr. Independent Press 8 Mar. ‘I'll give the b—— one more cooker.’ He then kicked and broke his hat.

1869 Pall Mall Gaz. 11 May 8/2 I expect this will be a cooker for me. I dare say he will be down there to-morrow to find out what I really have had to do with it.

6. colloquial. A person who fraudulently alters account books or other records. Cf. cook v.¹ 6.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > forgery, falsification > faking of documents > [noun] > forger, falsifier

false writer1440

falsifier1532

forger1552

falsary1579

pseudograph1623

pseudographer1645

doctorer1817

cooker1849

1849 Berrow's Worcester Jrnl. 4 Oct. Continental loan contractors are an hundred fold worse, even than cookers of railway accounts.

1875 S. W. Christophers From out the Deeps vii. 86 This noisy and fussy cooker of dividends is indeed the Tin Bucka.

2004 Vanity Fair June 133/2 Creative accounting suddenly carried higher penalties than violent crime—a middle-management book cooker..got 24 years.

Compounds

C1. General use as a modifier (in sense 2b), as in cooker hob, cooker ring, cooker top, etc.

ΚΠ

1903 Jrnl. Gas Lighting 5 May 306/2 The loose hot-plate bars are prevented from falling out when the cooker top is hinged right back.

1912 Gas World 21 Sept. 371/1 The cooker ring, etc., would not light, showing that there was air in the pipes.

1994 W. E. Lee & M. Rainforth Ceramic Microstructures i. 57 Glass ceramics are used commercially for..the easy cleaning tops of cooker hobs.

2004 Which? July 48/1 Our experts reckon the health grills won't spare you any more fat than using your cooker grill.

C2.

cooker hood n. a (typically metal) canopy above a cooker or hob (see sense 2b) that houses a mechanical fan to extract the vapour and smells from cooking.

ΚΠ

1961 Daily Mail 25 Feb. 5/8 A Ductless Cooker Hood..embodies a revolutionary method of air-conditioning the kitchen.

1999 BBC Good Food Apr. 134/2 (advt.) [The company]..are proud to launch their new ‘Designer Concept Group’ of special cooker hoods, featuring over 25 hi-tech, quality chimney style cooker hoods.

2014 50 Great Kitchen Design Ideas 83 An oversized extractor is a great way of adding visual interest... A large cooker hood can also work in a traditional kitchen.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	cooker
释义	cookern. Brit. /ˈkʊkə/, U.S. /ˈkʊkər/ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: cook v.¹, -er suffix¹. Etymology: < cook v.¹ + -er suffix¹. I. Senses relating to the heating of food or other substances. 1. A person who cooks a specified food or meal; a cook. Usually with of. Also figurative. ΚΠ 1780 T. Francklin tr. Lucian Wks. II. 127 I am a true cooker of men, that is to say, I not only dress and prepare such vile eatables as these, but that great creature, called man, I kill, and cut in pieces, aye, and devour him too. 1788 R. Galloway Poems 121 If she be cooker of the kail, She'll gar us wonder. 1869 Contemp. Rev. Sept. 53 Homer is called a ‘cooker’ of early ballads. 1950 N.Y. Times Mag. 12 Feb. 40 Mother is no longer just a cooker of meals and maker of beds, but a fellow human being. 2007 S. Crosby I'm your Man v. 66 Papa's a good cooker. 2. a. Any of various vessels in which food is cooked.pressure cooker, rice cooker, slow cooker, etc.: see the first element. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > cooking vessel or pot > [noun] pot?c1225 flesh-kit1575 plasma1616 vessel1719 pot-au-feu1792 cookpot1835 cooker1849 hook-pot1867 canaree1895 1849 Servants' Mag. 12 86 Deane's Potato Cooker is the best utensil we know for boiling potatoes in; it is much superior to the ordinary sauce-pan. 1887 Manch. City News 26 Feb. 4 The soup is prepared in a thirty-gallon ‘Cooker’. 2000 A. N. Braman Kids around World Cook! 78 (caption) A cast-iron cooker that can go in the oven or on top of the stove. b. Chiefly British. An appliance used for cooking food, typically powered by gas or electricity, and incorporating burners or hotplates and one or more ovens; a cooking stove.Aga cooker, electric cooker, gas cooker, etc.: see the first element. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > stove or cooker > [noun] range1423 buccan1611 fire-range1668 stew-stove1727 screw-range1772 stew-hole1780 cooking stove1796 range stove1803 cooking range1805 cookstove1820 kitchener1829 gas range1853 cooker1860 gas cooker1873 Soyer's stove1878 hay-box1885 blazer1889 machine oven1890 paraffin stove1891 primus1893 electric cooker1894 electric range1894 Yukon stove1898 fireless cooker1904 picnic stove1910 pressure stove1914 Tommy cooker1915 rangette1922 Aga1931 barbecue1931 Rayburn1947 sigri1949 jiko1973 1860 Sci. Amer. 28 Jan. 80/1 (heading) Devendorf's improved steam cooker. 1884 Internat. Health Exhib. Official Catal. 68/1 Gas Cookers in Work. 1920 Times 4 Feb. 17/5 There are pot racks near the cooker..and a service hatch with vent flue. 2015 T. Mehmood You're not Proper 138 A pot of daal was boiling on the cooker behind her. 3. A fruit or vegetable, such as an apple, pear, or potato, which cooks well or is best suited for cooking. Cf. eater n. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > [noun] > that cooks well baker1651 boiler1812 cooker1860 1860 Cultivator Nov. 347/2 The Stone's Seedling is a round potato, medium size... Its skin denotes it to be a cooker. 1888 Daily News 17 Oct. 4/5 The best cropping apple..unequalled as a cooker. 1908 Gardeners' Chron. 1 Feb. 69/2 This [sc. a pear] is a very sweet fruit, and an excellent cooker. 2002 S. McKay Northern Protestants (new ed.) 127 The Armagh apples are ‘cookers.’ A farmer told me they are not suitable for cider. Too bitter. 4. a. A person who prepares a drug (esp. opium or heroin) for immediate use by heating it over a flame (see cook v.¹ 3a). In later use also: a person who manufactures an illegal drug (esp. methamphetamine) by chemical means (see cook v.¹ 3b).Frequently with modifying word specifying the type of drug being prepared or manufactured. ΚΠ 1889 Med. Rec. (N.Y.) 14 Sept. 289/1 An expert cooker was..obtained, and the patient allowed six [opium] pills, of two grains each. 1897 Rocky Mountain News (Denver) 14 Jan. 7/3 Mi Gow, the terror of Chinatown, prince of opium cookers,..is in the city jail. 1985 San Diego Union-Tribune (Nexis) 1 Mar. a1 While many cookers build labs in remote areas of the county, where surveillance is hard and drug agents few, the factories are just as frequently found in highly populated residential areas. 2014 N. Butler Shotgun Lovesongs 148 You aren't one of those meth cookers, are you? I don't need any drug dealers around here. b. An implement or device used in cooking drugs for immediate use (see cook v.¹ 3a). Now usually spec.: a container or receptacle, such as a bottle cap or spoon, in which a drug (esp. heroin) is prepared for injection by being heated and liquefied over a flame. Cf. cooking spoon n. 2.Recorded earliest in opium cooker (see quot. 1905). ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > [noun] > equipment for taking drugs outfit1881 cooker1905 quill1916 spike1934 work1934 joint1935 rig1935 the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > [noun] > preparing opium cooking1886 cooker1905 the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > [noun] > equipment for taking drugs > equipment for taking opium pipe1779 layout1869 hop toy1881 toy1881 yen hock1882 yen siang1882 hop-pipe1887 yen hop1901 cooker1905 cooking spoon1917 stem1925 1905 Our Young People July 12/2 He takes a small drop..of the thick brown stuff, and holds it by means of a metal rod—opium cooker—over the flame of a fish oil lamp or candle or whatever they may have to cook the opium with. 1960 J. Douglas Never trust Naked Bus Driver xxvi. 65 Never whip out an opium cooker and your pipe on a crowded bus... Someone is liable to jostle your cooker and put the flame out. 1989 N.Y. Times 24 Dec. (Late ed.) 19/1 Dr. Koester..found that 85 percent of the addicts in his study shared a spoon or bottle-cap ‘cooker’ to mix cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine or other intravenous drugs. 2020 Times (Nexis) 26 Feb. Discarded needles, a little metal cooker and a litter of plastic bags, the detritus of class-A drugs, litter a nearby lane. II. Figurative senses. †5. slang. Something which inflicts great damage on a person; something which finishes a person off. Cf. cook v.¹ 7. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [noun] > one who or that which destroys > that which ruins a person finisher1817 cooker1845 1845 Cambr. Independent Press 8 Mar. ‘I'll give the b—— one more cooker.’ He then kicked and broke his hat. 1869 Pall Mall Gaz. 11 May 8/2 I expect this will be a cooker for me. I dare say he will be down there to-morrow to find out what I really have had to do with it. 6. colloquial. A person who fraudulently alters account books or other records. Cf. cook v.¹ 6. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > forgery, falsification > faking of documents > [noun] > forger, falsifier false writer1440 falsifier1532 forger1552 falsary1579 pseudograph1623 pseudographer1645 doctorer1817 cooker1849 1849 Berrow's Worcester Jrnl. 4 Oct. Continental loan contractors are an hundred fold worse, even than cookers of railway accounts. 1875 S. W. Christophers From out the Deeps vii. 86 This noisy and fussy cooker of dividends is indeed the Tin Bucka. 2004 Vanity Fair June 133/2 Creative accounting suddenly carried higher penalties than violent crime—a middle-management book cooker..got 24 years. Compounds C1. General use as a modifier (in sense 2b), as in cooker hob, cooker ring, cooker top, etc. ΚΠ 1903 Jrnl. Gas Lighting 5 May 306/2 The loose hot-plate bars are prevented from falling out when the cooker top is hinged right back. 1912 Gas World 21 Sept. 371/1 The cooker ring, etc., would not light, showing that there was air in the pipes. 1994 W. E. Lee & M. Rainforth Ceramic Microstructures i. 57 Glass ceramics are used commercially for..the easy cleaning tops of cooker hobs. 2004 Which? July 48/1 Our experts reckon the health grills won't spare you any more fat than using your cooker grill. C2. cooker hood n. a (typically metal) canopy above a cooker or hob (see sense 2b) that houses a mechanical fan to extract the vapour and smells from cooking. ΚΠ 1961 Daily Mail 25 Feb. 5/8 A Ductless Cooker Hood..embodies a revolutionary method of air-conditioning the kitchen. 1999 BBC Good Food Apr. 134/2 (advt.) [The company]..are proud to launch their new ‘Designer Concept Group’ of special cooker hoods, featuring over 25 hi-tech, quality chimney style cooker hoods. 2014 50 Great Kitchen Design Ideas 83 An oversized extractor is a great way of adding visual interest... A large cooker hood can also work in a traditional kitchen. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1780
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