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cookee

noun

Etymology

From cook + -ee (diminutive suffix). Sense of "cook's helper" may be a blend of cook + rookie, or cook + trainee, etc.

  1. borrowed from cocō — “to cook”
  2. inherited from *kokōn✻ — “to cook”
  3. inherited from *pekʷ-✻ — “to cook, become ripe”
  4. derived from cocus
  5. inherited from cōc — “a cook”
  6. inherited from cook
  7. formed as cookee — “cook + -ee”

Definitions

  1. A female cook.

    • Cookee did not wish to entertain her illustrious friend in a vulgar way, though he was so hungry he could have taken his meal off kitchen stuff in a dog kennel.

  2. A cook's helper, especially in a logging camp.

    • After about an hour and a half he broke out of the trees into a clearing, and in the clearing was a logging camp, and sitting on a block of wood in front of the cook-shack was a bald-headed cookee peeling potatoes.
    • The cook's assistant, who was called the cookee, made a roaring fire in the stove. As soon as the fire was going strong, the cookee woke up the teamsters.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA